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Miscellaneous GrammarSet 418

1Bottomless pit means .....

2Idioms-Fill in the blank (Use common idioms): The news was .....; everyone was shocked. Choose the best idiom to complete the sentence.

3Tina ripped the plastic bag and spilled the beans all over the floor.

4To do or finish an unpleasant but necessary piece of work or duty so that you do not have to worry about it in the future:

5The words "old hag" mean .....

6What does au revior mean in English?

7An extreme storm with spinning air

8A stock of a product which is held by a trade body or government as a means of regulating the price of that product.

9Why is it difficult to literally translate "After years of seeing his star power decline" into Arabic?

10The gap between those who have access to technology and those who do not

11Which of the following is an example of a celebrity endorsing an event simply by being associated with it:

12Before I enter the exam, I always get .....

13Music that accompanies a film

14An expression that is a common phrase with a widely known meaning, but cannot be interpreted literally (example-it is raining cats and dogs)

15It's difficult to learn English ..... they have a different meaning than the words in the phrase.

16A short news report on radio or television, giving the most recent information about an important or unexpected event

17What is the primary difference between L1 (first language) acquisition and L2 (second language) learning?

18When does an Aeronautical Station have to give Deck Information to an aircraft Station?

19What is 'interlanguage pragmatics' primarily concerned with?

20What does the use of dialect words in a text indicate?

21Which of the following is an example of code-switching?

22What languages influenced Naija (Nigerian Pidgin English)?

23What contributed to the development of ASL according to the study guide?

24Tick the incorrect statement about language acquirement.

25What are the features of intercultural advertising?

26Which of the following is/are the most valid reason(s) for the preference for "Union of states" instead of "Federation of states"?

27The term source language refers to:

28Which of the following is not a major kind of contrastive analysis?

29To talk to a female teacher, you should start by calling them:

30[The role of L1 in L2 Learning] This description belongs to which theory in the role of L1 in L2 Learning:"it is proposed that learners create an intermediate language system influenced by both L1 & L2."

31Verbal and non-verbal communication do not vary widely from culture to culture.

32Bilingual education is often impacted by politics in the surrounding areas.

33In 1788 Australia was settled as a ..... colony.

34What was the assumption behind contrastive analyses in language learning?

35If you learn French and begin to learn Spanish and are picking it up easy because the words look very similar to your French terms, you are experiencing

36Singaporean English is becoming a native-speaker variety through

37According to the Global Coalition for Linguistic Rights, what does linguistic rights include?

38Dialect brebes, and Dialect tegal are examples of .....

39In analyzing World Englishes, Kachru classified which of the following countries as members of the outer circle?

40What is the first language of the UK, the USA, Australia and New Zealand?

41These learners will listen and process language and will not speak at all, sometimes for many months, before beginning to use language.

42Which term is preferred by linguists to refer to African American English due to its avoidance of emotional reactions and racist parodies?

43Which term describes the unconscious process of acquiring language, typically associated with L1?

44Anvita calls Sakhi-

45AMERICAN vs BRITISH ENGLISHcellphone

46What is the name of the head of the Supreme Court?

47All of the following belong to the Indo-European language family except:

48Artile 5

49Which of the following is an example of L1 interference?

50Why was the Education Act important?

51What is "fossilization" in the context of interlanguage development?

52Code-Switching is when:

53Manually Coded English (systems) are not languages.

54The learner is not exposed to the language too much.

55Regional speech pattern.

56These learners don't need to be constantly corrected. They need to experiment and to play with language.

57The first written language of India

58What is the characteristic feature of New Zealand English?

59What is a common criticism of the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?

60What is the main difference between Canadian English and the English spoken in the US?

61While you are taking down notes in your class, your classmate suddenly talked to you, you unexpectedly wrote what he said instead of what was on the board. In this situation, you encountered what type of error?