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WorksheetsDescribing the English Language by Harmer (2007)
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
The sentence used in speaking or writing may perform different ———-
Meaning
Language function
Pronunciation
Functioning properly in conversation or writing depends on reacting to the context in which we are using the language and on the relationship between ———
words and ideas.
Grammar and speaking
Vocabulary and pronunciation
What are the 3 elements of language?
Pronunciation
Grammar
Vocabulary
Dialect
three specific instances of words that group together:
Collocation
Word Formation
Lexical Chunks
Idiom
Text must have ……….. (the way we connect ideas and sentences together) and ………. (internal logic).
coherence, cohesion
cohesion, coherence
connector, linker
When the text is coherent, the readers should be able to
follow their line of thought.
perceive the writer's purpose
comprehend new sentence
participants need to be proficient at …………, they should avoid long silences, and they should listen when someone else is speaking.
hedges
back channeling
turn taking
In speaking, speakers can use ………. (non-language) features to modify the
meaning of context.
lingua franca
paraphrasing
paralinguistic
“Register” refers to..
The international English belongs to everyone who speaks it, but it is no one's mother tongue.
the topic the speakers speaking about and the tone that wished to be adopted.
the nature of words and their morphology, the elements of pronunciation,
and so on,
The choice in which futurity is expressed depends on whether the speaker wants to talk about ………. or just a simple concept of the future with none of these overtones
fixed arrangements
schedules
past event
offers
Something that is not real,
but it might be the case.
Rumours
Hypothetical meaning
Modal verbs
