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WorksheetsJamaican Creole (JC) or Jamaican Standard English (JSE)?
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Weh yuh ah seh?
What are you saying?
Weh yuh ah seh?
What are you going?
What is your name?
Wah uh name?
Where is your name?
What is your name?
Where are you?
What name is given to you?
Mi soon come
I am going
I am on my way
I am coming
I'll be there soon
Inna de morrows
See you tomorrow
See you later
See you next week
See you in the next day
De party tun up
The party was bad
The party is good
The party was boring
The party turn up
Mi nuh biznizz.
It matters to me
I don't business
I don't care
I care zero
Weh uh come from?
Which country are you from?
Where are you from?
Where do you live?
Who lives next to you?
Wah uh mada name?
Who is your mother?
Where is your mother?
What is your mother's name?
When can I learn your mother's name?
The official language of Jamaica is:
Jamaican creole
Jamaican Patois
English
French
Which does NOT represent Jamaican culture?
Dancehall music
Reggae
Dub poetry
Hip hop music
Jamaica was first colonized by the ...
British
Spanish
French
Jamaican Patois has no ...
Grammar
Vocabulary
Standard way to write
Phonology
The word duppy means ...
Spider
Ghost
Child
Eat
What are Jamaica's languages?
Jamaican English and Spanish
Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole
Jamaican Creole and Spanish
Jamaican Creole, Jamaican English and Spanish
The three terms in the speech continuum are
acrolect, basilect and mesolect
acrolect, idiolect and mesolect
sociolect, basilect and acrolect
acrolect, dialect and basilect
What style of music is popular in Jamaica?
Reggae
Blues
Jazz
Classical
Those indigenous people who settled in Jamaica were called...
Africans
Arawaks
Asiatic People
Europeans
In English, the Jamaican creole word "Pickney" means child. True or False?
True
False
What is Jamaica's National Motto?
Out of many too many people
Out of One, many people
Out of Many, One people
Outtameni
Jamaican Standard English (JSE) is influenced mainly by:
American and Austrailian English
British English and West African languages
British English and French
British English and American English
When the Africans were separated on arriving in Jamaica during the British colonial period, they used this language to communicate.
Pidgin
Patois
French Creole
English
Jamaican Creole (Patois) is formed mainly from...
Africaan and French
Spanish and English
British English and West African languages
Patwah
The word "Patois" is of what origin?
Spanish
French
British
American
Jamaica's "national language" is...
Jamaican Standard English
British English
American English
Jamaican Creole (Jamaican Patois)
Society views Jamaican Creole as...
popular and negative
popular and positive
unpopular and prestigious
the language of the minority
