SET 1

• Among Filipinos, the characteristic that makes English difficult to understand is that it is a strange language.
• ESP is centered on language appropriate to various activities that can relate well with grammar, lexis, register, discourse, and genre.
• In a performance-based assessment in ESP, using a rubric is best applicable to oral interview.
• Among ASEAN countries, Singapore is known as a shopper's paradise.
• An example of word-formation processes that changes "kindergarten" to kinder and "air conditioning" to "aircon" is known as clipping.
• A speaker should change the language according to the needs of the listener or based on the dictate of the situation. This is NOT done by sophisticating the language by using high terminologies for basal learners.
• Vowels are speech sounds made simply by shaping the oral cavity to give the sound a particular color or timbre.
• "PROFLIGATE as the spring sunshine." The capitalized word means overabundant.
• An example of a bound morpheme ending in -ion that changes a verb into a noun is action.
• Everyone is an example of indefinite pronoun.
• The indirect speech "I'm studying English a lot at the moment" means he was studying English a lot at that moment.
• Term, which represents the role of interlocutors, is NOT among the variable of functional grammar.
• Systematic Functional Linguistics has three variables: Tenor, Field, and Mode.
• "We put it off too long" is a structure that uses "off" as an adverbial particle.
• "Alex is giving his boss a headache" is a structure that contains a ditransitive verb group.
• Course outline is the summary of main points of a text, lecture, or course of study.
• Audio-lingual method anchors on behaviorist assumption that language learning is the acquisition of a set of correct language habits.
• English is MOST interesting subject for Rizza. The adjective that expresses supreme value is called Superlative Adjectives
• "Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this point" is an official sign in the passive voice.
• The THIRD child is the most brilliant. The capitalized word is an example of ordinal adjectives.
• Dwindle: increase :: stiffen: relax (Contrasting Analogy)
• Farce is a type of comedy based on far-fetched humorous situation often with ridiculous or stereotyped characters.
• Life is like a roller coaster is an example of SIMILE.
• Sounds like bam, bang, booing are examples of onomatopoeia.
• The type of paragraph for the topic "The day I won the oratorical title changed my self-perception" is Narrative.
• "How long is the poem?" is NOT included in a poem's context.
• Imagery is BEST explained as when the author sends mental images in the minds of the readers using words.
• In a novel or short story, when the point of view assumed by the narrator is able to tell everything that happens in the story, he is omniscient.
• When a scene in a story, novel, or play is interrupted to show an event that happened in the past, it is known as flashback.
• The resolution of the conflict of a story is called denouement.
• In fiction, the transformation of a character from arrogance to humility or the purgation and purification of character is known as

  catharsis.
• "Bad credit" and "Debit Card", "The earthquake" and "the queer shake" are examples of anagrams.
• My head is bloody but unbowed is an example of Alliteration.
• Juxtaposition is when a funeral home was built next to a children's nursery.
• "O! Wild west wind!" is an example of Apostrophe.
• Cliché is a colloquial expression that has been overused.
• Silent Way method makes use of rods and colorful charts.
• Use of grade readers is one approach applied in ESP to teach students with a low level of knowledge of English. These materials refer to different version of books with simplified grammar and vocabulary.
• The strategy using examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and illustrations based on local culture, history and reality is called localization.
• The Philippine Qualifications Framework is very significant in the development of content and performance standards.