Chapter 5 Quiz

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. Which of the following sequences best describes how students learn to recount across the years of schooling?

historical recounts ^ biographies ^ procedural recounts ^ personal recounts correct incorrect

procedural recounts and historical recounts ^ personal recounts ^ historical accounts correct incorrect

procedural recounts ^ historical accounts ^ personal recounts correct incorrect

personal recounts ^ procedural recounts and historical recounts ^ historical accounts correct incorrect

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. Identification of Subject ^ Episodes ^ Significance is the typical structure of a:

literacy recount correct incorrect

narrative correct incorrect

historical account correct incorrect

biography correct incorrect

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. Which one of the following is a dominant language pattern of recount texts?

Circumstances of time and place correct incorrect

Relating processes correct incorrect

Emotive language correct incorrect

Commands correct incorrect

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. In the sentence The next year, my family moved to Sydney 'moved' is a:

none of the above correct incorrect

Circumstance correct incorrect

Participant correct incorrect

Process correct incorrect

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. In the following sentence, Operation Overlord ultimately resulted in the destruction of German forces and the defeat of Germany, 'The destruction of German forces' is an example of:

nominalisation correct incorrect

a coordinating conjunction. correct incorrect

designed-in scaffolding correct incorrect

reference correct incorrect

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. Read Text A.

TEXT A: THE CHEETAH'S HUNT
A hot breeze fanned the top of the savannah grass. The grass swayed slightly, testing the sun-based grass in which its roots were embedded. Crouched low among the grass, paws barely touching the hard ground, lay a cheetah. His fierce amber eyes were riveted on a herd of wildebeest …

This is an extract from a:

factual recount correct incorrect

personal recount correct incorrect

narrative correct incorrect

literary recount correct incorrect

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. Fanned, swayed, testing, crouched, touching, lay, were riveted are examples of:

sensing verbs correct incorrect

relating verbs correct incorrect

action verbs correct incorrect

saying verbs correct incorrect

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. In Text A, 'his' refers to the cheetah. The use of language resources to make a text cohesive by referring back to something or someone mentioned elsewhere in the text like this is called:

mode continuum correct incorrect

tenor correct incorrect

nominalisation correct incorrect

reference correct incorrect

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. Which of the following activities are closest to the more 'spoken-like' end of the mode continuum?

blogging and emailing correct incorrect

news, sharing time and oral recounts correct incorrect

debates and multimodal compositions for public presentations correct incorrect

small group problem solving tasks correct incorrect

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. Why is the mode continuum a useful construct for teachers?

It helps students understand the different features of spoken and written language correct incorrect

It supports teachers to plan activities that assist students to acquire written language correct incorrect

It helps teachers consider the language demands of different kinds of activities correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect