1.

While reading a paragraph in a nonfiction text, a remedial student comes to an unfamiliar

word. The student read the complete sentence containing the word and figures out that the
unfamiliar word is a verb. Which of the following cuing systems is the remedial student primarily
using to construct meaning?
A. Semantic
B. Phonetic
C. Pragmatic
D. Syntactic

2. Which of the following theoretical principles may require a teacher to first talk about the
author, and the tradition to which the literary text belongs?
A. Enhance the text.
C. Feed the text.
B. Read the text.
D. Enjoy the text.

3. Which of the following is characteristic of the Romantic Period as shown in Coleridge’s

“Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan”, and Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”?
A. Romantics gave emphasis on imagination and emotion.
B. Romantics gave emphasis on the elements of nature
C. Romantics emphasized primal feeling and simplicity.
D. Romantics emphasized strange and faraway places.

4. In which of the following ways did the eighteenth-century poets Robert Fergusson, Allan
Ramsay, and Robert Burns influence the development of the literature of Great Britain?
A. Their revival of ancient Roman verse forms contributed to a renewed public demand in
England for classical literature.
B. Their use of both English and Lowland Scots dialect revealed the poetic qualities inherent in
actual colloquial speech.
C. Their satiric verses criticizing the English monarchy revealed the power of poetry as a form of
political protest.
D. Their explorations of themes from Nordic folklore led Irish and Welsh writers to draw on their
own folklore for ideas.

5. Which method does a teacher use when she emphasizes the integration rather than
separation of skills and allows the language functions and forms to interplay.
A. direct
C. communicative
B. immersion
D. audio-lingual

6. Which would you suggest to your student journalist to help him/her in writing a quote story?
A. Write the story side by side its mother story.
B. Write a summarizing lead in any appropriate form.
C. Make sure to give first brief news of the event.
D. Make the summary arrangement short.
7. What is shown in the following? “The man saw the cow.” 1. the man (subject) 1.1. the (article)
1.2. man (noun) 2. saw the cow (predicate) 2.1. saw (verb) 2.2. the cow (object) 2.2.1. the
(article) 2.2.2. cow (noun)
A. conjugating
C. inflecting
B. diagraming
D. parsing

8. In teaching Shakespeare’s tragedies to Grade-9 students, the following ideas may be given
emphasis EXCEPT:
A. casually related events that lead this character to disaster, at least partly through his or her
flaw
B. an experience of pity, fear, and awe for the audience
C. a central character of high rank and personal quality, yet with a tragic flaw or weakness
D. a central character may not necessarily be an important person in the society for as long as
he/she is brave

9. Which of the following is characteristic of the Romantic Period as shown in Coleridge’s

“Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan”, and Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”?
A. Romantics emphasized strange and faraway places.
B. Romantics emphasized primal feeling and simplicity.
C. Romantics gave emphasis on the elements of nature
D. Romantics gave emphasis on imagination and emotion.

10. Which process do you teach your students when you ask them to analyze the title of the
story and the illustrations to help them initially grasp the meaning of a text?
A. foreshadowing
B. predicting
C. previewing
D. critiquing

11. The following sentences show “syntactic ambiguity” EXCEPT

A. I talked to my English literature teacher.
C. They are the wealthy men and women in our society.
B. Nicole saw the people with binoculars.
D. We challenge his beliefs about religion

12. Who is described in the lines below?

And on the slope above the sea
The hard-handed peasants go their round
Turning the soil, blind to the body Ambitious and viable, whose pride
Will leave no trace in the quenching tide.
A. Icarus
B. Achilles
C. Priam
D. Ulysses
13. You are to prepare an English intervention program for your students. Which language
deficiency do you consider in order to make your program useful?
A. Skill in using the language for learning
C. Superior language competencies
B. Lack of basic understanding of the language
D. Lack of appreciation of language

14. What is the literary theory or approach that the teacher is using as her basis for teaching a
poem using the following written objectives?
I. Determine the figures of speech used to convey meaning.
II. Identify the symbols used in the poem.
III. Explain the theme of the poem.
A. American New Criticism
C. Structuralist Literary Theory
B. Marxist Literary Theory
D. Reader Response Criticism

15. Teacher Fely imposes copious rules and paradigms to students rather than letting them
discover the rules. She views language learning as ____________________.
A. inductive
B. intrusive
C. passive
D. deductive

16. Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of using the results of an
informal reading inventory to plan reading instruction?
A. Measuring each student’s individual progress toward acquiring and applying specific reading
skills
B. Determining the independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels for each student
C. Discovering how each student’s reading proficiency compares to the national average for
students at the same grade level
D. Evaluating each student’s attainment of reading proficiency benchmarks described in the
state standards

17. In their works, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift frequently criticized the ____.
A. aristocrats’ polished manners or behaviors
B. lack of social and educational reforms or changes
C. strong spiritualism of the English people
D. corrupt politics and growing materialism of the time

18. In the K-12 curriculum, to which does the basic education refer?
A. 7 years of primary education, 4 years of junior high school and 2 years of senior high school
B. 6 years of primary education, 4 years of junior high school and 2 years of senior high school
C. 6 years of primary education, 2 years of junior high school and 4 years of senior high school
D. 6 years of primary school and 4 years of junior high school

19. Which of the following words are inflected?

I. singing III. nasal V. angry
II. stolen IV. neighborhood VI. oxen
A. I, II, III, IV, V and VI
C. I, III, IV, and V only
B. I, II and VI only
D. I, II, IV and VI only

20. Which phonetics requires the tools of physics to study the nature of sound waves produced
in human language?
A. Articulatory
C. Acoustic
B. Aesthetic
D. Auditory

21. Which of the following concepts in grammar is shown in the following definition of noun?
“Noun in a sentence occurs before the verb phrase; after a transitive verb; after a linking verb;
after a preposition; and after another noun or noun phrase.
A. noun placement
C. grammatical pattern
B. distribution
D. syntax

22. What issue is pointed out in the following sentence? “The movie ends with two scenes that
contains clue of the real cause of the main character’s failure to amass great wealth.
A. Determiner-noun agreement
C. Predeterminer-noun agreement
B. Pronoun-antecedent agreement
D. Subject-verb agreement

23. Which refers to the instructional strategies that make up the art or science of knowledge?
A. Psychology
C. Pedagogy
B. Methodology
D. Andragogy

24. You are following the task-based syllabus. Which learning activities do you apply?
A. Exercises following process writing
C. Recalling supporting details
B. Identifying text types
D. Writing notes, memos, reports

25. The poet can be satirical, expressing himself with wit and force.
Interpret: “Which is the basest creature, man or beast? Birds feed on birds, beasts on each
other prey; but savage man alone does man betray.”
A. Man is just like animals
C. Man’s inhumanity to his kind
B. Man is the most beastly of animals
D. Man is proven by his actions

26. Which sentence has an adjective clause?

A. The victim who allegedly salvaged
B. The victim who allegedly salvaged is a freshman.
C. They found the salvaged victim in an abandoned building.
D. They were called to identify the salvaged victim.

27. If intervention instruction in English is to be redeveloped, which among the variable will be
regarded “non-negotiable”?
A. Real language used for real communication
B. Listening comprehension is recognized as a fundamental skill
C. Listening and reading as non- passive and very complex receptive processes
D. Individual learners and individualities of learning

28. Study the given sentences. The epidemic BROKE OUT. The OUTBREAK of the epidemic
was alarming. The noun outbreak is formed by the process of
A. Reversal
C. Conversion
B. Inversion
D. Temporal

29. In the old English poem, “Dream of the Rood” pagan and Christian images were used to
depict the Christian teachings. Which is NOT a part of the pagan imagery?
A. Symbol of true
C. Crucifixion as a battle
B. Death of the Hero
D. Christ as a Warriors

30. Which of the following statements has a noun clause?

A. My mother told me that you knew where to find the best caterer in town.
B. The much-awaited performance which was postponed several times finally came.
C. Mrs. Romero is the speech trainer who first taught me how to give a good impromptu speech.
D. When do you expect to meet the new members of our dance troupe?

31. Which of the following is a component of planning and carrying out a good read-aloud
lesson for your junior high schools?
A. Avoid facilitating a discussion of a text.
C. Modelling fluent reading by students
B. Preview and practice the text.
D. Reading without props and animations.

32. In Langston Hughe’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, the African persona mentioned
the great rivers of Asia and Africa to talk about the culture heritage and history of the African
people. Why is the use of this imagery effective?
A. The famed Tigris and Euphrates rivers are located in Central Asia.
B. Ancient civilization flourished near bodies of water like the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates.
C. The famous Nile and Congo rivers are located in Africa.
D. The earth’s surface is composed of 70% water and there are a lot of bodies of water in Africa
and Asia.

33. The underlined verbs in the following sentences are classified as.
The time is now.
The world became flesh.
We remain silent.
A. Intransitive
C. Transitive
B. Reflexive
D. Ascriptive

34. Which of the following is the true description of an auxiliary verb?

A. It is used to complete the verb phrase in certain constructions such as the emphatic, the
negative, the passive, or the perfect and progressive aspects.
B. It occurs before the main verb, and denotes modification of the basic meaning of the main
verb.
C. It belongs to several classifications of verbs. It may take an impersonal it as a subject.
D. It is followed by noun or noun phrase functioning as its direct object.

35. What preferred tense is used for “stage directions and synopses?
A. Present
C. Future
B. Past
D. Present perfect

36. All of the following contains verbal EXCEPT

A. Satisfied, the producer began paying the artist.
B. Having recovered her voice, the soprano hit her top notes well.
C. Your mom arrived after you had gone.
D. To see is to believe.

37. What type of mood is indicated in this sentence: “How did you come to know about that
tragic event?”
A. Indicative
C. Imperative
B. Subjunctive
D. Directive

38. Which of the following adjective phrases is syntactically correct?

A. The most unique
C. The very much unique
B. Nearly unique
D. Less unique

39. Which sentence has ditransitive verb?

A. Those guys are highly intelligent group of engineers.
B. Those mean boys tried to throw a rock through our windows.
C. Nobody will believe a ruffian like you.
D. My mother gave me this cardigan for Christmas.

40. All of the following contain operator verbs EXCEPT

A. My father approves your marriage proposal.
B. My father won’t approve your marriage proposal.
C. Will your father approve my marriage proposal?
D. Your father approved my marriage proposal, won’t he?

41. Each person’s vocabulary is a continuum. On the one end of the continuum are words the
person knows very well and for which he has a full rich understanding of their various meaning.
On the other end of the continuum are
A. Words he enjoys using regularly.
B. New words that he has learned both the spelling and meaning for
C. Words he doesn’t recognize
D. Words he can recognize and figure out the meaning of based on context.

42. The President himself promised to stop the war. The underlined word is pronoun.
A. An interrogative
C. A reflexive
B. An intensive
D. A reciprocal

43. The question “Is he coming?” has a ______ intonation.

A. Falling
C. Rising
B. Sustained
D. Melodic

44. Which of the following sentences does NOT observe correct subject-verb agreement?
A. The mayor as well as his brothers is going to prison.
B. Neither of the two traffic lights is working.
C. My assets were wiped out in the depression.
D. Neither the plates nor the serving bowl go on that shelf.

45. The pronoun in this sentence “When she arrived, Suad was surprised to find her apartment
door open” is
A. Cataphoric
B. Anaphoric
C. Deitic
D. Coreferential

46. Which hypothesis of Krashen’s Monitor Model proposes that when learners are exposed to
grammatical features a little beyond their current (i.e., I + 1), those features are “acquired”.
Acquisition results from comprehensible input, which is made understandable with the help
provided by the context.
A. Acquisition/learning hypothesis
C. Natural order hypothesis
B. Input hypothesis
D. Affective filter hypothesis

47. All of the following are implications of Krashen’s Monitor Model EXCEPT
A. Teachers should correct errors during the time they are committed as error correction is
valuable.
B. Teachers should not insist on learners conversing before they feel comfortable in doing so.
C. Teachers should not expect learners to learn “late structures” such as third-person singular
early.
D. Teachers consider grammatical teaching is of limited value.

48. They view the language as a system of related elements or “building blocks” for the
encoding of meaning, the elements being phonemes (sounds), morphemes (words), tagmemes
(phrases/sentences/clauses).
A. Structuralists
C. Functionalists
B. Transformationalists
D. Interactionalists

49. Which of the following is a view of an interactionist?

A. Language is primarily vocal.
B. Language is creative.
C. Language emphasizes the meaning and functions rather than the structures.
D. Language is a vehicle for establishing interpersonal relationships.

50. Which theory on language teaching has given birth to the methods that are learner-
centered, allowing learners to work in pairs or groups in information gap tasks and problem-
solving activities where such communication strategies as information sharing, negotiation of
meaning, and interaction are used?
A. Structuralism
C. Cognitivism
B. Behaviorism
D. Functionalism

51. It is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words combine to form phrases, phrases
combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin to make sentences.
A. Morphology
C. Semantics
B. Syntax
D. Pragmatics
52. Which of the following sounds are produced by bringing the articulators near each other
such that the flow of air is impeded but not completely blocked? The airflow through the narrow
opening creates friction.
A. p,b,t,d,k,g
C. m,n,K
B. f,v,r,ð,s,z,š,ž,h
D. l,r

53. What is illustrated in the following example? In English, the statement “Marian is a linguist”
ends with a fall in pitch, while as a question, “Marian is a linguist?” the pitch goes up.
A. Stress
C. Intonation
B. Juncture
D. Suprasegmentals

54. The words “gym, mike, and TV” are formed through
A. Clipping
C. Root creation
B. Back formation
D. Compounding

55. What morphophonemic process is involved in which units that occur in some context are
“lost” in other such as “L I b r y “instead of “l I b r a r y”?
A. Assimilation
C. Epenthesis
B. Dissimilation
D. Metathesis

56. Which syntactic structure is shown in the following examples?

Responsible officers trusted friend
A. Prediction
C. Modification
B. Complementation
D. Coordination

57. What category of illocutionary act is demonstrated in the following example?

Recession will worsen in Europe in the next five years.
A. representative
C. directive
B. commissive
D. expressive

58. What conversation maxim seems to have been violated in the following example?
A: How was the LET?
B: Well, the proctor is my former college professor.
A. Maxim of quantity
C. Maxim of relation
B. Maxim of quality
D. Maxim of manner

59. This type of language is used to describe the kind of language a learner uses at a given
time, that is, his version of a given language, which deviates in certain ways from the language
of a mature speaker.
A. Dialect
C. Holophrastic speech
B. Native language
D. Interlanguage

60. “Give me a cup of blended coffee,” this sentence is a / an act

A. Explicit locutionary
C. Direct illocutionary
B. Indirect illocutionary
D. Implied locutionary

61. How is the following sentence labeled according to word usage?

“I deeply apologize for delivery delay”
A. Slang
C. Formal
B. Contraction
D. Faulty

62. If you want your lesson on the story of “Biag ni Lam-ang” interesting and to establish a
connection to your students’ personal lives, which do you do?
A. Make the students translate major events in their home language
B. Encourage them to find characters of other stories similarly situated to Lam-Ang’s life
C. Let them compose their own climax of the story
D. Have the students make a caricature of Lam-Ang’s attributes as seen today.

63. Central to the teaching of Hinduism is karma which includes actions, intentions and
consequences. This is a recurring theme in Indian literature like “Sakuntala”. Karma revealed
itself in this play when
A. Bharata took Dushyanta to his mother Sakuntala.
B. A fisherman found a ring in the fish belly
C. Durvasa cursed Sakuntala from failing to greet him properly
D. Dushyanta failed to recognize Sakuntala as his wife

64. In the Egyptian short story, “The Two Brothers”, what were the names of the two brothers?
A. Rama and Sita C. Ntio and Ki
B. Anpu and Bata D. Dianqu and Sulta

65. If you ask a translator to translate a text at the same time to verbalize his/her thoughts as
much as possible, which method do you use?
A. Thought processing C. Read aloud
B. Cognitive processing D. Think aloud
66. Reading fluency has three elements. Which is one of them?
A. Automaticity C. Accuracy
B. Vocabulary D. Comprehension

67. Which type of activity is highlighted in the following examples? Puppets, board games,
picture dictation, speed dating, interviews
A. Interactive C. Communicative
B. Generative D. Conversation games

68. What is the embedded clause in the sentence: “That the farmer applied health-threatening
pesticides to his farm crops shocked the community?”
A. It shocked the farmer C. It shocked the community
B. The news shocked the farmer D. The community is in disbelief

69. A good language education program should give equal importance to meaning and _____
from the beginning.
A. Fluency C. Speaking
B. Accuracy D. Expression

70. Which teaching activities would be most appropriate if the objective of teaching speaking is
the improvement of fluency?
I. Delivering speeches, group discussions, negotiations and debates, interviews and meetings,
etc.
II. Working on specific vowels, troublesome consonants, exercises on sounds not present in the
first language, etc.
III. Working on reductions e.g. want to – wanna, word stress, intonation patterns, etc.
A. I only C. I and II
B. I, II, III D. II and III

71. When teaching speaking to learners of English as a second language (ESL), the specific
learning needs that need to be addressed always are
A. Improving their fluency, their pronunciation, and their enunciation.
B. Exposing them to native speakers and giving them plenty of practice.
C. Teaching them to speak the target language.
D. Understanding the movement and location of mouth and tongue when making sounds.

72. Which work is shown in the following examples? “The mother affirms her child’s correct
reading of words (e.g. ‘yeah’), and corrects him when he reads a word wrongly (e.g. ‘not billow’).
A. Skinner’s Reinforcement C. Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning
B. Stephen Krashen’s Monitor Model D. Jerome Brunner’s Spiral Teaching

73. Which of the following language teaching methods is NOT learner-centered in approach?
A. Content-based instruction C. Cooperative learning
B. Task-ask language Teaching D. Grammar Translation Method

74. What is another term for prolepsis which is a‘ scene that temporarily takes the narrative
forward in time from the correct point of the story in literature, film, television and other media?
A. Flashback C. Foreshadowing
B. Flashforward D. Telescoping

75. In a novel or a short story, this is the point of view assumed by the narrator from which he is
able to tell everything that happens in the story. This is known as
A. Eyewitness C. First person
B. Omniscient D. Consciousness

76. Complete the analogy.

Phoneme: the single unit of sound Morpheme: _______
A. The smallest unit of measuring C. The simplest unit of an idea
B. The most important element D. The shortest phrase

77. Pronouns and prepositions are open word classes while nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are
closed word classes?
A. False B. Partly true C. True D. Partly false

78. Which does NOT belong to the group?

A. Modules B. Show and Tell C. Realia D. Software

79. In the commonest pattern for forming nouns, the phrasal verb remains unchanged, except
that in speech.
A. The second element is unstressed C. The first element is unstressed
B. The second element is new stressed D. The first element is new stressed

80. In Jane Austen’s “Pride and prejudice”, why is Mrs. Bennet so determined to arrange good
marriage for her five daughters?
Because
A. The law dictates that only a son can inherit the Bennet family fortune.
B. She believes her daughters deserve to have good fortune.
C. Marrying them off to good families means financial security for them.
D. She wants all her daughters to be happy.

81. Which of the following DOES NOT illustrate the arbitrariness of language?
A. Answers that are considered appropriate responses to complements vary across cultures.
B. Language is capable of representing things that are partially or temporarily distant.
C. Through time, language users will see the evolution of the denotation or connotation of an
expression.
D. A community can construct meaning other than that which the dictionary gives.

82. Which of the Japanese poems consist of five lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including at least one
pause?
A. Renga B. Choka C. Hokku D. Tanka
83. Which method does Teacher May use when she instructs her students not to use the native
language and instead tells them
to figure out the grammar rules for themselves as they are encouraged to speak the target
language at all times?
A. Communicative C. Direct
B. Immersion D. Audio-lingual

84. When you teach students to use words instead of those with distasteful or offensive effect
like the “grim-reaper” for death or
“crossing over” for dying, you are teaching a lesson on.
A. Existentialism C. Localization
B. Euphemism D. Contextualization

85. Who is considered as the herald and messenger of the Olympian Gods?
A. Prometheus B. Procrustes C. Hermes D. Zeus

86. The speaker should change the language according to the needs of a listener or based on
the demand of the situation like the
given example EXCEPT for
A. Sophisticating the language by using high level terminologies for learners.
B. Liking differently to a baby that to an adult
C. Speaking differently in a classroom that or the playground
D. Giving background information to an unfamiliar listener

87. Which among the following DOES NOT represent the concept of washback?
A. A test may influence what teachers teach and how they teach their students.
B. The extent to which the introduction and use of a test influence language learners
C. What is tested does not affect what is taught.
D. It is the connection between testing and learning.

88. “Poetry should glorify God, promote religious values, enlighten readers and help people to
become Christians.”Whose
literary theory is this?
A. Alexander Pope C. John Milton
B. Ben Johnson D. Francis Bacon

89. Which figure of speech is used in the given example, “What happens to a dream deferred,
does it dry up like a raisin in the
sun?
A. Metaphor C. Simile
B. Hyperbole D. Personification

90. How many phrases are there in the given sentence?

Villagers in the mining area were prohibited to go back to their homes covered by sticky mud.
A. 4 B. 5 C. 2 D. 3

91. Which of the following are NOT characteristics of a formalist criticism?

A. It is independent if the writer’s background. C. It is extrinsic in essence.
B. Criticism is a description of its object. D. Criticism is concentrated on the work itself.

92. The”masthead” refers to the

A. Head of the newspaper publisher C. Name of the newspaper
B. Leading reporter of the newspaper D. Editorial of the newspaper

93. Which literary movement considers nature as its subject, being the source of enjoyment and
knowledge?
A. Renaissance C. Realism
B. Naturalism D. Romanticism

94. Teacher Reyes wants students to use a metacognitive strategy before listening to text.
Which should her students do?
A. Determine the range of difficulty of the text. C. Find out the author’s purpose
B. Check for difficult words. D. Set a purpose for listening

95. The last step in the application of Situational Language Teaching is .

A. Elicitation C. Correction
B. Question-answer drilling D. Substitution drilling

96. Which translation problem is VERY evident in the given sentence? “Mabuti and panahon sa
aking palagay.”
A. Linear dislocation C. Syntactic dislocation
B. Extra position D. Nominalization

97. What sound device is used in “When I’m Dead, my Dearest”?

A. Alliteration B. Assonance C. Consonance D. Metonymy

98. Ms. Venus asked the students to fill in the blanks with the correct pronoun? What test did
she use?
A. Cloze B. C-Cloze C. Hot Spot D. Text Numeric

99. Which would be the possible reason if the correlations of a language test are generally
significant to the highest level (99%),
except for the speaking test?
A. The speaking test is not valid.
B. The speaking test is not reliable
C. The speaking test is not consistent with the other parts of the test.
D. The speaking does not differentiate between the most able and the least able takers.

100. The Grade 10 teachers of Sta. Elena High School are evaluating the language tests
prepared by the Grade 10 teachers of
Colegio de San Agustin. Specifically, the teachers are evaluating the utility, equity, and
appropriateness of the assessment
techniques used. Which stage is present in the given scenario?
A. Evaluation B. Reflection C. Preparation D. Assessment
101. Mrs. Yoly wants to measure her Grade 12 students’ ability against the learning objectives
of specific topics in their Oral Communication class. Which of the following test should she give?
A. Assessment test C. Norm-referenced test
B. Discrete-point test D. Criterion-referenced test
102. Ms. Jerica prepares a language task that forces on recognizing connotative meanings of
words, correctly processing
dictation, and making inferences. Which domain of learning as identified in Bloom’s Revised
Cognitive Taxonomy does Ms.
Jerica want to address?
A. Knowledge C. Synthesis
B. Analysis D. Comprehension

103. Sheila wants to assess Lilibeth’s conversational ability in English, so she gave her a list of
words to read. The assessment
would yield to _____.
A. A valid result C. A reliable result
B. An invalid result D. An unreliable result

104. Mr. Lozada prepared a cloze test that is concerned primarily with meaning and the total
communicative effect of discourse.
He made sure that the test involves functional language but not its use. Which approach did he
consider in constructing
given instruction?
A. Structural Approach C. Communicative Approach
B. Integrative Approach D. Essay-Translation Approach

105. Which of the ff. parts of a campus paper answers the who, what, when, where and how of
current events?
A. News article C. Feature article
B. Sports article D. Editorial

106. Which is TRUE about the lead of a new article?

A. It is written at the last part of the article.
B. It provides the introduction of the whole story.
C. It summarizes the story and includes many of the basic facts.
D. The lead will guide readers throughout the reading of the whole article.

107. In the modes of Language of Interpretation, which among the ff. is where the person
interprets the text to a language common
to every interpreter who in turn renders the message to his/her respective target language?
A. Relay C. Consecutive interpretation
B. Simultaneous D. Whispered

108. Which of the ff. is an ellipsis that answers the question, “Does Remy sing while she
walks?”
A. No C. No, but I do.
B. Yes, she does. D. Yes, she does it to irritate us, perhaps.

109. Which is the theme in the sentence “My joining the English Enhancement Program will
absolutely help me?”
A. will help
B. will absolutely help me
C. the English Enhancement Program
D. my joining the English Enhancement Program

110. Which of the ff. sentences has a predicated theme?

A. Your faith gave me strength. C. What gave me strength is your faith
B. I was given strength by your faith. D. It is your faith that gave me strength.

111. What problem do you encounter when you could NOT find the exact term or word to use in
English such as the different kinds
of banana (saging na saba, senyorita, latundan, etc.)?
A. The source and target languages make different distinct in meaning.
B. The target language lacks hyponym.
C. The source-language word is semantically complex.
D. The target language lack superordinate.

112. The characteristics of effective speech based on Cicero’s canons of rhetoric include
invention, disposition, elocution,
pronunciation and _________.
A. Voice C. Memory
B. Grammar D. Arrangement

113. Which characteristics of an effective speech refers to the arrangement and organization of
materials?
A. Invention C. Disposition
B. Elocution D. Pronunciation

114. Which of the ff. does NOT belong to memorization as a type of speech delivery?
A. The speaker writes the manuscript for official records.
B. Manuscript delivery is reading the text word for word.
C. The speaker writes the manuscript as reference during the speech.
D. The use of eye contact and facial expression helps bring personality to this type of delivery.

115. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 has five pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables per line.
What is the measure of poetry?
A. Heptasyllabic quatrain C. Iambic pentameter
B. Octosyllabic quatrain D. Iambic heptameter

116. Which of the ff. is TRUE about Imagism, a 20th movement in poetry? Imagism focuses on
the ________.
A. Statement more than the central image C. Balance of both central image and statement
B. Central image more than the statement D. Format of the poetry more than the statement

117. Mrs. Alolor asked her students to memorize the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer and
instructed them to recite it in front of the
class. Which of the following principles is applied in the given scenario?
A. Automaticity C. Strategic Investment
B. Rote Learning D. Intrinsic Motivation

118. Which of the ff sets of words exemplifies diphthongs?

A. Reduce, reuse, start C. Teach, speak, listen
B. Breakfast, tea, cheese D. Cry, break, down

119. Which of the following BEST describes the formation process called conversion?
A. It is the invention of a new word
B. It is shortening a word to by deleting one or more syllable
C. It is the process of forming a new word by joining two or more words
D. It is the process of designating an existing word to a new syntactic category

120. How many morphemes are in the words crocodile?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

121. What kind of affix is present in the word misunderstanding?

A. Infix C. Prefix
B. Circumfix D. Suffix

122. A second language learner of English says “estatue” for statue and “filum” for film. What
morphophonemic process is
involved in the given scenario where a vowel is added at the beginning of the word of between
the sounds?
A. Assimilation C. Epenthesis
B. Elision D. Vowel lengthening

123. Which of the following syntactic structures contains equivalent grammatical units which are
often joined by a coordinating conjunction such as in lost and found?
A. Structure of Complementation C. Structure of Modification
B. Structure of Coordination D. Structure of Predication

124. Which of the ff BEST describes the structure of a periodic sentence?

A. It is composed on of phrases and dependent clauses
B. It has two clauses which are similar in length and word order
C. It begins with the main independent clause followed by phrases and dependent clauses
D. It begins with phrases or dependent clauses and ends with the main independent clause

125. Which word pair exemplifies hyponymy?

A. Pasta – Spaghetti C. Fly (insect) – Fly (zipper)
B. Beauty – Pulchritude D. Benevolent – Malevolent

126. Some senior high school students almost failed the exam in English. What is the sense
property in the given statement?
A. Analytic C. Synthetic
B. Contradictory D. Thematic
127. In a basketball event, only the officiating referee can call out infractions of rules and decide
penalties. Anyone else can shout
a “foul” but only the referee has the official word. Which felicity condition is evident in the given
speech act?
A. Essential Condition C. Propositional content Condition
B. Preparatory Condition D. Sincerity Condition

128. According to Stephen Krashen’s Natural Order Hypothesis, which are the first grammatical
morphemes that are acquired by
an average second language learner of English?
A. Irregular past tense form of verb
B. Auxiliary form of verb and articles (a and the)
C. Regular past tense, possessives, and singular form of verb
D. Progressive form of verb, plural form of noun, and copula (“to be”)

129. Which of the following is an objective of the Grammar-Translation Method in language

teaching? It is to learn the target language _______.
A. Through drills and repetition
B. In order to read its literature
C. By engaging in authentic language use
D. Through natural communication rather than formal grammar study

130. Who among the following language learners exemplifies sociolinguistic competence?
A. Edward who knows how to respond to different people depending on the communicative
situation
B. Ynah who knows how to nominate as well as terminate a conversation done in her second
language
C. Adolfo who is able to pronounce words in the second language with near native-like
competence
D. Leah who makes sure that the words she is using are comprehensible to the language
learner she is talking to.

131. BICS: skill needed in everyday,social face to face interactions; CALP: _________.
A. Skills needed in interpersonal communication
B. Skills used in informal settings to build relationships
C. Skills used in the classroom in various content areas
D. Skills needed to perform tasks beyond the school setting

132. Which statement on remedial teaching is NOT true? Remedial teaching involves .
A. Working systematically: observing, diagnosing, remediating, evaluating
B. Working purposefully and intensively with a pupil.
C. Seeing to it that the pupil can remain at his/her school.
D. Re-teaching, reviewing, and assessing.

133. Which of these words is an example of slang?

A. Spyware B. Goalie C. Ammo D. Scrub suit
134. Which of the following is a prototypical imperative sentence?
A. Let us join hands to achieve unity and progress. C. Don’t wait for them.
B. Could you open this glass for me? D. Wait for your name to be called.

135. Which one has the correct stress?

A. Ceremony B. Ceremony C. Ceremony D. Ceremony

136. Which sentence shows a noun in the genitive case?

A. The teacher teaches grammar. C. The teacher’s grammar is excellent.
B. The teacher likes grammar. D. The teacher teaches use grammar

137. The meanings associated with the word ‘ear’ in the following sentences seem related.
A. I put a cotton wool in my ear. C. The phonetician has a good ear for tone.
B. He listened to their difficulties with an impatient ear. D. I tried to get her ear.

138. How are the words with the same spelling and related meanings called?
A. Capitonyms B. Paronyms C. Oronyms D. Polysemes

139. “You, sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and
imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument. “(Scarlet Letter).
This line is an example of
A. Polysyndeton B. Polypton C. Asyndeton D. Aphorism

139. “...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth.” (Gettysburg Address,
Abraham Lincoln). This line is an example of
A. Anaphora
B. Epanalepsis
C. Anastrophe
D. Epistrophe

140. What modality is used in the sentence, “Marvin is probably at school now.”?
A. Deontologic C. Epistemic
B. Epistimolgic D. Ontodologic

141. Marxist approach can also be used to study Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere if the critic considers
A. The political and social conditions of the Filipinos during Spanish regime.
B. The influence of the Americans to the independence of the Philippines.
C. The linguistic contributions of the Spanish to the Filipinos.
D. The literary influence of the Spanish to the Filipinos.

142. Zennials are sometimes hostile ___ ideas or practices which differ ___ their non-traditional
views.
A. At, On B. For, On C. At, From D. On, Than

143. The Teacher considers feeling of anxiety, fear, and shame that may hinder second
language acquisition. Which method can help the teacher address this concern?
A. CL/CLL C. Communicative language teaching
B. Task-based language teaching D. CBI

144. Which is the proper sequence of activities when presenting a lesson involving speaking?
A. Practice, Production, Presentation C. Presentation, Practice, Production
B. Production, Presentation, Practice D. Production, Practice, Presentation

145. Which is the function of the gerund in the sentence “Swimming is a pleasurable exercise”?
A. Indirect Object C. Appositive
B. Subject D. Adverbial

146. Who is the blind poet who wrote Ulysses, which was about the adventures of Leopold
Bloom?
A. Virgil C. Bernard Evslin
B. Homer D. James Joyce

147. What words should a teacher teach for vocabulary development?

A. Tier 1 B. Tier 2 C. Tier 3 D. Tier 4

148. All words have onset.

A. Agree B. Disagree C. Maybe D. Perhaps

149. Which of the following is the MOST strategic way of reading technique?
A. Refers to the dictionary when an unfamiliar word is encountered in the text.
B. Choose reading materials that are easier to read.
C. Previews a selection and rereads different passages.
D. Refrains from taking notes while reading.

150. Who is alluded to as the Captain in the following lines from Whitman’s poem?
O captian! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack; the prize we sought is won.
A. Abraham Lincoln C. John F. Kennedy
B. George Washington D. Thomas Jefferson

151. Shakespearean Sonnets also known as the Elizabethan or English sonnets,

Shakespearean sonnets are composed of three quatrains and one heroic couplet with the
rhyme scheme:
A. abab-cdcd-efef-gg C. abba-cddc-affe-gg
B. aabb-ccdd-eeff-gg D. baab-dccd-feef-gg

152. Based on the Moral-Philosophical approach, Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a

Snowy Evening” suggests that:
A. Sin has effects on the human soul.
B. Duty takes precedence over beauty and pleasure.
C. Grasping pleasure while you can
D. Beauty and pleasure take precedence over duty.
153. The simulation phase as part of the language lesson’s five phases refers to:
A. The phase where the teacher gives a preview of the new reading lesson that he/she will
teach.
B. The phase where the teacher poses a question (of questions) to get the student thinking
about the coming activity.
C. The phase where the teacher attempts to get the students’ input regarding what they have
learned in the lesson that was just presented.
D. The final phase has the teacher using other activities to reinforce the same concepts and
introduce new ones.

154. On what type of speaking performance do these speaking tasks belong directed response,
read-aloud, sentence/dialogue completion tasks, oral questionnaires, picture-cued tasks?
A. Imitative Speaking C. Responsive Speaking
B. Intensive Speaking D. Interactive Speaking

155. Which of the following does not belong to the five phases of teaching vocabulary?
A. Imitation C. Repetition
B. Disposition D. Integration

156. It refers to the linguistic context or the textual environment provided by the discourse or
text in which a particular utterance occurs.
A. Context C. Sub text
B. Co text D. Cross text

157. Knowledge on Sound-Symbol Correspondence is also known as:

A. Alphabetic Knowledge C. Phonemic Knowledge
B. Graphophonic Knowledge D. Sight-word knowledge

158. Supply the missing verb:

The student was sad because he was ____ for his late submission of his school project.
A. Called off C. Called back
B. Called up D. Called down

159. Which of the following does NOT belong together?

A. Juno and Artemis C. Vesta and Hestia
B. Minerva and Athena D. Mercury and Hermes

160. Which of the following is TRUE about Greek Mythology?

A. Uranus was Father Earth. C. There were twelve Titans.
B. Gaea was the wife of Cronus. D. Amalthea cared for baby Hermis.

161. Who of the following is NOT a national artist in Literature?

A. Jose Garcia Villa C. Lino Brocka
B. Cirilo Bautista D. Bievenido Lumbera

162. What is the recurring motif of literary texts during the Romantic Movement in England?
A. Human folly C. Voyage
B. Rural Sceneries D. Superstitions

163. Which of the ff. sentences uses extensive verbs?

A. Brent and his brothers seemed too tired. C. I am so angry because of what you did.
B. At 10 p.m., Jenny vanished into the air. D. Jessie looks very young.

164. Which is an example of a complex sentence?

A. The student went to the library to search for Literature books.
B. My friend went to the party, but I decided to stay.
C. The person who is responsible for the upcoming party fled.
D. I wish to watch John Wick 3, but my best friend, who has a big crush on Keanu Reeves,
insisted that we watch together.

165. Which word formation is used in the underlined word,”I have never tasted such a good-
tasting sandwich”?
A. Blending B. Borrowing C. Coinage D. Compounding

166. Which of the ff. exemplifies a sentence with a participial phrase”?

A. Having finished the homework, Matt turned on the television.
B. Walking in the hallway is one of my morning routines.
C. The students in the classroom were silent.
D. The man awoke at noon.

167. Which of the following sentence is in the CORRECT use of the preposition?
A. We travelled there by foot. C. This school has been here since three years.
B. We have to eat at morning. D. I have been waiting for you for five years.

168. Which is TRUE about the syntactic hierarchical model for structures?
A. Sentence-clause-phrase-word-morpheme C. Morpheme-word-phrase-clause-sentence
B. Sentence-fragment-clause-word-morpheme D. Morpheme-word-fragment-clause-sentence

169. Which is TRUE about bottom-up theoretical model for structures?

A. Sentence-clause-phrase-word-morpheme C. Morpheme-word-fragment-clause-sentence
B. Sentence-fragment-clause-word-morpheme D. Morpheme-word-fragment-clause-sentence

170. Individuals speak a language or languages in their daily lives. Which of the following
varieties of language can be inferred from the given sentence?
A. Regional dialect C. Ethnolect
B. Sociolect D. Idiolect

171. Which of the following pertains to the most prestigious dialect or a variety of particular
language?
A. Acrolect B. Basilect C. Creole D. Mesolect

172. What do the following lines depict about Life?

“We live as we dream-alone,
While the dream disappears,
.the life continues painfully.”
A. We dream that which is further from our reach.
B. We dream of an unattainable dream.
C. We aspire but there is no one to share that dream with.
D. We continue living despite the dreams we did not reach.

173. What is the recurring motif of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems based on “Annabel Lee”?
A. Gothic C. Superstitions
B. Rural/Pastoral Life D. Industrial Progression

174. Which of the ff. is NOT an example of talk as interaction?

A. Chatting to a school friend over coffee.
B. Ordering food in your favourite restaurant
C. Chatting to a passenger during a plane flight.
D. Telling a friend about an amusing experience, and hearing him/her recount a similar
experience.

175. Bottom-up processing refers to using the incoming input as the basis for comprehension.
Which among the ff. skills develops
bottom-up processing?
A. Infer cause and effect.
B. Anticipate questions related to the topic or situation.
C. Use key words to construct the schema of a discourse.
D. Recognize the order in which words occurred in an utterance.

176. Which is true among the ff. combinations of literary text and task?
A. Level 1 Simple text + more demanding task C. Level 3 Difficult Text + more demanding task
B. Level 2 Simple text + low level task D. Level 4 Difficult text + more demanding task

177. The Beat generation writers William S.Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg used
their writing to _____
A. Immortalize or glorify the past.
B. Stress the significance of connection with nature
C. Reflect the rebellious, imaginative spirit of the 1960’s
D. Condemn the evils brought about by industrialization in the 1970’s.
178. What important related background knowledge should a teacher take up before teaching
haiku to Grade VII students?
A. Shintoism B. Buddhism C. Hinduism D. Taoism

179. The following Japanese writers are regarded as great haiku poets, EXCEPT:
A. Yosa Buson C. Kobayashi Issa
B. Matsuo Basho D. Yukio Mishima

180. The Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedas, is the foremost collection or Samhita made up of 1,
028 hymns, often comparable to the psalms in the Old Testament. This has come to mean .
A. The Gospels of the Hindus. C. The hymns of the “Enlightened one”
B. The important philosophical doctrine of the Hindus. D. The hymns of supreme sacred
knowledge

181. ”Cabbages and Kings” (1904) is either a novel or a collection of related short stories written
by O. Henry. In it, he coined the
phrase “banana republic.” On what was his title based?
A. Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper”
B. Alice Hegan Rice’s “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”
C. “The Shahnameh” — an 11th Century Persian epic poem
D. Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter”

182. Two versions of Robert A. Heinlein’s novel “Stranger in a Strange Land” have been
published: the edited version first published
in 1961 and the original full length(60,000 words longer) published posthumously in 1991. From
what does the title derive?
A. The play “Antony and Cleopatra” by William Shakespeare
B. The Old Testament Book of Exodus
C. The novel “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift
D. The book “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More

183. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
A. The Sergeant /Man of Law C. The Reeve
B. The Wife of Bath D. The Pardoner

184. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucer’s pilgrims?
A. The Knight C. The Reeve
B. The Parson D. The Wife of Bath

185. Complete the analogy. Obese : Fat :: Polydactyl:

A. Wives/husbands C. Arms/legs
B. Fingers/toes D. Brothers/sisters

186. In the “Fall of the House of Usher” what is the name of the woman who is entombed alive?
A. Natalia Doggis C. Lady Madeline
B. Arwen D. Mary Usher

187. Which of the following sixteenth -century works of English literature was translated into the
English language after its first publication in Latin?
A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus C. Thomas More’s Utopia
B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear D. William Shakespeare’s Sonnets

188. Which word contains a cranberry morph?

A. Apple B. Tiger C. Lukewarm D. Hunter
189. Which of the following is TRUE about languages?
A. All languages use essentially the same number of sounds.
B. All native speakers of a language learn the basic rules of grammar in school.
C. While different languages may use different phonemes, they all essentially share the same
syntax.
D. None of the above

190. In Loreto Paras Sulit’s short story “The Bolo”, what is being treasured by the main
character?
A. The Bolo that was given to her by her husband. C. Their house and lot
B. Their wedding ring D. The sword that her husband bought from Barcelona.

191. In Paz Latorena’s short story “The Small Key”, what is inside the chest when the second
wife Soledad opened it using the small
key?
A. Old clothes and other things owned by the first wife
B. Skeletons
C. Land documents
D. Weapons used in war by Pedro during the Second World War

192. Robert Frost’s poems are commonly about ______________.

A. Beautiful girls C. God and Faith
B. Decision making and fate D. End of the World

193. What is TRUE about the Past Perfect Tense?

A. There must be two past actions C. The main verb must be in the present participial form
B. The auxiliary verb must be “has” D. The auxiliary verb “had” must not be used

194. What truth relation is exemplified in this pair if sentence:

Sentence A: The fisherman caught a fish,”
Sentence B: The fisherman caught a milkfish.”?
A. Sentence A presupposes B. C. Sentence A entails Sentence B.
B. Sentence B presupposes Sentence A. D. Sentence B entails Sentence A

195. Which of the following words are added to the September 2018 list of new English words?
A. bongga, yaya, trapo, panciteria C. trapo, bongga, sorbetes, cartolina
B. carinderia, puto, bagoong, ensaimada D. balut, puto, yaya, leche plan

196. Which of the following is the most sonorant?

A. b C. a
B. p D. o

197. ______________ is the instructional heart of the remedial session.

A. Schema - Enhancement Component C. Personal - Emotional Growth Component
B. Cognitive Development Component D. Direct - Instruction Component

198. Which of the following plural nouns is an unmarked form?

A. students C. women
B. bacteria D. sheep
199. At which point of literature learning is comparing beginnings and writing chapter 0
applicable?
A. First Encounters C. Exploiting Highlights
B. Maintaining Momentum D. Endings

200. The phase in the curriculum cycle where designers plan changes in the curriculum
A. Curriculum Planning C. Curriculum Evaluation
B. Curriculum Implementation D. Curriculum Revision