Northwestern Agusan Colleges

Bayview Hill, Nasipit, Agusan del Norte

ORAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT

1st Prelim-1st Grading

NAME: Year & Strand:

NOTE: Erasures will be automatically marked wrong.
If you will leave one question unanswered, you will be marked zero in this exam.

I. True or False. Write your answer on the space provided. (2 pts. each)

___________ 1. Ineffective communication can affect relationship.

___________ 2. Many lost opportunities are caused by careless and effective communication.
___________ 3. Psychological noise refers to the attitude of either the speaker or the listener towards
one another.
___________ 4. An act of smiling is a form of communication.
___________ 5. Whatever knowledge a person has acquired over the years does not matter as long as
he or she communicates effectively.
___________ 6. Communication comes in one form.
___________ 7. How a conversation starts may not be consistent with how it ends.
___________ 8. In order for effective communication to take place, the message should be clear to the
receiver.
___________ 9. Communication is not an object that we can grasp, but it is an activity in which people
need to participate.
___________ 10. It doesn’t matter that the sender and the receiver speak the same language.
___________ 11. Communication only involves spoken and written words.
___________ 12. A student thinking of his lost father while attending classes is an example of
physiological noise.
___________ 13. Feedback is given either verbally or nonverbally.
___________ 14. Another reason for communication breakdown is when the sender says one thing but
shows an entirely contrastive gesture.
___________ 15. The cycle of communication is complete without feedback.

II. Identify the type of space shown in each situation below. Write your answer in the blank
before each number. (2 pts. each)

_______________________________ 1. A priest delivering his homily.

_______________________________ 2. A patient consulting his doctor regarding his illness.
_______________________________ 3. A mother sharing a bedtime story with her five-year old child
lying on bed.
_______________________________ 4. A teacher discussing a lesson in class.
_______________________________ 5. Two friends walking side by side, laughing at each other’s
jokes.

III. Identify the meaning of silence in each of the given situations below. Write your answers
in the space provided. (5 pts. each)

1. At the conference after the speaker’s talk on global warming, during the open forum, no one
dared to ask questions. Everyone was silent.
 2. J and L were good friends but one time they had a serious fight. When the fight was over, J
realized that she was at fault and asked for forgiveness but L did not say anything but remained
silent.

3. Mr. Love paused (silence) for a few seconds before he announced this good news: As my way of
thanking all of you, Writers’ Guild Staff, for winning several awards in the national press
conference. I requested for an all-expense-paid out-of-town trip from the administration and
(silence-he paused again for 10 seconds) it was approved.

4. When the class was asked who among them would like to volunteer to recite the poem, Sonnet
18, no one responded. The class remained silent.

5. Teacher Love asked her class who among them was responsible to accidentally breaking a
cylinder after yesterday’s Science experiment. Everyone remained silent.

Prepared by:
LOVENDA D. BITCO
Approved by:
MRS. MARIA LUZ J. GOLOSINO, MSTM
Principal