Department of Education: English For Academic and Professional Purposes
Department of Education: English For Academic and Professional Purposes
Department of Education: English For Academic and Professional Purposes
Department of Education
REGION III-CENTRAL LUZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF ZAMBALES
GUISGUIS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
BRGY. GUISGUIS, STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES
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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND C. The topic sentence, the body and the
PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES conclusion.
PRE-TEST D. None of the above
_______6.What is the purpose of the topic
sentence?
NAME: _________________________________
A. To give coherence to the paragraph.
GRADE & SECTION: ___________________ B. To help with the flow of sentences.
C. To help the reader understand what the
Directions: Read the statements below and paragraph will be about.
choose the best answer. Write your answers D. None of the above
before the number. NO ERASURES. _______7.What is 'academic writing'?
A. A technique to write balanced, accurate
_______1. Who are the target readers of an and professional assignments
academic essay? B. An old-fashioned way of writing.
A. Parents, workers, teachers C. How university professors write.
B. Teachers, students, academic community D. The writing you find in textbooks
C. Students, out-of-school youth, government _______8.Choose three words to describe
officials academic writing:
D. None of the above A. Talented, stylish, inspiring
_______2.What are the purposes of doing an B. Precise, clear, objective
academic writing? C. Decisive, divisive, derisive
A. To settle, to negotiate and to inform D. Subjective, obscure, vague
B. To defend, to challenge and to question _______9.What is true of the introductory
C. To inform, to persuade and to argue a paragraph?
specific point A. ends with the thesis.
D. To guess, to hypothesize and to make B. introduces the big idea of the essay
conclusions C. starts with a hook
_______3.Writing academic papers requires D. all of these
deliberate, thorough and careful thought. _______10.What is the sequence of an essay?
Therefore, what should one do to achieve a A. Introduction, Body Paragraph, Body
well-crafted academic essay? Paragraph, Conclusion
A. One must depend on his/her own opinions B. Body Paragraph, Introduction, Conclusion,
alone. Body Paragraph
B. One must conduct a research on the topic C. Introduction, Body Paragraph, Conclusion,
at hand. Body Paragraph
C. One must not consult the Internet for D. Conclusion, Introduction, Body Paragraph,
unsure sources. Body Paragraph
D. One must depend highly on the Internet _______11. As long as you know your tutor,
for easy information access. you don't need to use a formal style of
_______4.An academic essay must use writing. It's good to be friendly.
appropriate vocabulary words but not too A. Some tutors like you to be formal but some
pretentious, highfalutin words. Which among don't mind as long as you do the work.
these words is the simplified version of the B. You only need to be formal in exams, not
term, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"? regular coursework.
A. beautiful; pretty C. It's good to be friendly but always use
B. exquisite; one-of-a-kind formal English when you write assignments.
C. extraordinarily good; wonderful D. Formal English is too old-fashioned these
D. hardworking; industrious days
_______5.What are the three main parts of an _______12.Contractions are:
essay? A. what happens when you have a baby
A. The hook, the main idea and the B. when someone says the opposite to you
conclusion. C. when something is too narrow
B. The introduction, the body and the D. a shortened form of a word
conclusion. _______13.Which example is correct?
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION III-CENTRAL LUZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF ZAMBALES
GUISGUIS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
BRGY. GUISGUIS, STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES
___________________________________________________________________________________________________