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S.Y. 2022-2023
Oral Communication

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Score: __________________

Teacher: ___________________________________ Strand: _______________ Date: __________________
TEST 1. IDENTIFICATION (X2)
Directions: Read the following statements. Identify what is being described in each number. Write your
answers on the space provided.

____________________1. It refers to the active or inactive membership of a person to a certain religious

organization.
____________________2. It refers to the membership and acceptance into a larger cultural group that share a
system of tradition, norms and values.
____________________3. It is the rank assigned by the society to its members according to their income, titles,
possessions, etc.
____________________4. It refers to how people feel and think about themselves as they age.
____________________5. It refers to problems arising from the expression or transmission of meaning.
____________________6. It shows that one of the elements in the communication process blocks the flow of
messages (verbally/nonverbally).
____________________7. It includes distracting sounds and noise.
____________________8. It can be one’s status and perception.
____________________9. It is the study of sound system in a language.
____________________10. It is the study of language use.
____________________11. It is the study of the formation of words.
____________________12. It is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in a language.
____________________13. It is the study of how words are put together to form grammatically correct
sentences in a language.
____________________14. It is the study of the sound system in a language.
____________________15. It refers to the conscious and subconscious transmission and reception of messages
of information using the body.

TEST II. ENUMERATION

Directions: Read and enumerate what is being asked below. Write your answers at the back of test
questionnaire.

1. Seven (7) Categories of Nonverbal Communication

2. Four (4) Characteristics of a Linear Model of Communication
3. Two (2) Interference of Interactive Model of Communication
4. Three (3) Principles involved in Transactional Model of Communication
5. Five (5) Importance of Intercultural Communication
6. Four (4) Strategies to Avoid Communication Breakdown
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S.Y. 2022-2023
English for Academic and Professional Purposes

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Score: __________________

Teacher: _________________________________ Strand: _________________ Date: __________________
TEST 1. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Choose the colloquial ‘pair phrase’ in the box to complete the sentences below.

Prim and proper To and fro Odds and ends Hard and fast
Tooth and nail By and large Pros and cons Down and out
Length and breadth Safe and sound Ins and outs Up and about
Ups and downs Song and dance Collar and tie Sick and tired
Bits and bobs Cloak and dagger

1. She is very ________________________ about everything. Make sure you don’t use any
swear words around her.
2. You can find quality beer throughout the ______________________________ of Ireland.
3. She believes that, _____________________, there is nothing we can do to change anything.
4. I’m afraid these rules are ____________________________. We can’t make any exceptions.
5. Now, you’ll have to fight _____________________________ to win this game.
6. We just had _____________________________ for dinner.
7. I’m afraid that John is ____________________________. I saw him begging the other day.
8. Their parents were relieved when they arrived _________________________ from their
hiking trip.
9. I’ve been running _____________________________ all day long. I’m exhausted.
10. You need to consider the ____________________________ before you make a decision.
11. I love reading suspenseful ____________________________ novels.
12. When I called the computer company all I got was a ___________________________.
13. She’s _____________________________ of her boss. I think she’s looking for a new job.
14. As soon as you learn the _____________________ of the business, you’ll be very successful.
15. I keep all the ___________________________ in that draw over there.
16. Don’t worry, you’ll be ____________________________ within 10 days.
17. It’s a formal dinner, very much a _____________________________ affair.
18. Of course all marriages have their ______________________, but they are worth the effort.

TEST II. IDENTIFICATION

Directions: Substitute the single-word verb for the two-word verb in the following sentences.

1.Major oil players put off oil price hike.

2.Employees did not put up with the company expectations.

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3.Parent could not put away money for their children education.

4.The chemical gives off a foul odor.

5.The class carried out a research on the frequency of using SMS.

6. A primary education system was set up throughout Ireland as early as 1831

7. This will cut down the amount of drug required and so the cost of treatment.
8. The material amenities of life have gone up in Western society.
9. The press reflected the living culture of the people; it could influence opinion and reinforce existing attitudes
but it did not come up with new forms of entertainment.
10. Thus, he should have looked into how the patient has coped previously.
11. The aggregate of outstanding balances went up and down quite violently.
12. In 1947 the Treasury brought up the question of excluding South Africa (and India) from the sterling area.
13. Dieters often feel that they should totally get rid of high-fat and high-sugar foods.
14. Thus when a Gallic bishop in 576 converted the local Jewish community to Christianity, those who turned
down baptism were expelled from the city.
15. Western scholars gradually turned out a corpus of translations from the Arabic and studies of Islam.
16. Ms Tucker, Lord White's 29-year-old companion, has since taken her statement back.
17. Discussion of the outcome of experiments that have used this method will be put off until Chapter 7.
18. They did not easily accept or put up with differences in others.
19. My high-school friend signed up for three years with the army so he could put away enough money to go to
university and study law.
20. The solitary feeding of insectivores in forests was therefore put down to a foraging strategy involving the
pursuit of cryptic and easily disturbed prey by singletons.

TEST III. ESSAY

Directions: Explain the following briefly. (5 pts. each)

1. Enumerate the four (4) factors of writing and explain each.

2. Define colloquialism.
3. Define formality in writing.
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Creative Nonfiction

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Score: __________________

Teacher: _____________________________ Strand: _____________________ Date: __________________
TEST I. IDENTIFICATION (X2)
Directions: Read the statements below. Identify what is being described. Write your answers on the space
provided.

__________________________1. It refers to a theatrical medium where the action of a story is told through the
movement of the body, without the use of speech.
__________________________2. It refers to a musical comedy stage production, designed for family
entertainment.
__________________________3. It refers to a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are
“beyond reality”.
__________________________4. It refers to a hybrid genre that shows attributes of both prose and poetry.
__________________________5. It refers to a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for
the dead or a funeral song.
__________________________6. It refers to a genre that, unlike epic and dramatic poetry, does not attempt to
tell a story but instead is of a more personal nature.
__________________________7. It refers to a poetry that attempts to be humorous.
__________________________8. It refers to a genre of poetry, and a major form of narrative literature.
__________________________9. It refers to a genre of poetry that tells a story.
__________________________10. It refers to a drama written in verse to be spoken or sung, and appears in
varying, sometimes related forms in many cultures.
__________________________11. It is the most popular form of poetry.
__________________________12. It is a poem that consists of five lines and is often humorous.
__________________________13. It is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain;
the poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the stanza, and then
alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two
refrains.
__________________________14. It is a popular form of unrhymed Japanese poetry, which evolved in the 17th
century from the hokku or opening verse of a renku.
__________________________15. It is a form of poetry common in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani,
Urdu, and Bengali poetry.
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TEST II. ENUMERATION

Directions: Read and enumerate what is being asked below. Write your answers at the back of the test
questionnaire.

1. Six (6) common metrical feet in English Poetry.

2. Six (6) Elements of Poetry
3. Seventeen (17) Forms of Drama
4. Five (5) Types of Literary Genre

TEST III. ESSAY

Directions: Read the statement/questions below. Explain each briefly. Write your answer on the space
provided.

1. In your own words, define poetry. (3 pts.)

2. Define genre. (3 pts.)

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1ST SEMESTER
S.Y. 2022-2023
Media and Information Literacy

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Score: __________________

Teacher: _______________________________ Strand: ___________________ Date: __________________
TEST I. IDENTIFICATION (X2)
Directions: Read the following statements. Identify what is being asked. Write your answers on space provided.

_______________________1. It refers to the hardware used to create and communicate with media, e.g. radios,
computers, telephones, satellites, printing presses, etc.
_______________________2. It refers to a set of rules that governs what conduct is socially acceptable in an
online or digital situation; it is a social code of network communication.
_______________________3. It refers to the act of taking another person’s ideas, writings, inventions, and
similar intellectual products as one’s own without knowledge, consent, and/or accreditation.
_______________________4. It refers to the combination of physical objects used to communicate or mass
communication through physical objects such as radio, television, computers, or film, etc.
_______________________5. It refers to the limitation and to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to
the author of a creative work.
_______________________6. It refers to a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the
standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
_______________________7. It refers to excessive or poorly controlled preoccupations, urges, or behaviours
regarding computer use and internet access that lead to impairment or distress.
_______________________8. It refers to a process of sharing or producing contents that exemplifies a
newfound knowledge; current examples are producing and uploading videos, blogging etc.
_______________________9. It refers to any form of media that is created and controlled by a community,
either a geographic community or a community of identity or interest.
_______________________10. It refers to a group of consumers for whom a media text was constructed as
well as anyone else who is exposed to the text.
_______________________11. It refers to the use of information technology to harm or harass other people in
a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner.
_______________________12. It refers set of rights granted to the author or creator of work, to restrict others’
ability to copy, redistribute, and reshape the content.
_______________________13. It refers to a model for delivering free learning content online to any person
who wants to take the course.
_______________________14. It refers to the gap between groups, broadly construed, in terms of access to,
use of, or knowledge, skills, and even attitude in information and communication technologies.
_______________________15. It refers to a theory that people receive and interpret media messages in the
light of their own history, experience, perspective so that different groups of people may interpret the same
messages in different ways.

TEST II. ENUMERATION

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Directions: Read and enumerate what is being asked below. Write your answers on the space provided.

1. Three (3) types of grapevine communication

2. Eight (8) Areas of accountabilities imposed on journalists which serve as a model behaviour for MIL.

TEST III. ESSAY

Directions: Explain the following briefly.

1. What is grapevine communication? (4 pts.)

2. Describe the evolution of media during: (15 pts.)
-Prehistoric Age
-Industrial Age
-Electronic Age
-New (Information) Age

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S.Y. 2022-2023
Personal Development

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Score: __________________

Teacher: _______________________________ Strand: ___________________ Date: __________________

TEST I. ENUMERATION
Directions: Read and enumerate what is being asked below. Write your answers at the back of the test
questionnaire.

1. Five (5) Stages of Sigmund Freud’s Psychosexual Development (include the approximate period)
2. Eight (8) Stages of Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
3. Four (4) Stages of Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development
4. Three (3) Stages of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Moral Development
5. Seven (7) Tips on how to deal with body issues.
6. Four (4) Statuses of Youth which indicate identity issues according to James Marcia.
7. Four (4) Tips on how to be Independent

TEST II. ESSAY WRITING

Directions: Explain the following briefly.

1. What is identity crisis?

2. Explain “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same
man”.

3. What is adolescence?

4. Why is it important to know oneself? How will it help you in your personal development?