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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which one is considered as linguistic communication?

Raising of eyebrows

Posting status in English on your Facebook

Moving hands in different gestures

Clenching of fists

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is not true about the language?

Many animals have languages much like human languages.

Language is a linguistic code.

The speaker and the listener have to share the same linguistic code in order to understand each other.

We simply don't know how language originated.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is symptomatic sign?

Traffic lights

Icons

Grimacing face

Pictographs

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is correct about the origin of language?

We simply don't know how language originated.

Some believed that language is the present from gods.

The primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds.

All answers are correct.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is "onomatopoeia"?

Language that echoed natural sounds.

It consists of sounds and meaning.

The pictures that the primitive people painted on the cave wall.

Human speech sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is not true about language?

Correct spelling preserves a language.

The same words in the same order don't always mean the same thing.

All language reflect social and cultural aspects of a society.

It's easier to learn English if you are in the environment where English is used all the time.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

There is no connection between form and meaning. How can we call it.

Displacement

Discreteness

Arbitrariness

Productivity

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