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Describing the English Language by Harmer (2007)

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The sentence used in speaking or writing may perform different ———-

a)

Meaning

b)

Language function

c)

Pronunciation

2.

Functioning properly in conversation or writing depends on reacting to the context in which we are using the language and on the relationship between ———

a)

words and ideas.

b)

Grammar and speaking

c)

Vocabulary and pronunciation

3.

What are the 3 elements of language?

a)

Pronunciation

b)

Grammar

c)

Vocabulary

d)

Dialect

4.

three specific instances of words that group together:

a)

Collocation

b)

Word Formation

c)

Lexical Chunks

d)

Idiom

5.

Text must have ……….. (the way we connect ideas and sentences together) and ………. (internal logic).

a)

coherence, cohesion

b)

cohesion, coherence

c)

connector, linker

6.

When the text is coherent, the readers should be able to

a)

follow their line of thought.

b)

perceive the writer's purpose

c)

comprehend new sentence

7.

participants need to be proficient at …………, they should avoid long silences, and they should listen when someone else is speaking.

a)

hedges

b)

back channeling

c)

turn taking

8.

In speaking, speakers can use ………. (non-language) features to modify the

meaning of context.

a)

lingua franca

b)

paraphrasing

c)

paralinguistic

9.

“Register” refers to..

a)

The international English belongs to everyone who speaks it, but it is no one's mother tongue.

b)

the topic the speakers speaking about and the tone that wished to be adopted.

c)

the nature of words and their morphology, the elements of pronunciation,

and so on,

10.

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

a)

fixed arrangements

b)

schedules

c)

past event

d)

offers

11.

Something that is not real,

but it might be the case.

a)

Rumours

b)

Hypothetical meaning

c)

Modal verbs