SECOND PERIODICAL TEST in ENGLISH 9

Competency: Draw conclusion based on the text listened to.

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer based on the text that will be read by your teacher.
1. What conclusion can be drawn about Luis’s age?
a. He is older than Richard b. He is the same age as Richard
c. He just had a birthday d. He is younger than Richard

2. What time of day is it?

a. Morning b. Midday c. Midnight d. Night

Competency : Distinguish the features present in poetry and prose.

3. It is language spoken or written according to some pattern of recurrence that emphasizes relationships
between words on the basis of sound as well as meaning.
a. Prose b. Poetry c. Prose poetry d. All of the above
4.  It is the most typical form of language. It literary means, “straight-forward”.
a. Prose b. Poetry c. Prose poetry d. None of the above
5. It is considered the ordinary language used in speech or writing.
a. Prose b. Poetry c. Prose poetry d. All of the above
6. It has the primary goal of selling the language itself as music.
a. Prose b. Poetry c. Prose poetry d. None of the above
7. Sentences are considered to be basic units of this language..
a. Prose b. Poetry c. Prose poetry d. All of the above
Competency : Distinguish the poetry from prose.
Which of the passages in each pair below is poetry?

8. a. The most valuable pearls come from the peanut oysters found in the ocean caves – in the warm
waters of Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the islands of the Pacific.

b. Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

9. a. A world of dew is a word of dew –

And yet, and yet –

b.Nothing in life is permanent. I know that. All things change; all men die. But why should it be
happen to a lovely, intelligent sixteen-year-old girl.

Competency : Organize information in various ways (outlining, graphic representations, etc.)

Directions: Use the information in the text about “Earth’s Grave Problems” below to complete diagram.
The earth’s grave problems, like overflowing landfills, oil spills and acid
rain are huge and discouraging. Sometimes, these problems seem
impossible for ordinary people to solve. People who work for the
environment have a saying that may be helpful to you. Think globally,
act locally.

10.
EARTH’S
GRAVE 11.
PROBLEM
12.
Competency: Use context clues to find the meaning of a word.
Directions: Pick out the word which does not belong to the group.

13. The man was shouting blasphemous ideas about different religions.
a. authentic b. nonsense c. distracting d. humiliating

14. The audience ignored the man’s clamor for change on social injustice.
a. yell b. cry c. scream d. silence

15. The lady was wearing bourgeois dress just like any other woman in their locale.
a. traditional b. common c. original d. conservative

Competency: Use of conditionals in expressing arguments

Directions: Complete the conditional sentences with the correct form.

16. If I ______________ stronger, I would help you carry the piano.

a. am b. will be c. were d. would have been

17. If you drop the vase, it ______________.

a. breaks b. will break c. broke d. had broken

18. If I hadn’t studied, I ______________ the exam.

a. will not pass b. do not pass c. had not passed d. would have not pass

Competency: Identifying fallacies in expressing arguments

19. It is a kind of fallacy which makes assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample
that is inadequate.
a. Hasty generalization b.Post hoc c. Weak analogy d. Slippery slope

20. This kind of fallacy which assumes that because B comes after A, A caused B.
a. Missing the point b. Weak analogy c. Slippery slope d. Post hoc

21. “My roommate said her philosophy class was hard, and the one I’m in is hard, too. All Philosophy classes
must be hard!” Two people experiences are in this case, not enough on which to base a conclusion.” This is an
example of what kind of fallacy?
a. Hasty generalization b.Post hoc c. Weak analogy d. Slippery slope

22. It is a kind of fallacy which can be very tricky to identify, since sometimes a chain of events really can be
predicted to follow from a certain actions.
a. Appeal to authority b. Hasty generalization c. Slippery Slope c. Missing point

Competency: Sense the difference of linear to non-linear texts

Directions: Identify whether the following is linear or non-linear texts.

23. 24.
25. 26.

27.

Competency: Use adverbs in narration

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct adverbs to use in the given text. Choose you answer inside the
box.

The deep sea diver looked 28.______________ at the ocean around him. One by one,
waves crashed 29.______________ into the side of his rocking boat. 30.______________, he was
going to have entered these dangerous waters. Knowing the time had come, he put on
his goggles, flipper and oxygen mask. He dived into the freezing waters 31.______________
and hoped for the best.

below nervously in a few seconds angrily

Competency: Get information from print media

Directions: Read the article carefully and answer the questions that follow.

32. What information can you get from the news given?
 a. Bullying
b. Cyber-bullying
c. Internet Bullies
d. BeatBullying

33. What did Professor Dieter Wolke found out in his study about bullying? Bullying is…
a. a primary cause of self-harm to those who bullied before the age of 12.
b. a cause of persistent, ongoing and serious assault.
c. a reason why youngster is neglectful in his studies.
d. a terrorizing phenomenon about self-esteem

Competency: Anticipate the points that will be made based by the speaker purpose.
34. What do you think is the reason why writer wrote the article about online bullying?
a. to entertain the readers b. to persuade the readers
c. to inform the readers d. to enlighten the readers

Competency: Use of figurative language.

Directions: Choose the correct figurative language used in each sentence/lines.

35. He was knocked unconsciously by a snowflake.

a. metaphor b. simile c. hyperbole d. personification

36. The blackboard is a magic of lines.

a. metaphor b. simile c. hyperbole d. personification

37. The wind stood up, and gave a shout;

He whistled on his finger,…
a. metaphor b. simile c. hyperbole d. personification

Competency: Determine the tone, mood, technique and purpose of the author.

Whenever you make that overdue visit to see the grandparents, the
odds are that before long one of them will embark on a story that says, how
hard they had it, and how easy “young people” now have it.

You know the kind: “We didn’t have hair gel, we had to use coconut oil
instead”;

“Shoes? I remember when they first invented them. Cost the earth,
they did.”

Next time you see them, tell them from me: they need to walk a mile in

38. As hinted in the text, the author has a ____________ attitude in life.
a. positive b. negative c. strong d. straight-forward

39. The tone of the author is more of ____________.

a. irritated b. declined c. offended d. respected

40. The word in the text that gives the best hint to the mood it evokes is ____________.
a. overdue b. visit c. shoe d. invented

41. What do you think is the purpose of the author in writing this text?
a. to brag b. to criticize c. to inform d. to entertain

Competency: Give the appropriate communicative styles for various situations (intimate, casual,
conversational, consultative, frozen).
Directions: Identify what communicative styles are used in various situations.
42. 43.

Dad: I want to you to marry a girl of Receptionist: Good Afternoon! Do you have an
my choice. appointment today with Dr. Reyes?

Son: No! It can’t be! Patient: Yes, I just called yesterday!

Dad: The girl is our Mayor’s Receptionist: Okay! Please come in. Kindly wait
daughter. He is my friend. for your turn.

Son: But I don’t love her. I have a Inside the clinic…

girlfriend already and I’m going to

Patient: Doc, I just want to ask why is it that I’m
marry her soon.
always having shortness of breath?

Dad: No! My decision is final!

Doctor: Let me check you up.. Based on my
findings, you need to take this medicine to cure the
Son: How could you Dad, I’m a
shortness of breath and to make you feel more
grown up now, I can decide on my
comfortable every day.
own.

44. 45.

It is always seems impossible until it is DONE!

God Bless

COL. LAURO D. DIZON MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

 San Pablo City
S.Y. 2018-2019

SECOND PERIODICAL TEST in ENGLISH 9

TABLE OF SPECIFICATION

Competencies Number of Item

Items Placement
Draw conclusion based on the text listened to. 2 1,2

Distinguish the features present in poetry and 5 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

prose.
Distinguish the poetry from prose. 2 8, 9

Organize information in various ways (outlining, 3 10, 11,12

graphic representations, etc.)

Use context clues to find the meaning of the word 3 13,14,15

Use of conditionals in expressing arguments 3 16,17,18

Identifying fallacies in expressing arguments 4 19,20,21,22

Sense the difference of linear to non-linear texts 5 23, 24, 25,26,27

Use adverbs in narration 4 28-31

Use of figurative language 3 31-33

Get information from print media 2 34-35

Anticipate the points that will be made based by 2 36

the speaker purpose.
Determine the tone, mood, technique and purpose 4 38-41
of the author.

Give the appropriate communicative styles for 4 42-45

various situations (intimate, casual,
conversational, consultative, frozen).

Prepared by:

Stephany Gamban Reymundodia

Grade 9 Teacher

Noted by:

ROSITA P. BANZUELA
English Head Teacher

Approved:

LAILA R. MALOLES
EPS-I English
LISTENING TEXT:

Richard and Luis had been hiking for hours.

Richard had to carry Luis for the last few
miles of the hike. Sweat was rolling down
his face as the sun shone directly overhead.

LISTENING TEXT:

Richard and Luis had been hiking for hours.

Richard had to carry Luis for the last few
miles of the hike. Sweat was rolling down
his face as the sun shone directly overhead.

LISTENING TEXT:

Richard and Luis had been hiking for hours.

Richard had to carry Luis for the last few
miles of the hike. Sweat was rolling down
his face as the sun shone directly overhead.

LISTENING TEXT:

Richard and Luis had been hiking for hours.

Richard had to carry Luis for the last few
miles of the hike. Sweat was rolling down
his face as the sun shone directly overhead.

G9-English Second Quarterly Test

2018-2019
Key to Correction

1. D
2. A/B
3. B
4. A
5. A
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. OVERFLOWING LANDFILLS
11. OIL SPILL
12. ACID RAIN
13. A
14. D
15. C
16. C
17. B
18. D
19. A
20. D
21. A
22. C
23. NON-LINEAR TEXT
24. LINEAR TEXT
25. LINEAR TEXT
26. NON-LINEAR TEXT
27. LINEAR TEXT
28. NERVOUSLY
29. ANGRILY
30. IN A FEW SECONDS
31. BELOW
32. A
33. A
34. C
35. D
36. A
37. D
38. D
39. A
40. C
41. A
42. CASUAL
43. FORMAL
44. INTIMATE
45. CONSULTATIVE