English (CBRC)

• Loose sentence begins with an independent clause followed by a dependent clause that modifies it
• The objective of the Grammar-Translation Model in language teaching is to learn the target language in order to read its literature
• Thesis statement is the most important part of an essay
• Sir Gawain and The Green Knight is one of the best known Arthurian romances, which tells the story of a knight who accepts the challenge of a mysterious character
• The masthead refers to the name of the newspaper
• The common focus of lyric poetry is emotions and feelings
• In Greek Mythology, when the dead enter the Underworld, all their memories should be forgotten by drinking water from Lethe River
• Omniscient is the point of view assumed by the narrator from which he is able to tell everything that happens in the story
• The goal of the Audiolingual Method is to use the target language communicatively, overlearn it, so as to be able to use it automatically
• Phoneme is the single unit of sound and Morpheme is the simplest unit of an idea
• Interlanguage is the type of language used to describe the kind of language a learner uses at a given time, which deviates in certain ways from the language of a mature speaker
• Virgil's crowning achievement was the Aenid, an epic poem in 12 books recounting the story of Aeneas
• Potential Marginal Vocabulary are the type of words that a child may be able to comprehend by using context clues
• Cecile Guidote-Alvarez is the founder of PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association), with the vision of Philippine Theater engaged in the development of people and society
• Bidasari is a Mindanaoan epic about a girl and a fish that share the same soul, influenced by the culture and belief of the Malayan race about attribution of souls known as Animism
• The Behaviorist language acquisition theory is the basis of SLT (Situational Language Teaching)
• Annotating is a strategy for reading literature where the reader responds to the literary and cultural impact of the text by identifying images and themes and writing marginal notes about them
• The instinct of a reporter to identify or sort out news from an array of facts is a skill that is called as the newman’s sixth sense and referred to as nose for news
• Presentation, Practice, Production is the proper sequence of activities when presenting a lesson involving speaking
• Stage Business in theater refers to actors and actresses doing actions that are not part of the written script or action of the play, which were executed already in rehearsals to better establish their characters
• Carlos Bulosan is an English-language Filipino novelist who migrated to the United States and never came back to the Philippines, active in the labor movement in America, and author of the famous novel, The Laughter of My Father
• Relay is the mode of Language of Interpretation 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
• Epenthesis refers to estatue for statue, filum for film
• Walt Whitman is known as the Father of Free Verse
• Descriptive Grammar refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and writers
• Anti-Villain is a type of character that has great goals but wrong actions
• Cavalier Poems are known for their elegant, refined, and country culture, also known as “carpe diem” or “seize the moment” poetry
• James Joyce is the blind poet who wrote Ulysses, which was about the adventures of Leopold Bloom
• The poem Harlem by Langston Hughes inspired Lorraine Hansberry to write her play “A Raisin in the Sun”
• Panchatantra is a collection of fables used to educate Indian princes into becoming wise kings
• Dolch list is a recognized list of 220 common terms used as reference to teach sight words
• Eclectic approach uses a variety of teaching methods where the teacher utilizes almost all means to address learning difficulties
• Cassius is most likely to greet you in the ninth circle of hell in The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri
• A newspaper is divided into two with an imaginary horizontal line, called Fold
• In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner’s Tale talks about three friends who killed each other for the chest filled with treasures
• The Preying Birds, written by Amado V. Hernandez, is considered to be the sequel of El Filibusterismo