4-4 Maya St. Sta.

Maria Village, Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga

Contact Number: 0919-627-9128 / 0995-055-8114

MONTHLY EXAM – OCTOBER

ENGLISH 7
Name:__________________________________________ Year/Section: __________________________________
General directions: Read each statement carefully and ALWAYS CHECK YOUR
SPELLING. Use ballpen in answering the test papers. GOD BLESS!
I. Directions: Determine the listening strategy to be used in the given
situation. Write T-D if top-down listening strategy should be used and B-U
if bottom-up listening strategy.
____________1. Berlin was carefully listening on the lyrics of a song she heard for the
first time so she would be able to write an interpretation of what the song is all
about.
___________2. The driver listened to the radio regarding road protocols, however all
he is concerned of is to specifically know the mandate regarding the number of
passengers to fit in every vehicle.
___________3. Johnny was listening to a tape-recorded conversation and should
identify the place where it happened.
___________4. Students listened to some utterances and were asked to describe the
emotional reaction they heard.
___________5. Audrey’s teacher asked them to identify the characters as well as the
setting of the short audio recorded story.
___________6. As someone reads the story “The Wedding Dance”, you are taking
down notes to help you in summarizing the story.
___________7. You listen to a song for the first time. You pay careful attention to the
song itself, the beat, the instruments, the lyrics and the melody to decide if you
like it or not.
___________8. It happens when we use background knowledge to make sense of
what we are listening to.
___________9. It happens when we understand language sound by sound or word by
word, with less use of background knowledge.
___________10.It includes listening for main idea, predicting and drawing inferences.

II. Directions: Write TRUE if the statement about listening is correct and write
FALSE if the statement is incorrect.
______________1. If you are facing the person speaking, you're always actively
listening.
______________2. Even if you are silent while someone else speaks, you might not be
actively listening.
______________3. Listening means to pay attention to sound and be alerted to catch
an expected sound.
______________4. Hearing is to apprehend by the ear while listening is to gain
knowledge of by hearing.
______________5. Active listening skills help you to communicate your ideas and
knowledge more effectively.
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Contact Number: 0919-627-9128 / 0995-055-8114

III. Fill in the missing words from the listening text. Choose the appropriate
word to be used in each blank from the word bank. Write the answer in your
paper.
untrapped sweet shades
sidewalk front tangible
running ran covered
cheek

THE CORNER STORE

By Eudora Welty
Our Little Store rose right up from the ____________; standing in a street of family houses, it
alone hadn’t any yard in ___________, any tree or flower bed. It was a plain frame building ___________
over with brick. Above the door, a little railed porch ____________ across on an upstairs level and four
windows with ____________ were looking out. But I didn’t catch on to those. ___________ in out of the sun,
you met what seemed total obscurity inside. There were almost ____________smells- licorice recently
sucked in a child’s ____________, dill pickle brine I that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail
across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet crooker sacks and
slammed into the icebox with its __________ butter at the door, and perhaps the smell of still _____________
mice.

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

Prepared by: Mrs. Normina Leah F. Garcia

Subject Teacher – ENGLISH 7