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,LPENGTS MCQ
1. In your weekly journal entry as a teacher, what would you NOT write about? Please choose one
of the following options:
1. Reflect on your understanding newspaper articles.
2. Express your response to professional and academic matters.
3. Capture aspects of the syllabus you will be covering during the year.
4. Describe your experiences in the classroom.
2. Which of the following statements is incorrect? Before you can write, you need to have the
following:
1. You have to have something to say.
2. You have to be alone in it.
3. You need practical support before and during the writing process.
4. You need to know that it is great fun.
3. Which statement is incorrect?
A topic sentence has the following several important functions:
1. It supports the support statements of an essay.
2. It gives unity to the paragraph.
3. It indicates the order of the sentences.
4. It gives the reader an idea of the subject to be discussed.
4. According to Dowling, a critical reader, among others, needs to identify the following:
1. The target audience
2. The situation in which communication takes place
3. The writer’s relationship with the audience
4. Emotive or persuasive language used in the text
5. When you survey a passage from a longer text, you need to look for the following:
1. Awkward phrases
2. Contradictory phrases
,3. Sentences
4. Main ideas.
6. According to the information provided in these charts, which province enjoys the most
widespread piped clean water?
1. Free State
2. Northern Cape
3. Western Cape
4. Gauteng
7. In most provinces, according to these bar charts, more people have access to cell phones than to
ordinary telephones. In two provinces this is the reverse: more people have access to telephones
than cell phones. Which two provinces are these?
1. Limpopo and Free State
2. Gauteng and Limpopo
3. Western Cape and Northern Cape
4. Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape
8. At which stage of the composition writing process do you plan your first draft and write it
spontaneously, without stopping to correct or change what you have written?
1. Pre-writing
2. Drafting
3. Revision
4. Completion
9. Register is NOT influenced by which one of the following aspects:
1. Facts and evidence which are presented in the text
2. The intended purpose of a text
3. The situation of the communication
4. The relationship with the audience
10. What is understood by bias of a text?
1. The facts which support a belief or statement.
2. Informed by prejudice, with a preference which clouds the judgement.
3. Information which tricks you, often by seeming to be factual or true.
, 4. Language used to exploit the reader’s feelings or opinions.
11. Which of the following statements about comic conventions is incorrect?
1. Comics combine literal and visual meaning conveyed through speech bubbles or narrative panels.
2. Dividing a scene into several panels helps to indicate the passage of time or parallel time.
3. Comics are stories which make use of only text bubbles with words.
4. Comics utilise a range of symbols to indicate a particular meaning such as a light bulb for a good
idea.
12. The PASSSS Idea is a simple and effective strategy to help develop critical readers. The letters
stand for:
1. P - Plan, A – Action, S- Survey, S – Study read, S – Summarise and S – Synthesize.
2. P - Purpose, A – Activate background knowledge, S- Survey, S – Study read, S –Shorten and S –
Synthesize.
3. P - Purpose, A – Activate background knowledge, S- Survey, S – Study read, S –Summarise and S –
Synthesize.
4. P - Plan, A – Activate background knowledge, S- Survey, S – Study read, S – Shorten and S –
Synthesize.
13. The three main purposes for which one may skim-read are:
1. Summarise, synthesise and survey
2. Scan, synthesise and summarise
3. Preview, survey and review
4. Preview, study and review.
14. Which statement is false with regards to using a dictionary?
1. The derivative of a word is often defined in terms of the headword.
2. Compound words do not feature as a separate entry if they are joined, e.g. greenhouse.
3. Word meanings change according to context, so “ruin” as a noun means something different from
“ruin” as a verb.
4. Abbreviations and acronyms are treated as words, so “SAS” for Special Air Service is placed
between “sartorial” and “sash”.
15. Researchers have found that increased wait time after questions in class improves the
students’ responses in various ways. Which one of the options below is incorrect?
1. Student-to-student exchanges increases
