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EL Spoken Discourse

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is NOT a feature of Spoken Discourse?

a)

Overlapping Speech

b)

Interrogative Tags

c)

Discourse Particles

d)

Minimal Responses

(back- channelling)

2.

What is NOT a feature of Spoken Discourse?

a)

Openings and Closings

b)

Prosodic Features

c)

Adjacency Pairs

d)

Holding the floor

3.

What is a feature of Spoken Discourse?

a)

Minimal Responses

b)

Non-fluency features

c)

Topic Management

d)

Holding the floor

4.

What is the acronym that helps you to remember the Prosodic features

(a)  

5.

Which of the following is not a Vocal Effect?

a)

Sneezing

b)

Intake of breath

c)

Laughter

d)

Cough

6.

Paralinguistic features are comprised of ... (two words)

(a)  

7.

Code-switching is:

a)

Minimal Responses

b)

Changing topics in conversation

c)

Switching between different languages or dialects

d)

A strong marker of social identity and belonging

8.

Ladies and Gentlemen is an example of a ...

(a)  

9.

Discourse Particles are:

a)

Voiced hesitations such as um, ah and er

b)

Little words or phrases we deliberately insert in our speech

c)

A false start

d)

A non-fluency feature

10.

"Could you sort of move over just a little bit? Is an example of ...

a)

A hedging expression

b)

Navigating negative face needs

c)

Addressing positive face needs

d)

A false start

11.

Interrogative tags are:

a)

The way we turn a statement into a question at the end of a phrase of sentence

b)

Used to check that the person is following, understanding or agreeing.

c)

A floor-passing strategy

d)

Little words or phrases we deliberately insert in our speech

12.

Find an example of an adjacency pair

a)

This isn't ok and you know it isn't!

b)

1 + 1 = 2.

c)

Can you talk?

Yeah, go ahead.

d)

You can't bring that to school because it will be confiscated.

13.

What is true in overlapping speech (2 answers)

a)

It's more common in spontaneous discourse

b)

It never happens in formal scripted interviews

c)

It always happens in spoken conversations

d)

It can be used to interject

14.

Find all the non fluency features

a)

Filled pauses

b)

Rising intonation

c)

Voiced hesitations

d)

Repairs

15.

Find all the non fluency features

a)

Repetition

b)

False Starts

c)

Pauses

d)

Minimal Response

16.

Find examples of a pause filler

a)

Yeah - Nah

b)

Ah ... er ...

c)

Ummm

d)

Wait, i'm having a blank

17.

Sort of, kind of, like, I think, a bit and just are all examples of ...

(a)  

18.

Holding the floor can be achieved by:

a)

Continuing intonation

b)

Filled pauses

c)

Rising intonation

d)

Conjunctions

19.

Minimal Responses:

a)

Show you're not interested

b)

Demonstrate encouragement to continue

c)

Are features of cooperative conversation

d)

Do not occur in interviews

20.

The following expressions "Hello Darling" and "Hi Mum" are examples of ...

(a)