ORAL COMMUNICATION WEEK 11-20

Oral Communication Grade 11 Exam Weeks 11-20

Oral Communication Grade 11 Exam Weeks 11-20

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Communication Barriers

Talking about dogs to someone who hates animals.

Answer: Attitudinal Barriers

What communication strategy was used to comfort the little boy after being shoved at the playground?

Answer: Pay attention to nonverbal cues and keep emotions at bay

What communication barrier occurred when Trevor failed to book rooms for the family vacation?

Answer: Attitudinal

Getting called on by the teacher you do not like.

Answer: Psychological Barriers

What barrier of communication transpired when Tessa and Jayson argued over unwashed dishes?

Answer: Systemic / Systematic

Resistance to believing in alternative medicine.

Answer: Attitudinal Barriers

Madeline snapping at her classmate due to her father’s death before her exam.

Answer: Psychological

Talking to a Japanese person who knows little English.

Answer: Language Barriers

Ethel’s classmates misunderstanding “langgam” as ants instead of a bird.

Answer: Language

Talking online using Skype.

Answer: Physical Barrier

A blind man talking to a child.

Answer: Physiological

The word “salvage” having a different meaning in the Philippines.

Answer: Language

Little Manuel’s teacher misunderstanding his colorblindness in coloring activities.

Answer: Physiological

There are how many communication barriers?

Answer: 7

Knowing when to say “no” is a barrier to communication.

Answer: False

What strategy was used by the mute gardener when listening to the army veteran’s stories?

Answer: Pay attention to nonverbal cues and keep emotions at bay

When idioms and jargons are used.

Answer: Language Barriers

What are the four basic ways to avoid communication barriers?

Answer: Practice active listening, Pay attention to nonverbal cues, Keep emotions at bay, Assert yourself

Functions of Communication

Positive motivation.

Answer: Improves relationship with self, with others, and enhances knowledge and skills

Social Anxiety.

Answer: When someone hesitates in interpersonal communication because of fear of what people will say / think about them

Shyness.

Answer: Avoidance of speaking in groups, public speaking or even in interpersonal situations

Laughing with a friend.

Answer: Communicating to connect

Creating a travel Vlog on YouTube.

Answer: Information

Identify the four functions of communication.

Answer: Regulation, motivation, expression, social interaction, information

What is communication anxiety?

Answer: When a person is afraid to speak in front of a large audience

Which function of communication is used when you go for a job interview?

Answer: Regulation

Physical barriers include geographic distance between source and receiver of message.

Answer: True

Context apprehension happens only when you feel anxious only in certain situations.

Answer: False

When you express your grief over a relative who died, which function of communication can you use?

Answer: Expression

Motivation is:

Answer: To stimulate someone to act

Motivation is always a positive experience.

Answer: False

Negative motivation results to?

Answer: Both Communication apprehension, Social Anxiety, Shyness or public speaking anxiety

Which function of communication is used when people watch news on television?

Answer: Expression

This determines which function of communication to use.

Answer: Speaker’s Purpose

Leading a business meeting shows the control/regulation function of communication.

Answer: True

The speaker's goal should always be considered when choosing which function to utilize.

Answer: True

Communication anxiety and social anxiety are the same.

Answer: False

This chapter's title.

Answer: Improves relationship with self, with others, and enhances knowledge and skills

Changing how you talk depending on who you are talking to.

Answer: Improves relationship with self, with others, and enhances knowledge and skills

Nonverbal and Verbal Communication

Which of these are the paralanguage elements?

Answer: Vocal quality, pitch, tempo, volume, junctures

It is the language of the body.

Answer: Kinesics

This is how language is used.

Answer: Pragmatics

Haptics is the study of which of the following?

Answer: Touch

Paralanguage is about how we sound.

Answer: True

Lowness or highness of tone of the voice.

Answer: Pitch

This refers to the how pleasant or unpleasant a person's voice sounds.

Answer: Vocal quality

Which of the following are the 2 forms of verbal communication?

Answer: Written and oral

Pragmatics is how language is used.

Answer: True

Business in the west is like hunting while business in the east is like planting rice. Which non-verbal language is this thinking attributed to?

Answer: Time

Different connotation/meanings.

Answer: Denotations

Morphology is how words are put together to form grammatically correct sentences.

Answer: False

What is the difference between non-verbal and verbal communications?

Answer: Verbal communication uses language or speech while nonverbal communication relies on Kinesics, proxemics, haptics, chronemics, appearance, artifacts, and paralanguage to convey the message

Haptics is the language of time.

Answer: False

Which of the following refers to pauses and stops made between thoughts or utterance?

Answer: Junctures

Pitch describes the force of the voice.

Answer: False

Writing is a form of verbal communication.

Answer: True

Facial ticks are what kind of non-verbal communication?

Answer: Kinesics

Which of these are the basic features of the human language?

Answer: Phonology, semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics

Proxemics is the study of which of the following?

Answer: Space

Syntax - how words are put together to form sentences.

Answer: True

Porcelain designs is under what kind of non-verbal communication?

Answer: Artifact

Pragmatics is the formation of words.

Answer: False

It is a form of communication which involves utterance of words, sentences and phrases.

Answer: Verbal Communication

Emotions such as nervousness or sadness can be heard through this paralanguage element.

Answer: Pitch

Junctures.ConcurrentHashMap are the pauses and breaks between utterances.

Answer: True

Voice quality is about.

Answer: Tone color

Volume describes the force of the voice.

Answer: True

How many basic features does the human language have?

Answer: 5

Too little may make you appear too rigid while too much may be too distracting and theatrical for the audience.

Answer: Arms and hands

This body language communicates control, authority, and belief. Standing straight emphasizes confidence.

Answer: Posture

These are the windows to our soul. Unconscious movements may work against the speaker.

Answer: Eyes

This element is about the clothes you choose to wear on specific events to convey a particular idea.

Answer: Appearance

Phonetics and Pronunciation

The voice box is located in the ________.

Answer: Larynx

The plural of ox is ________.

Answer: Oxen

Vocal chords are also vocal folds.

Answer: True

These are sounds produced when two vowels are combined which results to a blended sound within a syllable.

Answer: Diphthongs

What are the vowels in English?

Answer: [i:], [ɪ], [eɪ], [e], [æ], [ɒ], [ɔ], [oʊ], [u], [ʊəʳ], [ə]

Velar stops.

Answer: [k] and [g]

What are the three diphthongs in English?

Answer: [eɪ], [ɔɪ], and [aʊ]

The most versatile articulatory part inside the mouth.

Answer: Tongue

Bilabial stops.

Answer: [p] and [b]

One fowl is a goose, but two are called ________.

Answer: Geese

Alveolar stops.

Answer: [t] and [d]

________ refers to the length of time given to pronounce a vowel sound.

Answer: Vowel length

If one is a ________ and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Answer: Tooth

________ is the sound when there is an explosive release of air after it comes in contact with parts of the speech mechanism.

Answer: Aspiration

________ are created when air is not completely stopped but goes through with a hissing sound.

Answer: Fricatives

When ________ are used, Tone 4 is used.

Answer: Strong emotions

The main articulatory parts of the mouth.

Answer: Both Points of Articulation and Chief articulators are correct

Then one may be that, and three would be ________.

Answer: Those

The ________, would a pair be called beet.

Answer: Booth

________ should never be meese.

Answer: Mouse

The plural of pan be called ________.

Answer: Pans

The plural of house is ________.

Answer: Houses

If I spoke of my ________ and show you my feet.

Answer: Foot

How many vowel sounds are there in English?

Answer: 11

In what instance is Tone 4 used?

Answer: When strong emotions are expressed

What are the four tones of English?

Answer: 1 low, 2 normal, 3 high, 4 extra high

Consonants that sound vowel-like. There is no friction made when making the sounds.

Answer: Semi-vowels

This sound can be created when a stop is combined with a fricative.

Answer: Affricates

Produced when the air passes through the nose and not the mouth.

Answer: Nasal

For compound nouns, where does the stress go?

Answer: First syllable

[ʃ] session.

Answer: Middle

Choose I if sound is initial syllable, M if sound is in the middle or F if sound is found in the final syllable: Bamboo.

Answer: Final

Choose I if sound is initial syllable, M if sound is in the middle or F if sound is found in the final syllable: Baby.

Answer: Middle

Choose I if sound is initial syllable, M if sound is in the middle or F if sound is found in the final syllable: Those.

Answer: Initial

Choose I if sound is initial syllable, M if sound is in the middle or F if sound is found in the final syllable: Knowledge.

Answer: Initial

Choose I if sound is initial syllable, M if sound is in the middle or F if sound is found in the final syllable: Would.

Answer: Middle

Choose I if sound is initial syllable, M if sound is in the middle or F if sound is found in the final syllable: Thank.

Answer: Initial

The plural of cat is ________.

Answer: Cats

Communicative Strategies and Competencies

This strategy entails getting the attention of your audience/receiver.

Answer: Nomination

These are techniques on how to solve difficulties encountered when communicating.

Answer: Communicative strategies

This competence is the ability to use the appropriate words in a particular situation.

Answer: Sociolinguistic competence

This is the proficiency in syntax and morphology.

Answer: Grammatical competence

This strategy is when speakers take turns in raising their points, opinions or arguments.

Answer: Turn taking

Three or more people communicating.

Answer: Small group

The skill to smoothly move from one topic to another.

Answer: Topic shifting

Communicative competency and Communicative strategies are the same.

Answer: False

Four sub-categories of communicative competency.

Answer: Grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociological competence, and strategic competence

The act of artistically ending a conversation.

Answer: Termination

Communication with a large number of people with very little feedback going back to the sender.

Answer: Public communication

These are "future-oriented messages dealing with roles we call life scripts" and our relationship with other people mold this.

Answer: Expectation

These are learned personal orientation which we use when deciding right from wrong.

Answer: Beliefs

This is how we conduct ourselves toward others and yourself.

Answer: Behavior

The four elements affect our self-concept behavior, attitudes, values, and beliefs.

Answer: True

Attitudes are inborn.

Answer: False

How we see ourselves.

Answer: Self-concept

Focuses on looking outward.

Answer: Perception

Speech Preparation and Delivery

How high or low your tone is perceived.

Answer: Pitch

The loudness or softness of a sound.

Answer: Volume

How spoken words are arranged, alternating from stressed and unstressed elements.

Answer: Rhythm

Parts of the Introduction.

Answer: Attention getter, significance, credibility, thesis statement, preview, transition to first main point

Parts of a speech.

Answer: Introduction, Main body, Conclusion

This speech is delivered to entertain, to be enjoyed or to make the audience smile and relax.

Answer: Entertainment speech

There is no maximum or minimum length of speeches. It will depend on the purpose of the speech and the event where it will be used.

Answer: True

This is the correct articulation of words.

Answer: Enunciation

The final statement should also link back to the Intro.

Answer: True

This is the ability to express and speak smoothly without difficulty in using the appropriate words.

Answer: Fluency

This speech rallies people to either do or not do something.

Answer: Persuasive Speech

The very first part of a speech.

Answer: Attention getter

Speech preparation does not include an in depth research on information you will be using.

Answer: False

This part of the speech preparation process includes defining your goal.

Answer: Choosing the topic

You have to use this to be able to move from one part of a speech to another.

Answer: Transitions

There is only one type of speech and you can use it in all kinds of situations.

Answer: False

Object, process, event or concept are reasons why this kind of speech is given.

Answer: Expository speech

This refers to the speaker's credibility.

Answer: Ethos

This compels the persuasive speaker to be unbiased and free from special interests.

Answer: Selflessness

Name the factors in creating the rhythm of a speech.

Answer: Pitch, volume, enunciation, and fluency

This enables the audience to let the information sink in.

Answer: Pause

This method cannot make use of note cards or manuscripts but it must be delivered word-for-word.

Answer: Memorized Speech

Audience analysis is important when preparing speeches.

Answer: True

This part of the speech entails reviewing the main points.

Answer: Conclusion

This speech requires preparation and a word-for-word delivery. Speaker can move about freely as the speaker cannot use note cards nor manuscripts.

Answer: Memorized speech

Who said this "A speech has two parts. Necessarily you state your case, and you prove it"?

Answer: Aristotle

This speech brings light to things that happened, what is happening, and about to happen to make audiences more conscious of what is happening or happened in our world.

Answer: Speech about events

Delivering this speech only uses an outline as a guide.

Answer: Extemporaneous speech

This determines the length of speech.

Answer: Duration

This speech is delivered by reading a manuscript word-for-word.

Answer: Reading from manuscript

Fluency is frequently observed in this kind of speech.

Answer: Impromptu

This element is about creating an individual sound.

Answer: Articulation

Being an effective speaker and communicator is something you inherit.

Answer: False

Fear of standing and speaking in front of a group is context apprehension.

Answer: True

This is the most operational type of speech.

Answer: Consultative

Persuasion and Speech Acts

The act of causing people to do or believe in something.

Answer: Persuasion

Factual persuasive speech is based on the question ________.

Answer: Is it true?

Utterance.

Answer: Locution

This type of speech act defines the intention of the speaker.

Answer: Illocution

Intention.

Answer: Illocution

Language and Imagery

[W] = WHY.

Answer: Bilabial

According to Anne Miller, this is the core of language that surprises, grabs, informs, and persuades the readers as mere explanation will not.

Answer: Imagery

This allows the speaker to make extraordinary meaning out of the mundane.

Answer: Metaphor

Pronunciation Comparison (Listening Assessment)

Spell out the two words for number 1.

Answer: Least - List

Spell out the two words for number 2.

Answer: Cough - Cuff

Spell out the two words for number 3.

Answer: Black - Block

Spell out the two words for number 4.

Answer: Pot - Pat

Spell out the two words for number 5.

Answer: Cut - Cot

Spell out the two words for number 6.

Answer: Hot - Hut

Spell out the two words for number 7.

Answer: Cheap - Chip

Spell out the two words for number 8.

Answer: Did - Deed

Spell out the two words for number 9.

Answer: Fit - Feet

Spell out the two words for number 10.

Answer: Green - Grin

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the main types of communication barriers?

The seven main communication barriers are attitudinal, psychological, systemic/systematic, language, physical, physiological, and cultural, each affecting how messages are sent or received based on emotions, language differences, or physical limitations.

How do communicative strategies improve interactions?

Communicative strategies like nomination, turn-taking, and topic shifting help structure conversations, engage audiences, and resolve misunderstandings, ensuring smoother and more effective communication in various contexts.

Why is paralanguage important in communication?

Paralanguage, including pitch, volume, tempo, and vocal quality, conveys emotions and emphasis, enhancing the meaning of verbal messages and helping listeners interpret the speaker’s intent and mood.

What role does audience analysis play in speech preparation?

Audience analysis helps tailor the speech’s content, tone, and delivery to the audience’s interests, knowledge level, and cultural background, ensuring the message is relevant, engaging, and impactful.

How do diphthongs affect English pronunciation?

Diphthongs, like [eɪ], [ɔɪ], and [aʊ], are vowel combinations that blend two sounds within a syllable, adding complexity to English pronunciation and requiring precise articulation for clarity.

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