QUESTIONS, TASKS AND TESTS FOR SELF-CONTROL ON PART 6
I.
Find the American English equivalents for these British English words.
lift, n
flat, n
sweets, n
petrol, n
post, n
rubbish, n
trousers, n
eggplant, n
II.
Say how the following words are written in the American English variant:
humour, metre, travelled, catalogue, programme, waggon, honour, centre,
dialogue, organise
III.
Do the following multiple-choice test. Mind that there can be only 1
correct answer to each test question.
1.
Which of the following is a language?
a)
Ebonics
b)
Afrikaans
c)
Indian English
d)
American English
e)
Australian English
2.
Canadian and American English are often grouped together as …
a)
American dialect
b)
Common American English
c)
South American English
d)
Mid-Atlantic English
e)
North American English
3.
Which of the following is a Canadianism?
a)
war path
b)
sombrero
c)
tuxedo
d)
catfish
e)
bear walker
4.
The British
chemist’s
is the American word:
a)
drugstore
b)
drug-taker
c)
drug-eater
d)
drug-addict
e)
drugs
5.
Which of the following words is an Americanism?
a)
centre
b)
labor
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c)
theatre
d)
criticise
e)
behaviour
6.
Find an Americanism among the following words:
a)
humour
b)
centre
c)
colour
d)
organise
e)
crystallize
7.
The word „boomerang‟, once an Aboriginal word, came to many languages
all over the world from…
a)
African American Vernacular English
b)
Australian English
c)
American English
d)
Canadian English
e)
Jamaican English
8.
In some regions of India the word „school‟ is pronounced as … .
a)
[shu:l]
b)
[sko:l]
c)
[isku:l]
d)
[ʃu:l]
e)
[shola]
9.
About a third of Australian place-names are …
a)
Aboriginal
b)
taken over from Sanskrit
c)
taken over from Navajo
d)
French
e)
Spanish
10.
Which of the following peculiarities is not characteristic for the Indian
variant of English?
a)
„One‟ is used more often than the indefinite article.
b)
Present Perfect can be used instead of Past Simple.
c)
In Indian English there are used numerous borrowings from Hindi, Bengali,
Sanskrit.
d)
It has a great number of borrowings from the Eskimo languages.
e)
Interrogative constructions may be formed without inversion.
11.
Ebonics is … .
a)
another term for African American Vernacular English
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b)
a branch of linguistics studying the origin of words
c)
English vulgar language
d)
a branch of linguistics dealing with the study of scientific terms
e)
another term for acoustic phonetics
12.
Ebonics is used by many contemporary writers, … is one of them.
a)
George Martin
b)
C.S. Lewis
c)
Ken Kesey
d)
Toni Morrison
e)
Stephanie Meyer
13.
It is generally considered that the term „Ebonics‟ was introduced by…
a)
Samuel Johnson
b)
David Crystal
c)
Guy Deutscher
d)
Noah Chomsky
e)
Robert R. Williams
14.
„Jail on a large scale‟ – this attribute was often used to describe… of the
18
th
-19
th
centuries.
a)
India
b)
the USA
c)
Canada
d)
Australia
e)
the South African Republic
15.
Consonant cluster reduction word-finally (test
tes, desk
des) is a
phonological feature typical for…
a)
Scottish
b)
Indian English
c)
Canadian English
d)
General American
e)
African American Vernacular English
16.
Which of the following varieties of English is in many areas influenced by
French?
a)
Canadian
b)
AAVE
c)
Indian
d)
Cockney
e)
Australian
17.
The name of the letter Z sounds as [zee] in …
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a)
Great Britain
b)
the USA
c)
Australia
d)
Germany
e)
Spain
18.
The word „fall‟ in the meaning of „autumn‟ is…
a)
a historical Americanism
b)
a proper Americanism
c)
a Canadianism
d)
a slang word
e)
an American shortening
19.
Which of the following is not an Americanism?
a)
tuxedo
b)
candy
c)
aubergine
d)
elevator
e)
sidewalk
20.
Which of the following is not an Indian (Native American) borrowing?
a)
squaw
b)
banjo
c)
tomahawk
d)
moccasin
e)
wigwam
21.
Which of the following is not an Indian (Native American) borrowing?
a)
Ohio
b)
Illinois
c)
Michigan
d)
Tennessee
e)
Florida
22.
„I bought some small small things.‟ Such kind of emphatic reduplication is
typical for…
a)
Australian English
b)
Cockney
c)
Indian English
d)
American English
e)
Ebonics
23.
Such words as „yoga‟, „yogi‟, „chakra‟, „ananda‟ came to Indian English
from…
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a)
Bengali
b)
Swahili
c)
Arabic
d)
Sanskrit
e)
Turkish
24.
Noah Webster is …
a)
a famous Canadian writer
b)
a famous African-American writer
c)
a famous explorer of Australia
d)
the 13
th
president of the US
e)
the person who initiated the spelling reform of the American variety of
English
25.
The third largest English-speaking country in the world is...
a)
India
b)
Australia
c)
Canada
d)
Ireland
e)
China
26.
What‟s used rather than the indefinite article in IndE?
a)
one
b)
this
c)
that
d)
any
e)
some
27.
IndE is rhotic. What does it mean?
a)
[r] is never pronounced
b)
[r] is pronounced in all positions
c)
[r] is pronounced at the end of the syllable
d)
[r] is pronounced when it follows a vowel
e)
[r] is pronounced when it follows a consonant
28.
How is the word „vase‟ pronounced in American English?
a)
[va:z]
b)
[veiz]
c)
[va:s]
d)
[væz]
e)
[va:zə:]
29.
Where do the English speakers prefer to use diphthongs instead of
monophthongs?
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a)
India
b)
Scotland
c)
Australia
d)
New-York City
e)
Canada
30.
In which variant of pronunciation is
t
voiced between vowels?
a)
American
b)
Cockney
c)
Scottish
d)
Northern
e)
Australian
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