ASIAN PACIFIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, INCORPORATED

Block 2 Cristo Rey Capas, Tarlac

Academic Year 2024-2025
First Semester
Senior Highschool Department

Second Monthly Assessment in Oral Communication in Context

Name: ___________________________________________________ Score: ________________
Grade & Section________________________________ Date: _________________
Parent’s/Guardian’s Signature: ____________________ Teacher’s Signature: _________________

General Instruction
1. Use black and blue ballpen ONLY.
2. Cross-outs, tampering, erasures, or any attempts to erase any part of your answers are strictly
prohibited on this exam.
3. Turn off your cellphones before you begin and give it to your teacher or proctor.
4. CHEATING is a major offense, anybody who caught cheating will automatically receive a final failing
grade.

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Read the questions carefully and encircle the best answer for each question.

1. A speaker carries out nomination to collaboratively and productively establish a topic.

a. Turn taking c. Topic shifting
b. Nomination d. Topic Control
2. On some cases of communication, there’s instructions that must be followed. Those instructions confine
you as a speaker and limit what you can say. What type of communication strategy it is?
a. Termination c. Restriction
b. Topic Control d. Topic shifting
3. Sometimes people are given unequal opportunities to talk because others take much time during the
conversation. What type of communication strategy it is?
a. Topic shifting c. Topic control
b. Turn taking d. Nomination
4. It involves moving from one topic to another. It is where one part of a conversation ends and where
another begins.
a. Topic shifting c. Topic saying
b. Topic shipping d. Topic taking
5. It refers to how speakers address the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that they
may encounter in a conversation.
a. Termination c. Restriction
b. Repair d. Nomination
6. It refers to the conversation participants' close-initiating expressions that end a topic in a conversation.
a. Termination c. Restriction
b. Repair d. Nomination
7. It is a communicative strategy used to control and prevent unnecessary interruptions and topic shifts in
a certain conversation.
a. Termination c. Topic shifting
b. Topic control d. Nomination
8. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Do you have anything to say?”
a. Nomination c. Turn taking
b. Topic control d. Termination
9. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
"One of the essential lessons I gained from the discussion is the importance of sports and wellness to a
healthy lifestyle.”
a. Turn taking c. Nomination
b. Restriction d. Topic shifting
10. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Excuse me? I think we should speak one at a time, so we can clearly understand what we want to say
about the issue.”
a. Termination c. Topic shifting
b. Repair d. Turn taking

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11. The ________ is a type of speech that aims to make the audience relax, enjoy, and even laugh.
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
12. It is mainly performed for the purpose of educating the audience on new or relevant piece of information
on a particular topic.
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
13. Is given solely for the purpose of convincing the audience to agree with the speaker’s opinion on a
particular topic.
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
14. It aims to share laughter and enjoyment to the audience through witty and humorous lines.
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
15. What type of Types of Speeches is used in this example? “Lecture of a teacher”
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
16. What type of Types of Speeches is used in this example? “Speech of a comedian”
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
17. What type of Types of Speeches is used in this example? “Speech of a lawyer”
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
18. The following are types of Speeches according to purpose EXCEPT __________?
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
19. The primary goal of a/an _______ is to influence the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, actions, or behaviors
of your listeners.
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech
20. The nature of a reporter’s job is to give an expository or ________?
a. Entertainment speech c. Informative speech
b. Impromptu speech d. Persuasive speech

II. Directions: Classify, identify, and analyze what communicative strategy used in the given statement. Use
CAPITAL LETTERS to write your answers in the space provided.

_________21. Anna commented, "I think the issue here is how to settle the problem between Paul and Peter,
not about who is to be blamed for?” In the situation which from the choices best describes the scenario?
_________22. When you were asked to deliver a speech in a specific language. What communicative strategy
is used in the given tasked?
_________23. In a conference, the president points at you as the secretary to read the minutes of the previous
meeting. What communicative strategy should be applied?
_________24. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
"Excuse me, but there are five Functions of Communication not four."
_________25. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Have you heard the news about the latest achievement of our government?”
_________26. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Hey, how are you? I missed you!”
_________27. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Best regards to your parents! See you around!”
_________28. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Sorry, I can’t decide on that now. I am still focused on my writing assignment. Let’s talk next
time, okay?”
_________29. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
“Now, it’s your turn to ask questions.”
_________30. What communicative strategy is used in the given statement below:
"I'm sorry, could you repeat your question please? I didn't hear it quite clearly. Thanks"

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III. TRUE OR FALSE
Identify whether each statement is true or false. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false in
the space provided.

_________ 31. The types of speeches according to purpose are informative speech, entertainment speech,
and persuasive speech.
_________ 32. Informative speech is delivering your speech with no preparation and notes.
_________ 33. Persuasive speech aims to influence your audience to change the way they think, and to
believe your ideas.
_________ 34. Entertainment speech aims to make your audience feel relaxed by enjoying your funny and
uplifting stories.
_________ 35. Persuasive speech aims to express essential information for your audience to understand a
concept or an idea.
_________ 36. Informative speech aims to convey information about any concept, object, event, or procedure
to an audience or a group of people.
_________ 37. Persuasive speech is the rote recitation of a written message that the speaker has committed
to memory.
_________ 38. Manuscript speech is when a speaker reads a pre-written speech.
_________ 39. Persuasive speech, informative speech, and entertainment speech are the presentation of a
short message without advance preparation and is for people knowledgeable about the subject.
_________ 40. Speech is the human nature to express thoughts and emotions.

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will
uphold you with my righteous right hand.
-Isaiah 41:10

Prepared by:
Jochebed L. Reyes
Subject teacher

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