1. Which refers to the instructional strategies that make up the art or science of knowledge?

a. Psychology
b. Methodology
c. Pedagogy
d. Andragogy
2. You are following the task-based syllabus. Which learning activities do you apply?
a. Exercises following process writing
b. Identifying text types
c. Recalling supporting details
d. Writing notes, memos, reports
3. The Japan-funded mega manila Subway Project to the approved by NEDA next year.
a. Will be expected
b. Are expected
c. Should be expected
d. Is expected
4. The poet can be satirical, expressing himself with wit and force.
Interpret: “Which is the basest creature, man or beast? Birds feed on birds, birds on each other’s
pray; but savage man alone does man betray.”
a. Man is just like animals
b. Man is the most beastly of animals
c. Man’s inhumanity to his kind
d. Man is proven by his actions
5. Which synonym will you choose for the given sentences? “One of his ambition is to make a
fortune.”
a. Shape
b. Earn
c. Explore
d. Receive
6. Skills are intricate part of learning a subject, for instance, there are some mathematical skills that
need to be mastered before starting an Engineers degree. These skills referred to are
.
a. Pre-requisite
b. Enabling
c. Recursive
d. Terminal
7. Which word is closest in meaning to the CAPITALIZED word in the given sentence?
“I got my courage back and wonderful sense of expectation of the IMMINENT arrival of the
liberation.”
a. Unexpected
b. Eminent
c. Approaching
d. Delayed
8. Which sentence has an adjective clause?
a. The victim who was allegedly salvage
b. The victim who was allegedly salvage is a freshmen.
c. They found the salvaged victim in an abandoned building.
d. They were called to identify the salvaged victim.
9. If you plan to choose instructional materials for iconic learning, which will you consider?
a. Learning abstract ideas
b. Iconic symbols for learning
c. Visual images for real things
d. Leaning icons of big people and things
10. 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
11. 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
b. Inversion
c. Conversion
d. Temporal
12. In the old English poem, “Dream of the Road” pagan and Christian images were used to depict
the Christian teachings. Which is NOT a part of the pagan imagery?
a. Symbol of true
b. Death of the Hero
c. Crucifixion as a battle
d. Christ as a Warriors
13. If you want to teach “haiku with attitude” as some poets say, you need to choose which is
full of wit and insight.
a. Tanka
b. Tanku
c. Senryu
d. Sensei
14. 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?
15. Among news story leads that use the 5 W’s and H, which is applied in the given lead?
“Coral vandalism sparked outrage among drivers and environmentalist.”
a. Where
b. When
c. What
d. How
16. Complete the analogy.
King Lear: Tragedy of parental love : Tragedy of ambition
a. Othello
b. Hamlet
c. Romeo and Juliet
d. Macbeth
17. In selecting instructional materials, which of the following factors should be considered?
I. Consider the varied interest; abilities and proficiency level of the learners.
II. Advocate the use of culture-book materials.
III. Make sure to include the diverse culture of the class.
a. I and II
b. III only
c. I only
d. II and III
18. 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.
b. Preview and practice the text.
c. Modelling fluent reading by students
d. Reading without props and animations.
19. 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.
20. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986?
a. Chinua Achobe
b. Mabel Dove Danqa
c. Leopold Singhor
d. Wole Soyinka
21. The underlined verbs in the following sentences are classified as .
The time is now.
The world became flesh.
We remain silent.
a. Intransitive
b. Reflexive
c. Transitive
d. Ascriptive
22. 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.
23. What preferred tense is used for “stage directions and synopses?
a. Present
b. Past
c. Future
d. Present perfect
24. The word “just” in the sentence below indicates . “She has just eaten.”
a. An action that was true in the past and is still relevant to the present.
b. A recently completed action.
c. An action which was completed before another past action.
d. An action continuing at a given point in time.
25. 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.
26. What type of mood is indicated in this sentence: “How did you come to know about that tragic
event?”
a. Indicative
b. Subjunctive
c. Imperative
d. Directive
27. The sentence “The child cried when his toy car got broken” follows pattern.
a. N InV
b. N LV adj.
c. N TrV N
d. N InV Adv.
28. “Mario, my older brother, fathers there good looking and smart children.” The underlined word
functions as .
a. A noun
b. A verb
c. An adjective
d. A possessive
29. Which of the following adjective phrases is syntactically correct?
a. The most unique
b. Nearly unique
c. The very much unique
d. Less unique
30. Which of the following is a gradable adjective?
a. Absolute
b. Clear
c. Complete
d. Impossible
31. 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.
32. “When we arrived, they gave us badges. “Which of the following questions should be asked to
find the direct object?
a. What did we do?
b. When did we arrive?
c. What did they give us?
d. Who gave us badges?
33. All of the following contain operator verbs ECXEPT .
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?
34. 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.
35. Which of the following does NOT function as a pronoun?
a. I
b. We
 c. You
d. My
36. The President himself promised to stop the war. The underlined word is pronoun.
a. An interrogative
b. An intensive
c. A reflexive
d. A reciprocal
37. The question “Is he coming?” has a intonation.
a. Falling
b. Sustained
c. Rising
d. Melodic
38. 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.
39. 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
40. The underlined word in this sentence “We elected him chairman” functions as .
a. Direct object
b. Indirect object
c. Objective complement
d. Predicate nominative
41. 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
b. Input hypothesis
c. Natural order hypothesis
d. Affective filter hypothesis
42. 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.
43. 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
b. Transformationalists
c. Functionalists
d. Interactionalists
44. Which of the following is a view of a interactionalist?
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 relationship.
45. 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
b. Behaviorism
c. Cognitivism
d. Functionalism
46. 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
b. Syntax
c. Semantics
d. Pragmatics
47. What is shown in the systematic variation of /t/ such as /t/ in top is aspirated, /t/ is stop is
released, and /t/ in pot is unreleased?
a. Phoneme
b. Consonant
c. Variation
d. Allophone
48. 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 air flow through the narrow
opening creates friction.
a. P,b,t,d,k,g
b. F,v,e,o,s,z,s,z,h – answer ( double check the letters)
c. M,n,n
d. L,r
49. What is illustrated in 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
b. Juncture
c. Intonation
d. Suprasegmentals
50. Which of the following is an example derivational morpheme?
a. Helpful
b. Stays
c. Eaten
d. Longest
51. The words “gym, mike, and TV” are formed through .
a. Clipping
b. Back formation
c. Root creation
d. Compounding
52. 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
b. Dissimilation
c. Epenthesis
d. Metathesis
53. Which syntactic structure is shown in the following examples? Responsible officers, trusted
friend
a. Prediction
b. Complementation
c. Modification
d. Coordination
54. What is made use in this example “I told Paul to close the door and he did so”?
a. Homonymy
b. Anaphora
c. Deixis
d. Hyponymy
55. What category of illocutionary act is demonstrated in the following example?
Recession will worsen in Europe in the next five years.
a. representative
b. ommissive
c. directive
d. expressive
56. 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
b. Maxim of quality
c. Maxim of relation
d. Maxim of manner
57. This view emphasizes that native language comprises habits that a second language learner must
overcome. This is accomplished by forging new habits through repetition of pattern drills with
accompanying positive reinforcement.
a. Behaviorist learning theory
b. Functional learning theory
c. Cognitive learning theory
d. Holistic learning theory
58. Overgeneralization errors such as “good” and “keeped” are common in children’s speech. Such
errors suggest that children .
a. Are repeating what was said to them, and should take note of them
b. Do not know the past tense forms of those verbs, and experience difficulty
c. Induce the rules for the past tense from the language to which they are exposed
d. Repeat the teacher’s mistakes, and those errors are very hard to undo
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
b. Native language
c. Holophrastic speech
d. Interlanguage
60. According to cognitivists, errors in second language learning is considered .
a. Basis for testing
b. As proofs of unsystematic way of learning
c. Part of learning process
d. Not part of natural progression in acquisition of English
61. Give the BEST explanation for the metaphorical lines: “The car is a gluton for gasoline.”
a. Eat all you can
b. Speeding eats up a lot of gas
c. Riding in tandem
d. High expensive for fuels gas
62. “Give me a cup of blenden coffee, “this sentence is a / an act
a. Explicit locutionary
b. Indirect illocutionary
c. Direct illocutionary
d. Implied locutionary
63. Which refers to what a speaker does in uttering a sentence?
a. Register
b. Illocutionary Act
c. Reference
d. Comparative
64. Which time of the day is expressed in the given lines?
“An hour before the worshipp’d sun
Peered forth the golden window of the east.
a. Sunset
b. Sunrise
c. Dawn
d. Dusk
65. How is the following sentence labelled according to word usage?
“I deeply apologize for delivery delay”
a. Slang
b. Contraction
c. Formal
d. Faulty
66. Which of the following is a fragment?
a. After sunset, the farmer is ready for his dinner.
b. Before the rice fields were lush green.
c. Before he went for vacation, he finished his project.
d. The birds perch on the trees after sunset.
67. “EVERYWHER met at the contest venues. “The capitalized word in the sentence is a/ an
.
a. Interrogative pronoun
b. Indefinite pronoun
c. Relative pronoun
d. Demonstrative pronoun
68. Another category in a rubric for scoring storytelling ability is .
a. Ellipsis
b. Utterance stress
c. Proficiency
d. Intelligibility
69. After the basketball brawl, the players were to explain their side
a. Allowed
b. Allows
c. Allowing
d. Allow
70. If you want your lesson on the story of “Biag ni Lam-ang” interesting and to established a
connection to your students’ personal lines, 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.
71. Which is experienced by a speaker when the “tip of the tongue” phenomenon in finding
difficulty in what word to say occurs?
a. Acquired dyslexia
b. Anomia
c. Jargon Aphasia
d. Aphasia
72. 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 paly 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
73. What is the first step that you follow to increase students’ reading fluency?
a. Prepare the script of the text.
b. Group students by interest rather than reading level.
c. Students present a text by pointing it first.
d. Assign specific parts to students for rehearsal.
74. Which of the following DOES NOT serve as the legal basis for the Enhanced Basic Education
Curriculum (K-12)?
a. R.A. 10533
b. 1987 Philippine Constitution
c. Bilingual Education policy
d. Kindergarten Act
75. In the Egyptian short story, “The Two Brothers”, what were the names of the two brothers?
a. Rama and Sita
b. Anpu and Bata
c. Ntio and Ki
d. Dianqu and Sulta
76. If you ask a translator to translate a text at the same time to verbalized as much his/her thoughts
as possible, which method do you use?
a. Thought processing
b. Cognitive processing
c. Read aloud
d. Think aloud
77. Reading fluency has three elements. Which is one of them?
a. Autnomaticity
b. Vacabulary
c. Accuracy
 d. Comprehension
78. Which type of activity is highlighted in the following examples?
Puppets, board games, picture dictation, speed dating, interviews
a. Interactive
b. Generative
c. Communicative
d. Conversation games
79. 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
b. The news shocked the farmer
c. It shocked the community
d. The community is in disbelief
80. Which language function is expressed in the following statements?
“Assessment in most schools are segmented. There must be a well-crafted assessment tool to
determine learning. Assessment tools must be standardized”
a. Valuing
b. Accommodating
c. Invigorating
d. Evaluating
81. A good language education program should give equal importance to meaning and from
the beginning.
a. Fluency
b. Accuracy
c. Speaking
d. Expression
82. Which statement tells the truth about communication?
a. Communication involves reading and writing ideas properly.
b. Communication deals with imperfection in the use of the skills.
c. Communication is the key progress and advancement in continuing to learn things more
accurately and effectively.
d. All the communication skills are developing one ability.
83. Which one can help the students develop the habit of critical thinking?
a. Making the students prepare posters
b. Obeying authority without questions
c. Asking questions explicitly answered by the text
d. Being willing to suspend judgement until sufficient evidence is presented
84. Which is at the heart of reading, be it in the first or second language?
a. Pronunciation
b. Spelling
c. Comprehension
d. Grammar
85. Which option below presents CORRECTLY the steps in the listening process?
a. Understanding – remembering – evaluating – responding – receiving
b. Remembering – evaluating – responding – receiving – understanding
c. Evaluating – responding –receiving – understanding –remembering
d. Receiving – understanding – remembering – evaluating –responding
86. Miss Concepcion wants to prepare her students for a lesson that aims to sharpen the critical
evaluation listening skills of her students. Before making them listen to a recorded
advertisement, she establishes the context of the listening text and activate the background
knowledge of the students about the nature of advertisement. In what phase or stage is her
listening lesson?
a. Pre-listening stage
b. Post-listening stage
c. While-listening stage
d. Planning stage
87. 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
b. I, II, III
c. I and II
d. II and III
88. 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.
89. How do cognitivist such Chomsky perceive the commission of error by learners?
a. Errors are indicators of failure to learn, thus should be right away eliminated.
b. Error foster wrong speech habits and should be stamped out by repeated drills and
exercises.
c. Errors are welcome in that they indicate what has been learned and what needs yet to be
learned.
d. Contrastive analysis before language teaching minimize error occurrence.
90. Which is NOT true about the application of Dale’s Cone of Experience?
a. It encourages educators to plan experiences that will help students apply their learning to
real-life situations.
b. Contrive experiences are those that make the learners act out a role.
 c. Motion pictures limit the participation of students since it only involves seeing and hearing.
d. The more senses used in interaction with a source, the better the chance for students to
learn.
91. 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
needs a word wrongly (e.g. ‘not billow’).
a. Skinner’s Reinforcement
b. Stephen Krashen’s Monitor Model
c. Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning
d. Jerome Brunner’s Spiral Teaching
92. The type of words that a child may be able to comprehend by using context clues are known as
.
a. Receptive vocabulary
b. Potential marginal vocabulary
c. Listening vocabulary
d. Expressive vocabulary
93. The following are generally considered as preparational strategies in teaching reading EXCEPT:
a. Previewing
b. Predicting
c. Schema activation
d. Determining important details
94. Which of the following language teaching methods is NOT learner-centered in approach?
a. Content-based instruction
b. Task-ask language Teaching
c. Cooperative learning
d. Grammar Translation important details
95. Which element of fiction refers to the universal aspects of life as the writer perceives them to be
so that it determines his choice and organization of actin, characters, setting, and point of view?
a. Plot
b. Character
c. Setting
d. Theme
96. Which type of plot device ends abruptly so that the main characters are left in a difficult
situation without offering any resolution or conflict?
a. Anti-hero
b. Archetype
c. Cliffhanger
d. Foil
97. 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
b. Flashforward
 c. Foreshadowing
d. Telescoping
98. In a novel or a short story, this is the point of view assumed by the narrator form which he is able
to tell everything that happens in the story. This is known as .
a. Eyewitness
b. Omniscient
c. First person
d. Consciousness
99. Which form of expository prose presents the personal view of its writer on a topic? It is said to
provide light as well as delight for the author tries to charm his reader with his prose as he
discusses his ideas or experiences?
a. Paragraph
b. Essay
c. Discourse
d. Composition
100. Which of the following reading techniques is used when the teacher requires the learner to
read the selection rapidly by using all available information, such as title, subtitles, introductory
paragraphs, first sentence, summaries, pictures, maps, and diagrams?
a. Survey reading
b. Skimming
c. Study reading
d. Scanning
101. Complete the analogy.
Phoneme: the single unit of sound Morphene:
a. The smallest unit of measuring
b. The most important element
c. The simplest unit of an idea
d. The shortest phrase
102. Pronouns and proposition are open word classes while nouns, adjectives, and adverb are closed
word classes?
a. False
b. Partly true
c. True
d. Partly false
103. Which of the following is negligible in color-blind casting?
a. Crowd-drawing effect of new actor
b. Talent fees of seasoned actors
c. Director’s choice
d. Nationality of actors
104. The answer to the economic woes of the Philippines use of artificial
intelligence in agricultural productivity.
a. Are
b. Is
c. Was
d. Will be
105. Which does NOT belong to the group?
a. Modules
b. Show and Tell
c. Realia
d. Software
106. In the commonest pattern for forming nouns, the phrasal verb remains unchanged, except that
in speech.
a. The second element is unstressed
b. The second element is new stressed
c. The first element is unstressed
d. The first element is new stressed
107. Which sentence has a wrong verb form?
a. The office staff notices that the crowd has not been dispersed when they arrived.
b. Lilia had drove all night to get to the conference on time.
c. Robert knew yesterday that you have not received your mail.
d. Marilyn was correct when she said she would fail the exam.
108. Which is the correct order of the following words to form a sentence?
Everybody scampering gut the howling dogs
1 2 3 4 5 6
a. 13452
b. 45312
c. 32154
d. 21345
109. 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 daughter deserve to have a good fortune.
c. Marrying them off to good families means financial security for them.
d. She wants all her daughters to be happy.
110. 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.
111. 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
112. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep”
In what poem can the given lines be found?
a. The road Not Taken
b. Stopping by the woods in a Snowy Evening
c. Fire and Ice
d. Mending Well
113. Which method does Teacher may use when she instruct her students not to use the native
language and instead tell them to figure out the grammar rules for themselves as they are
encourage to speak the target language at all times?
a. Communicative
b. Immersion
c. Direct
d. Audio-lingual
114. 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
b. Euphemism
c. Localization
d. Contextualization
115. A schema theory basically a theory about .
a. How to know
b. Memory
c. Information back
d. Knowledge
116. Who is considered as the herald and messenger of the Olympian Gods?
a. Prometheus
b. Procusteus
c. Hermes
d. Zeus
117. The Philippine economy a sizzling pace in the second quarter of this year.
a. Grew in
b. Grew with
c. Grew at
 d. Grew on
118. Which type of speech arts presents parts, knowledge or information?
a. Persuasive
b. Expository
c. Explanation
d. Informative
119. Which is an appropriate alternative point of view to traditional media?
a. Beat
b. Hypelocal
c. Tabloid
d. Blogs
120. What does the following statement imply? “Someone’s frown may indicate anger to one
person, while to another, the same frown may indicate that has headache.”
a. Perceptions are interpretation of external signs.
b. Rarely do people’s perceptions agree.
c. Seldom are perceptions based on interpretations.
d. Perceptions are also interpretations.
121. The speaker should change the language according to the needs of a listener or cased 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
122. The goal of this type of assessment is to promote an on-going feedback that can be used by
instructors to improve their teaching and for the students to improve their learning.
a. Summative
b. Diagnostic
c. Formative
d. Objective
123. What is the mood of these lines?
Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise, I must think of a new life
And I mustn’t give in. When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory, too, and a new day will begin.”
-“Acquainted with the Night”
Robert Frost
a. Confused
b. Hopeful
c. Afraid
d. Sarcastic
124. 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.
125. Which branch of linguistics deals with the meaning of words?
a. Pragmatics
b. Syntax
c. Morphology
d. Semantics
126. “Poetry should glorify God, promote religious values, enlighten readers and help people to
become Christians.”
Whose literary theory is this?
a. Alexander Pope
b. Ben Johnson
c. John Milton
d. Francis Bacon
127. “The problem with many of the organization’s offers is that they are often conscious
what the members think or say about their project proposals”
a. About
b. In
c. For
d. On
128. Which figure of speech in use in the given example, “What happens to a dream deferred, does
it dried up like a raisin in the sun?
a. Metaphor
b. Hyperbole
c. Simile
d. Personification
129. 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
130. Which national policy describes the level educational qualification outcomes?
a. College Readiness Standard
b. Outcome-based Education
c. Philippine Qualification Framework
d. Asean Qualification Framework
131. Which is the first step to follow in writing a literature test?
a. Write the test where the target competence is considered.
b. Match texts to the tasks-tasks with seen texts.
c. Identify the learning context, language level, profile of the language and literature syllabus,
rule of the test and profile of the test.
 d. Group the skills to be covered-literary knowledge and skills for literary appreciation.
132. Which of the following are NOT characteristics of a formalist criticism?
a. It is independent if the writer’s background.
b. Criticism is a description of its object.
c. It is extrinsic in essence.
d. Criticism is concentrated on the work itself.
133. Teacher Fely imposes copious rules and paradigms to students rather than letting them discover
the rules. She views language learning as .
a. Passive
b. Intrusive
c. Inductive
d. Deductive
134. The following are the element of Haiku, EXCEPT .
a. 5-7-5 syllabic structure
b. Kireji or the cutting word
c. Kigo or seasonal theme
d. Iambic pentameter
135. Which is the appropriate preposition?
Most people like surfing, but my opinion, it is quite risky.
a. Form
b. Of
c. In
d. According
136. On levels of reading comprehension, which involves the understanding of information stated
directly in the text?
a. Critical
b. Literal
c. Interpretative
d. Inferential
137. The “mast head” refers to the .
a. Head of the newspaper publisher
b. Leading reporter of the newspaper
c. Name of the newspaper
d. Editorial of the newspaper
138. Which literary movement considers nature as its subject, being the source of enjoyment and
knowledge?
a. Renaissance
b. Naturalism
c. Realism
d. Romanticism
139. Which is TRUE among the options below as you refer to the two given statement?
He may leave tomorrow if he finishes his term paper.
He will leave tomorrow if he finishes his term paper
I. The sentence with may denotes permission or possibility.
II. The sentence with will simply describes a future event.
III. The two sentences convey the same meaning.
IV. Action in sentence 1 is conditional as stressed by the word “if”
a. II and IV
b. II, III, and IV
c. I and III
d. I and II

140. Which of the following language learning theories emphasizes student-centered and project-
based learning?
a. Socio-cultural
b. Constructivism
c. Cognitive-code learning
d. Skill learning
141. Which literary term refers to the overriding feeling in a work?
a. Mood
b. Point of view
c. Imagery
d. Theme
142. The primary thing to be taken into account by teacher in formulating objectives of the lesson is:
a. Ability of the learners to understand the objectives and to realize them
b. Compliance of the objectives with performance standard to be observed
c. Consideration of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Bound
d. Reflection of the holistic development of the learners.
143. 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.
b. Check for difficult words.
c. Find out the author’s purpose
d. Set a purpose for listening
144. You plan to adapt instructional materials for your class. Which of the following do you consider?
a. Using a variety of techniques for a chosen content.
b. Ensuring students’ performance in achievement texts.
c. Level of instructional material to make one’s work easy.
d. Combination of techniques for the same content.
145. The last step in the application of Situational Language Teaching is .
a. Elicitation
b. Question-answer drilling
c. Correction
d. Substitution drilling
146. Which among the given tools will most likely achieve the goal of given assessment to achieve
mastery of competencies, desired outcomes and standards?
a. Music CD Compilation
b. Personal Essay
c. Learning Log
d. None
147. Identify the necessary punctuation at points marked by black space in the following sentence.
Here’s the bad news The country’s rice shortage is shooting at an alarming
rate much faster than projected.
a. Semi-colon, coma
b. Dash, colon
c. Comas
d. Colon, coma
148. Which translation problem is VERY evident in the given sentence?
“Mabuti and panahon sa aking palagay.”
a. Linear dislocation
b. Extra position
c. Syntactic dislocation
d. Nominalization
149. Which is the symptom manifested by a beginning reader who is unable to quickly recognizes
sight words?
a. Cannot read 2 vocabulary and sight word.
b. Unable to break the code especially the vocabulary words.
c. Confuses and cannot recognize and remember slight words.
d. Can slowly decode sight words syllables by syllables.
150. Which assessment is appropriate for an oral examination in phonetics?
a. Authentic
b. Performance
c. Portfolio
d. Product