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WorksheetsYear 12 - Revision quiz
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 45mins
According to David Crystal, how much of the English Language has been semantically borrowed?
25%
50%
75%
100%
Which of the below is NOT a feature of Hinglish prosodics?
V-W Merger
Glottal-Stop
Unaspirated T
Tapped R
What word links together the viewpoints of Gandhi, Kenyatta, and Thiong'o towards English?
Feminist
Post-Modern
Colonial
Post-Colonial
Who cited three problems of the world having a Lingua Franca?
(a)
Who theorised the Three Circles Model?
(a)
(a) = Someone who describes what is happening to language.
(a) = Someone who views language as having rigid rules that must be followed.
Draw the Three Circles Model and label it.
Can you draw and briefly label STREVEN's World English model?
What did Gandhi brand English as?
The language of idiots
The language of villains
The language of slavery
The language of the future
What was the Lingua Franca before English?
German
Spanish
Gaelic
Latin
Which wordS have persisted in English from Old Norse?
Dress
Skirt
Hat
Skull
ATTEMPT to draw McArthur's Model of World English.
What was Thiong'o called by his teachers when he spoke his home language in Kenya as a child?
An apple
An ape
A donkey
A hippo
What does Crystal suggest are the THREE problems with a Lingua Franca?
Language Power
Language Complacency
Language Boredom
Language Death
Which of Kachru's circles do USA and Australian English belong to?
inner
outer
expanding
One issue with Kachru's circles is that they promote superiority of one form of English over another.
True
False
Which language has English semantically borrowed KARAOKE from?
Finnish
Japanese
Korean
Farsi
Where did English come from originally?
Germanic Languages
Romance Languages
Indo-European Languages
Celtic Languages
Halliday talks about 'lexical gaps' in language. What does this mean?
Opportunities for neologisms
Chances to make words archaic
Which of the following are abstract nouns?
Table, baby, fridge
Chair, door, tree
Love, hate, courage
Pencil, ruler, bin
Which of the following are concrete nouns?
Arm, leg, nose
Up, down, in
tried, persisted, attempted
Valour, legacy, inspiration
Which of the following is a SYNONYM of hate?
Adore
Gate
Detest
Need
What are the ingredients of a COMPOUND sentence?
One independent clause.
Two independent clauses joined together.
A dependent and independent clause.
Some random clauses.
What is a Proper Noun?
A person, place, or thing
A noun with a full stop at the end
A thing that is not really a noun
A noun with a capital letter
Which of these sounds would occur in LABIAL PLOSIVE alliteration?
B, P
T, D
S, Z
FF, G
"Bigger" is a ...
Superlative
Noun
Verb
Comparative
When did Johnson publish his dictionary?
1755
1785
1805
1835
Since when has American English cemented itself as the Lingua Franca of the world?
First World War
Second World War
9/11
Obama's Presidency
When was an EMOJI voted word of the year?
2010
2012
2015
2019
What sort of audience would be most angered by this advert?
Feminist
Marxist
Capitalist
Conservative
Brexit is a...
Clipping
Blending
Compound
Acronym
David Crystal says that English has stolen words from HOW MANY different languages?
150
250
350
450
Which UK accent was voted the most UNattractive by YouGov voters in 2014?
Received Pronunciation
Welsh
Brummie
Scouse
According to COMRES (2013) what percentage of employees admitted to discriminating against prospective employees based on their accent?
20%
40%
60%
80%
Which accent do you assume had the most INTELLIGENT stereotypes attached to it (according to COMRES 2013)?
Cockney
Received Pronunciation
Scottish
Yorkshire
If the Brummie, Scouse, and Mancunian accents consistently score low in the public's estimations, we could accuse the public of being:
Racist
Sexist
Classist
Socialist
Northern English accents tend to have a
Long A
Short A
Southern English accents tend to have a
Short A
Long A
Which accent below is RHOTIC?
Welsh
Cockney
Scottish
Received Pronunciation
Who discovered that listeners assumed positive associations with an RP accent?
Lakoff
Cheyne
Mahoney
Tannen
What celebrity has an RP accent?
Danny Dyer
Prince Harry
Wayne Rooney
David Beckham
Which teacher has a cockney accent?
Mrs. White
Mr. Pedder
Mr. Trotman
Mr. Woolcock
The West Country accent has a HARD R sound. What is this called?
Glottal Stop
Rhotic R
Upward Convergence
Vowel shift
Predict: Which UK accent do you think is most likely to be found guilty by a jury?
Received Pronunciation
Scouse
Scottish
Brummie
The Brummie accent is often perceived negatively, this might be because unlike most accents it has a:
Upward intonation
Downward intonation
Glottal stop
Monothongs
What accent did you have to have if you wanted to work at the BBC before the 1970s?
Scottish
Welsh
Received Pronunciation
Scouse
Received Pronunciation is also referred to as:
King's English
Queen's English
English English
Royal English
Regional accents are more likely to be assumed INTELLIGENT than Received Pronunciation
True
False
Regional accents are more likely to be assumed FRIENDLY than Received Pronunciation
True
False
Received Pronunciation is what type of accent?
Geography-specific
Age-specific
Gender-specific
Class-specific
Why has Received Pronunciation picked up more negative assumptions post 2000?
Post-colonialism
Assumed elitism
Anti-Conservative backlash
All of the above
Where are you most likely to find Cockney and MLE accents?
Manchester
London
Liverpool
Bristol
Which of these accents is considered a NORTHERN accent?
Cockney
Scouse
MLE
Welsh
What is a component of the MLE accent?
Standardised English
Th-stopping
Downward intonation
Rhotic R
What is a good definition for Received Pronunciation?
The accent of the lower classes
The accent of London
The most standardsied and neutral form of English
The accent of England
What is a dialect?
A distinct group of words used by a community
A distinct group of sounds made by a community
What is an accent?
A distinct group of words used by a community
A distinct group of sounds made by a community
A Scottish person is more likely to have a ...
Long A in BATH, CLASS, GRASS
Short A in BATH, CLASS, GRASS
A Londoner is more likely to have a...
Long A in BATH, CLASS, GRASS
Short A in BATH, CLASS, GRASS
What is the Bath-Trap isogloss?
A line dividing LONG A speakers from SHORT A speakers
A line dividing OO-speakers from UH-speakers
A line dividing the Scots from the English
A line dividing th-stoppers from th-fronters
Which theorist talks about the BATH-TRAP isogloss?
Katie Wales
Katie England
Katie Scotland
Katie Ireland
What do you call a LINE on a map between areas where different accents or dialects are found?
An isotape
An isogloss
A dotted line
An accent line
What is the terminology for when you say 'OMEWORK' instead of 'HOMEWORK'?
G-dropping
H-dropping
Being wrong
Th-stopping
What is the terminology for when you pronounce 'THINGS' as 'TINGS'?
T-dropping
Glotal-stop
Th-Stopping
H-dropping
What is a term like 'innit?' at the end of a sentence referred to?
A glottal-stop
A tag question
A rhetorical question
An exclamative
What is the terminology for when you pronounce 'Thinking' as 'Thinkin' ?
Glottal-stop
H-dropping
Th-fronting
G-dropping
What is MLE?
An accent and dialect found in London youth
An accent and dialect found in London pensioners
An accent and dialect found in Bristol teenagers
An accent and dialect found in London taxi drivers
What is TH-STOPPING?
When you pronounce TH sounds as a F
When you don't pronounce Ts
When you pronounce TH sounds as a K
When you pronounce TH sounds as a D or T
What is TH-FRONTING?
When you pronounce TH sounds as an S
When you pronounce TH sounds as an F
When you pronounce TH sounds as a D
When you lisp TH sounds
Which of these is common in the cockney accent?
downward intonation
k-dropping
th-stopping
h-dropping
In which of these words might you hear a glottal stop?
School
Water
Danger
Teacher
What is a glottal stop?
When you drop H-sounds from words
When you make L sound like a W in words
When you drop a g from the end of words
When you miss a T sound in words
Semantic borrowing occurs when...
A country is bored of its own language
There is a lexical gap in a language that can be filled by a word from another
A language can't be bothered to make its own new word
Something new is invented
Lakoff prescribes to the _____ Model of gendered language.
Dominance
Defference
Difference
Deficit
