MODULE 5

Assessment Task 5-1

A. Look up the terms in the last sentence to find out why these are offensive. Provide
more appropriate alternatives for these and list them in the table here. (10 pts)
Biased Term Why it is Offensive Bias-Free Alternative
Jesus killer Jesus is not a killer Jesus/God
Lady president It should be specific and President
no gender specification
Little old woman It is an insulting word for Lady
an older woman
Redneck It could be an insult or Uneducated
some sort of a joke
depends on its context or
situation
Retard It is considered as an insult Intellectual Disability
for people with disability

B. In column A are sentences containing expressions that informal, localized, or biased.

Provide standard, formal, precise and clear alternatives. (10 pts)
Non-Academic Usage Academic Usage
1. They requested for additional reference They requested for additional resources.
materials.
2. The conclusion gotten by the group The conclusion gotten by the group isn’t
doesn’t follow. connected.
3. The respondents needed to chill. The respondents needed to relax.
4. The interviewee was pulling my leg. The interviewee was teasing me.
5. The student promised to submit the The student promised to submit the
document asap. document immediately.

Assessment Task 5-2

A. Identify each pair of words as synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. (10 pts)

1. lead/led homonyms
2. raze/raise homonyms
3. irk/annoy synonyms
4. defer/delay synonyms
5. ample/plentiful synonyms

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 6. rustic/refined antonyms
7. whether/weather homonyms
8. insurrection/revolt synonyms
9. random/deliberate antonyms
10.vertical/horizontal antonyms

B. Look up each word in your dictionary and write the definition. (10 pts)

1. Ruminate - think deeply about something

2. Pauperize - make very poor or impoverish
3. Hauteur - haughtiness of manner or disdainful pride
4. Torpid - mentally or physically inactive
5. Censure - express severe disapproval of someone or something, especially in a
formal statement
6. Tantamount - equivalent in seriousness to or virtually the same as
7. Sycophant - a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain
advantage
8. Wheedle - use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or
give one something
9. Oration - a formal speech, especially one given on a ceremonial occasion
10. Minatory - expressing or conveying a threat

C. Give the euphemism of the following words. (10 pts)

1. Fired - Axed
2. Squatter - informal settler
3. Cheap - Economical
4. Jail - Prison
5. Lay off - Offboarded

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 ASSESSMENT TASK 5-3
A. List down examples of words with their negative connotations. (25 pts)

a. Race an b. Disability c. Sexual d. Age e. Social

Ethnicity d Orientation Class

1. black 1. the blind 1. opposite 1. elderly 1. jejemon

sex
2.indigenou 2. cancer 2. lesbian 2. old lady 2. conyo
s people patients woman
3. non- 3. autistic 3. 3. geezer 3. jologs
white child transgender
person
4. half- 4. deaf and 4. cisgender 4. cougar 4. informal
caste dumb person settlers
5. nomads 5. mentally 5. he/she 5. the aged 5. underclass
deranged

B. Read the following statements carefully. Decide if each statement is true or false.
Write T on the blank if the statement is true, and F if the statement is false. If the
statement if false, re-write or revise it to make it true. Use the space provided after each
statement.

F 1. Anyone who is a proficient speaker of a language will find

communicating across cultures easy.
No one will think that communicating across cultures is easy even a
proficient speaker will find it hard and challenging having cross
cultural communication.

F 2. Our emotions do not matter whenever we communicate with others.

Our emotions do matter whenever we communicate with other
people.
F 3. All cultures have the same way of thinking about time.
All cultures have different ways of thinking about time.

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 T 4. Communication across cultures happen in one’s own country because
of the diverse domestic workforce of many companies today.

Pls. consider my assessment task 5-4 because I tried really hard to find someone
who I can interview for this assessment and hopefully I found someone with the
help of my family and this is his opinion after all. Prof I’ve already done this part
when you announced that we don’t need to answer this part.

Assessment Task 5-4

Interview a member of an expatriate community in the Philippines. An expatriate (also
referred to locally as “expat”) is a non- Filipino person who is temporarily residing in the
Philippines for business or work purposes. During your interview, ask about his/her
experiences in communicating with Filipinos. (15 pts)

1. What are your pleasant experiences in communicating with Filipinos?

As what he said, the pleasant experiences he experiences in
communicating with Filipinos starts with the way they treated him. He said that all
Filipinos are being polite and kind to him which makes him more comfortable while
staying here in the Philippines for work purposes. He said that Filipinos are good
in understanding and speaking English. He also said that he is somehow proud for
Filipinos even if he’s not a Filipino citizen because Filipinos can speak 2
languages which is English and Filipino language while him, he can only speak
English.
2. What are the challenging situations you have encountered?
For him, the challenging situation he encountered here in the Philippines is
his first day of staying here and it’s because of language barrier. Filipinos can
understand him while him, he doesn’t understand a thing when Filipinos start
speaking in Filipino language. He also finds it hard when he’s finding a meeting

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 place, it’s not his country that’s why he keeps asking for location with some
Filipinos and it came out that there are some places that’s called in Filipino
language.

3. How did you deal with these challenges?

He deals with these challenges by asking some Filipinos to elaborate or
explain more and patiently make him understand everything he wants to know.
Luckily, there are some good Filipinos with patience that’s trying hard to speak in
English to explain to him every single thing.

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