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MIDTERM EXAMINATION
SY 2020-2021, 1st Semester
ORAL COMMUNICATION 11

Name: ____________________________________ Grade & Strand: ___________ Date: _________ Score:

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“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are
the slave to your emotions” – Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

God bless! ☺
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Read and comprehend each item and follow the instructions carefully. Avoid double
touch or erasures.

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Encircle the letter that corresponds to your answer.

1. What refers to the process by which people exchange messages?

a. Communication b. Interaction c. Writing d. Speaking
2. How can the message in the oral communication be delivered orally?
a. Through diaries b. Through books c. Through speeches d. Through journals
3. What pertains to the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other?
a. Language b. Speech c. Lingo d. Vocabulary
4. Below are the functions of language, EXCEPT what?
a. People use language to interact c. People use language to understand other people’s ideas
b. People use language to build relationships d. People use language to build chaos and misunderstanding
5. What pertains to a system of hand movements used for communication especially by people who are deaf?
a. Language b. Speech c. Sign Language d. Vocabulary
6. A whisper to a loved one is an example of what form of communication?
a. Verbal b. Non-verbal c. Interpersonal d. Transactional
7. A thumb’s up gesture is an example of what form of communication?
a. Verbal b. Non-verbal c. Interpersonal d. Transactional
8. How does the speaker functions in the communication process?
a. By actively transforming his thoughts and feelings
b. By passively transforming his thoughts and feelings
c. By actively receiving, interpreting, and responding to the message
d. By passively receiving, interpreting, and responding to the message
9. How does the listener functions in the communication process?
a. By actively transforming his thoughts and feelings
b. By passively transforming his thoughts and feelings
c. By actively receiving, interpreting, and responding to the message
d. By passively receiving, interpreting, and responding to the message
10. What element of communication indicates the interrelated conditions of communication which affect how people
understand the message?
a. Participants b. Context c. Message d. Channels
11. What element of communication pertains to the speaker’s meanings, ideas, and feelings?
a. Context b. Channels c. Feedback d. Message
12. What element of communication refers to the mediums that transmit the message to the listener?
a. Context b. Channels c. Feedback d. Message
13. What element of communication pertains to the reaction or response of the listener?
a. Context b. Channels c. Feedback d. Message
14. What type of channel enables communicators to send and receive visible information such as hand gestures, bodily
movements, and facial expressions?
a. Visual b. Auditory c. Spatial d. Kinesthetic
15. What type of channel enables listeners to receive information and interpret it through the tone, volume, and pitch of
the speaker’s voice?
a. Visual b. Auditory c. Spatial d. Kinesthetic
 16. What function of communication shows when people communicate to manage the behavior of others?
a. Information b. Motivation c. Emotional Expression d. Control or Regulation
17. What function of communication shows when people communicate to express how they feel?
a. Information b. Motivation c. Emotional Expression d. Social Interaction
18. What function of communication shows when people communicate to encourage others to improve or become
better?
a. Information b. Motivation c. Emotional Expression d. Social Interaction
19. What function of communication shows when people communicate to connect with each other?
a. Information b. Motivation c. Emotional Expression d. Social Interaction
20. What function of communication shows when people communicate to share and gain information?
a. Information b. Motivation c. Emotional Expression d. Control or Regulation

TEST II. TRUE OR FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is wrong. Write
your answer on the space provided before the number.

________21. Noise indicates the possibility of successful communication.

________22. Environment refers not only to the physical, social, psychological, cultural, and historical contexts, but
also to the personal history and schema which every participant brings to the interaction.
________23. The schema pertains to the participants’ knowledge of the world or his/her accumulated experiences.
________24. Non-verbal communication involves the use of language to express ideas.
________25. Terms such as “unfriend, groufie, and hashtag” are examples of newly-coined words.
________26. Phoneme refers to the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from one
another.
________27. Syntax pertains to the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences.
________28. Semantics refers to the study of the meanings of words and phrases in language.
________29. The phonological component consists of the rules that enable speakers to combine words meaningfully to
form sentences.
________30. The semantic component involves the rules for combining sounds to form words.
________31. The syntactic component governs how meaning is conveyed in a language.
________32. Every language contains symbols or elements which can create meaning when put together in a certain
way.
________33. Non-verbal communication involves facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and postures.
________34. Paralanguage refers to the non-verbal sounds accompanying oral language.
________35. You know that someone has intruded in your space when you start to feel uncomfortable.

TEST III. IDENTIFICATION: Identify what is being asked by the following items below. Write your answer on the
space provided before the number.

________________36. What refers to the sending and receiving of messages across languages and cultures?
________________37. What describes the framework of understanding for processing verbal and non-verbal cues
specific to a particular culture?
________________38. What pertains to the people’s common history, geographic location, language, social class,
religion, as well as their ethnicity, gender, age, beliefs, values, and assumptions?
________________39. What enables a communicator to understand and interact with other cultures by applying
attitudes and values, and understanding interaction skills?
________________40. What describes as the study of how cultures perceive time and its use?
________________41. What describes the mental pictures that one group forms from the main characteristics of another
group?
________________42. What refers to the tendency for people to believe that their own cultural norms are the right way
of doing things?
________________43. What refers to the study of cultural space requirements?
________________44. How does interpersonal communication happen?
________________45. How does intrapersonal communication happen?

TEST IV. ENUMERATION: Enumerate the concepts being asked by the following items below.
(46 – 50) What are the five types of context?

(51 – 56). What are the 6 Communication Models?

(57 – 60). Write at least 4 guidelines in communicating effectively, 2 guidelines as a speaker and 2 guidelines as a
listener.