Preparazione esame Inglese

DOMANDE ESAME SCORSO

1- Consider the following sentence and identify the phraseological phenomenon of the phrase

underlined. I can't belive it. Are you pulling my leg? ...It is an idiom

2- Which of the following is a frozen collocation? ...Dead tired

3- The greographical spread of English ...Is the result of centuries of expansion by Anglophone

countries throughout all continents

4- What linguistic information do you not normally find in a learner's dictionary? ...Etymology

5-The word actually in English means ... in reality

identify the string of free morphemes ...and, book, sing

6- Register defines ...Whether the language you use is formal of informal

7- The UK, the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa ...Can be grouped in the cicle

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of ENL countries

The spread of English in the world has been caused by ...All the reasons above

9- The English language ...Is spoken in all continents as a native, second or foreign language

10- Identify the phraseological phenomenon in the expression humid weather ... It is a collocation

11- The Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles ...Convers the English language from the

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14th century

"Knowing a word" means ...To know its pronunciation, meaning, grammatical profile and

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phraseology

Consider the following sentence and identify the phraseological phenomenon of the phrase

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underlined. I would love to go out but i have a lot to do. In other words. I dont't have time ...It is a

discourse organizer

In linguistic, a word is ...A unit of grammar, orthographically preceded and followed by spaces

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or punctuation marks, normally expressing a single meaning

In the sentence "She dances like a butterfly", the word butterfly ... expresses connotative

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meaning

EFL Means English as a Foreign Language

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Corpora show that statistically the most frequently used words in a language are Articles,

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prepositions and conjunctions

Which of the following is not an Anglicism in present-day Italian? al fresco

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The label "New Englishes" refers to.... ESL varieties of former British colonies

20- In the peak British Empire (late 19th century) English was already present in all continents

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In the 21st century, the English language will continue to be a polycentric language

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In word formation, the word unhelpful is an example of Derivation

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In ESL contries, the English language Is used in many areas of social life, the mass media,

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administration, education and business

Comment on the relationship between the verbs carry out and put of They are both phrasal

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verbs

Which statement correctly explains the semantic connection in the following chain of words?

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"to see, watch, sport, notice, observe, regard” They below to the same semantic fleid of seeng

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Indicate which of the following underfined words is an exocentric compound The book is sold

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in paperback edition

What is the name of the sense relation existing between the words shy and timid? Synonymy

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Reference or denotative meaning denotes an entity in the real world that a word refers to

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Fill in the blank with the right word. Depression is a form of severe [trasform happy into a

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negative noun] Unhappiness

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