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Which Old English long epic poem features mythical creatures and a hero?. The Wanderer. Beowulf. The Battle of Maldon. The Dream of the Rood.

What is the main objective of the CLIL teaching approach in Europe?. 1+2 language policy (competence in a mother tongue + 2 EU foreign languages). 1+1 language policy (competence in a mother tongue + 1 EU foreign language). 1 language policy (competence in 1 EU foreign language). 2 language policy (competence in 2 EU foreign languages).

In English, the process of beginning a sentence with an element that is not the subject is called: Fronting. Inversion. Suppletion. Conversion.

Complete the sentence with the correct option: I __________ her birthday and I __________ know how to make it up to her. Completely forgot / don't just know. Completely forgot / just don't know. Forgot completely / don't just know. Forgot completely / just don't know.

Which are the two main types of vocabulary learning?. Repetition and incidental. Repetition and contextual. Intentional and incidental. Intentional and repetition.

At the end of the 9th century, king Alfred contributed to the change from Latin to English (West Saxon dialect) as a language of learning. How?. By forbidding Latin. By launching a programme of translations from Latin into the vernacular. By writing the Old English poem Beowulf. By rejecting and forbidding Christianism.

Which of the following is not a linking word expressing contrast?. Hence. However. Although. Despite.

Complete the sentence with the correct option: Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into comedies, histories, tragic comedies and _________. Tragedies. Dramas. Sonnets. Morality plays.

What is the main focus of the Audio-Lingual Method when teaching and learning grammar?. The acquisition of functional language. The acquisition of grammatical patterns through repetition. The study of vocabulary lists. The study of grammar and vocabulary through the translation of texts.

Which famous work of the Middle English Literature consists of a series of linked stories that uses the London area and English society as a setting where pilgrims tell tales on their destination?. The Canterbury Tales. Magnificence. The Castle of Perseverance. Troilus and Criseyde.

One of the most common word-formation processes is the derivation, which consists of…. Not adding an affix to the base but changing the stress from one syllable to another. The joint of two or more words to produce a single word. The combination of affixes and roots which is not predictable for the reader sometimes. The word-conversion process whereby a lexical item is adapted from one grammatical class to another without an affix.

Select the incorrect statement about Middle English: Middle English did not include French and Latin vocabulary and morphology. Layamon wrote Brut (first national epic in English) in Middle English. Middle English is the language in which Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written. Middle English includes loan words from French.

The polysemous collocations... have a literal meaning. have a figurative meaning that is not derivable from their component words. have a figurative meaning. can have both and literal and figurative meaning.

Word order for indirect questions is a particularly problematic issue for learners when studying: Reported Speech. Passive voice. Future Perfect. Third Conditional.

The play belonging to the Elizabethan and Jacobean literature about a promising scholar whose ambition and will to knowledge leads him to a pact wth the Devil is…. The Defense of Poesy. The Fox. Doctor Faustus. The Faerie Queen.

Complete each sentence with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous: 1. Last night my neighbours ________ for hours and I couldn’t get to sleep. were shouting. shouted. shouting. shout.

Last night I _______ my hair when Helen _______. washed/ was phoning. was washing/ was phoning. washed/ phoned. was washing / phoned.

I ……………………… in a café when you …………………. was sitting / called. sat / were calling. were sitting / called. sat / called.

If you came to the theatre when they asked you, you would have enjoyed the play. True. False.

If you don’t waste so much money, I wouldn’t get angry with you. True. False.

If you had arrived on time, we would have caught the train. True. False.

The Audio-Lingual Method focused on the acquisition of new vocabulary. True. False.

The Communicative language teaching method was a turning point in vocabulary teaching. True. False.

The Audio-Lingual Method was developed in America (based on behaviourism), its main focus was the acquisition of grammatical patterns through repetition and only familiar words were explicitly taught. True. False.

Choose the best position for this adverb: usually. He ______ plays better than this. ______, he plays better than this.

Choose the correct linking word: He went to work …………. feeling ill. in spite of. although. even though.

Generally, writers in the Middle English period (from 1066-1485) were always consistently using English in their works and French was never used. True. False.

There are no female authors in English medieval literature. True. False.

The Canterbury Tales is a series of linked stories that use the London area and English society as a setting, where pilgrims to Canterbury tell tales on the way to their destination. True. False.

Only members of the nobility, the court and educated people went to see the performances in the theatre in Elizabethan times was only. True. False.

Renaissance authors dedicated themselves to writing exclusively. True. False.

In the Renaissance theatre developed completely separated from the Church. Plays were no longer performed inside a church and they did not deal with religious themes. True. False.

Ben Jonson was the most important playwright of Jacobean theatre. True. False.

Cromwell was crowned king and ruled with the help of Parliament. True. False.

The British Restoration involved a Restoration of the nation to the Catholic faith. True. False.

Restoration theatre is known for the comedy of manners. True. False.

Romanticism is associated with. depiction of everyday reality. the restraint of victorian moral. an overflow of intense feeling.

Romanticism is associated with. find correspondence for their mental state in natural landscapes. are given realistic speech patterns and details (local colouring).

The term ‘Raj’ refers to the presence of the British Empire in India since the arrival of the East India Company until the Independence of India from the British Empire. True. False.

The Highlands recovered from the clearances in the nineteenth century. True. False.

The economic crisis of 1929 and the Great Depression affected not only the US, but the whole world. True. False.

The First World War was only fought in the European context. True. False.

The use of the technique of the stream of consciousness is a distinctive feature of modernist narrative. True. False.

The traditional form of the novel was the most popular form among modernist authors. True. False.

Jim Crow Laws regulated the equal access of all Americans to all public facilities and installations since the 19th century. True. False.

In 1957 it was made illegal by law to prevent the vote of any black American citizen. True. False.

The second wave of feminist movement occurred in the 1960s-1970s and its concern was women’s fight for equal legal and social rights and sexual and reproductive freedom. True. False.

What's the main work for postcolonial literary criticism that was the first major theoretical account od the postcolonial relationship between texts and issues of this period's culture and history?. A Passage to India. The Empires Write Back. The Tempest. Orientalism.

In which work does the author Steinbeck depict the Depression era in America?. The Great Gatsby. The Grapes of Wrath. The Wasteland. The Sun also Rises.

English children's literature has been presented as an idealised vision of childhood, however, in the 1950s, ________ presents the concept of the child's dissatisfaction and aloofness in a chaotic world governed by adults. Enid Blyton. J.K. Rowling. J.D. Salinger. C.S. Lewis.

The first American literature work is thought to have been created by... John Smith. Thomas Paine. Benjamin Franklin. John Dickinson.

The question of physical power and moral righteousness in social life is dealt in... The rape of the lock. Gulliver's travels. Tom jones. The Spectator.

Which author is considered the father of the free verse and his poetry scandalised the moral of the 19th century America?. Mark Twain. Walt Whitman. Edgar Allan Poe. Ralp Waldo Emerson.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is considered the earliest work of feminist philosophy. Who wrote it?. Virginia Woolf. Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft. Amelie Earhart.

In Things Fall Apart, ________ narrates the devastation of Nigeria by British colonists and the consequent effects on this country's identity and culture. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Chinua Achebe. Jean Rhys. Edward Said.

Which author contributed to the development of the novel in English in the 20th c. with new techniques of narrative experimentation and, at the same time, depicts the lives of ordinary people with realism?. John Buchan. James Joyce. Agatha Christie. P.G. Wodehouse.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald narrates... The corruption, the frivolous lifestyle of the wealthy and death of the American dream. the depression era in america. the artistic scene of1920s Paris. the life of an ordinary person in america.

Which of the following features would you use to teach young children about Gothic literature?. Industrialisation/ stiff upper lip / Charles Dickens. Republic / Puritanism / Enlightenment. Edgar Allan Poe / detective stories / tortured characters. Beowulf / old english / King Afred.

The author who incorporated trascendentalism and realism in his works in the 19th c. american literature was... Gaskell. Dickens. Whitman. George Elliot.

_________ was an artistic movement from the 19th c. that redefined literature and every aspect of society by questioning and overthrowing old values and systems. Modernism. Enlightenment. Feudalism. Romanticism.

Which of the following features would you use to teach your students the Victorian period?. Republic / puritanism / enlightenment. catholicism / origins of colonialism / shakespeare's plays. middle english / canterbury tales / latin. industrialisation / stiff upper lip / scientific advances.

John Milton composed the poem Paradise Lost... where he depicts a speaker's desperate plea to God to return to the speaker's soul. where he reflects the time of spiritual change and challenges. where he exposes his views on religion and authority in England. It tells the story of the fall of the man in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. where he addresses a woman who has been slow to respond to his romantic advances.