WorksheetsLanguage Terms (Year 1)
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 23mins
Which Assessment Objective related to language, expression, structure and quote usage?
AO1
AO2
AO3
AO4
AO2 is all about concepts, quotes and ?
(a)
The AO which covers comparative analysis is what?
AO3 concerns what area?
Structure, examples, and context
Concepts, comparing and language
Context, GAP, tentative conclusions, examples
What do we call language that just falls short of taboo?
Expletives
Vulgarisms
Taboo
Formal
What type of modality do we see with: Joseph can sing extremely well.
Deontic
Epistemic
Boulomaic
Dynamic
Which is the example of the epistemic modal in the sentence 'Susie would like to go to down. She might possibly buy a new coat.'
Would
Possibly
Might
Like
Which type of modal concerns volition, wish and desire?
Boulimaic
Boulamaic
Boulomaic
Boulomica
Which type of modal concerns obligation?
Dynamic
Deontic
Epistemic
Hesitations, false starts, fillers, repetitions, overlaps and interruptions are collectively called what?
Spontaneous language
Prosodic features
Non-fluency features
Formality
Strings of words added to a declarative sentence to turn it to an interrogative are known as what type of questions?
Rhetorical questions
Ellipsis
Tag questions
Probing questions
The function / purpose when information is provided in a spoken mode is called what?
(a)
The purpose where people show emotions is called what?
(a)
What kind of nouns are: Hereford, Jim, Peter, Nicola, Buckingham Palace and January?
Common nouns
Pronouns
Proper nouns
What is another term for a possessive pronoun?
Genitive
Genative
Genetive
Who devised the Cooperative Principle?
Giles
Fairclough
Eckert and McConnell-Ginet
Grice
When a person uses sarcasm and the recipient understands, how could we apply maxims to this?
Quality flouted
Manner flouted
Relevance flouted
Quantity flouted
Select 3 terms we can use when there is an implied meaning.
Presupposition
Implicature
Subtext
Parenthetical
Informality
The maxim of relevance is also known as what?
(a)
Going to town is a declarative sentence – what other kind of sentence could we call this?
Elision / minor
Ellipsis / minor
Imperative
Words like well, oh, of course, yeah and right are known as what?
Cohesions
Fillers
Discourse markers
Parallel expressions used across the boundaries of conversation forming turn-taking, such as greetings, request and acceptance, amongst others, are known as what?
Shared knowledge
Phatic communicators
Adjacency Pairs
Seqencing
Draw the octothorpe.
Who is the researcher behind facework?
Brown
Brown and Levinson
Levinson
Goffman
Which politeness strategy uses lots of hedging and politeness strategies to avoid imposition?
Off the record
Bald on record
Positive
Negative
Draw a logogram.
FTA stands for....
Face Threatening Act
Face Target Audience
Function Target Audience
What is the linguistic term for primary deixis?
Exophoric
Endophoric
Deixis that is CLOSE to us is known as (a) deixis.
In the sentence 'The brown dog ate his dinner very quickly ', what word class is the word 'very' and 'quickly'?
(a)
Select all of the directive sentences.
Why don't you put the plant there?
Put the plant there
I think it's a good idea to place the plant here
Plant should go here
Where should I put the plant?
Who said that when we form social identities, we develop community of practices where there are shared common goals? Spelling and accuracy is important here!
(a)
Select all abstract nouns.
Free
Loyalty
Happy
Knowledge
Power
What is the rule I taught you to figure out if a word is an adjective or abstract noun?
She/he has - Abstract noun v She/he is - Adjective
She/he has - Adjective v She/he is - Abstract noun
Write down all 4 of Aristotle's Rhetorical elements.
Which one of Aristotle's elements deals with timeliness of language?
Ethos
Logos
Kairos
Pathos
Which of Aristotle's elements deals with credibility and trust?
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Draw the quantifier that results in 8x8
Because Ofsted like English incorporating numeracy in the curriculum, here's another: Draw the quantifer resulting in:
6÷2(1+2) = ?
