This document contains a quiz about the English language with multiple choice and short answer questions. It covers topics like the spread and varieties of English around the world, differences between American and British English, and influences on languages like Australian English. At the end, there is a short reflection noting how preparing an assessment like this helps students learn effectively and practice important evaluative skills that will be useful in their future careers as teachers and researchers interacting with diverse groups of people.

1. Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción
Facultad de educación
Pedagogía Media en Inglés
Lexical Analysis: Quiz 1 – The English Language
Name: ________________________________________________ Points:______/31pMark: ______
I. Choose between T or F, if the sentence is True or False. (1p each)
1 _____ After 1600, English speakers started to spread around the world looking for exploration, trade, forced and
voluntary migration and wars.
2 _____ The British and Australians were the first to become affected by the spread of the English language by the
migration
3 _____ The grammar of the Englishes differ in morphology and syntax
4 _____ The British East India Company was a trading company which their main interests were established in America
5 _____ In South Africa eleven languages are official and eight are unofficial.
6 _____ The varieties of English exhibit spelling differences between American and British.
7 _____ Canadian English is identified just by the British English
8 _____ The term “dialect” has generally been used to refer to a subordinate variety of language.
9 _____ The term “dialect” does not have historical connotations.
10. _____ Varieties of language are part of a continuum in social and geographical space and time.
11. _____ The pacific does not contain indigenous languages
II. Match the concepts from Colum A with the concepts from the Colum B (1p each)
Colum A Colum B
1. Autonomous and Heteronymous ____ Knowledge of rules of grammar
2. Speech Community ____Form of pronouncing a variety
3. Competence ____Variations of a language conditioned by
uses rather than user.
4. RP ____Group of people who do not necessarily
share the same language
5. Register ____Speech varieties useful as alternative labels
to language and dialect
6. Accent ____Consider the equivalent of a standard
English pronunciation, Particularly in England.

2. Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción
Facultad de educación
Pedagogía Media en Inglés
Lexical Analysis: Quiz 1 – The English Language
III. Choose the correct alternative. (2p each)
1-Australian Grammar has a lot of influence from
A) Irish English
b) American English
c) Canadian English
2-A major shift in many English languages is
a) The addition of plural endings in adjectives
b) The addition of many different verbal endings
c) The elimination of many different verbal endings
3-American English words from immigrants came from
a) African Language, Asian Language
b)European Language, African Language
c) Asian Language, European Language
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. What were the reasons of the spread of the English, and which are the main consequences of it? (5p)
2. Name three types of differences between American and British English and provide one example of each.
(3p)

3. Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción
Facultad de educación
Pedagogía Media en Inglés
Lexical Analysis: Quiz 1 – The English Language
Answer key.
I. 1. T II. 1.a III. 1. 3
2. F 2.c 2. 6
3. T 3.b 3. 5
4. F 4. 2
5. T 5. 1
6. T 6. 4
7. F
8. T
9. F
10. T
11. F
IV. 1.The reasons of the spread of English were because of colonialism, migration and globalization.
The consequences are the marginalization and the loss of linguistic diversity.
2. Grammar: Jane had gotten used to it for American, Jane had got used to it for British.
Pronunciation: ate /eit/ for American, /et/ for British.
Vocabulary: Sam took the elevator for American; Sam took the lift for British.

4. Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción
Facultad de educación
Pedagogía Media en Inglés
Lexical Analysis: Quiz 1 – The English Language
Reflections on the task.
Doing this assignment was helpful to accomplish the objectives of the
course and also to learn a little bit more about our future as teachers. Preparing a
test can help us to see the contents in a different way, to think as a teacher would
think and to reflect on the topic the text where about. And for this reason, the
knowledge is fixed in our minds easily. On the other hand, we could not only learn
about the contents of the course, but also practice on our evaluative skills. As
teachers, we will have to prepare this kind of material regularly, so it is better if we
train on our teaching skills as much as we can.
The topics of this assignment could not be more appropriate for us, not only
for our roll as teachers, but also as researchers. We will have to speak with all kind
of people in our lives, so we will have to cope with many accents and dialects,
which will depend on socio-economical and geographical background. And to
perform in English in a better way it is compulsory to master the dialect differences
as much as we can.
For the reasons above, we can uphold that this task was not only propitious
but also necessary to our development as students, future teachers and even as
academics.