Name: Christian Jay D.

Geolina
Purposive Communication
TTH: 13:00-14:30
Belle C. Manlapig

Activity
I. Study the following words. Which spelling is correct? Which is incorrect? Justify your answers.
1. Aeroplane - is an alternative spelling of the same word. Specifically, it is the way British English
users would spell it.

2. Airplane – (American standard) is sometimes shortened to simply plane. Aircraft is a synonym,

which functions as both a singular or plural noun.
3. Colonise – The original and old spellings of the word are with an s and are used extensively in
British English.
4. Colonize – The new revolutionized spellings of the word are with a “z” instead of an “s” used in
American English.
5. Defence - is used in British English.
6. Defense - is used in American English.
7. Enrolment -  is the spelling that is used in the British English.
8. Enrollment - Enrollment is standard in American English.
9. Honor - is the preferred spelling in American English to American audiences.
10. Honour - Honour is the British English spelling of the same word. It can be used in all of the
same contexts as honor.
--- No words are incorrectly spelled but it differentiates on the one who will use and to the audience—
British or American Standard, where you are or what standard you are familiar with.

II. Read each statement carefully and decide if it is true or false. If the statement is false, rewrite or revise
it to make it true.
1. Not all languages have a grammar system. ____FALSE_________
All languages have rules and grammar system.
2. Change happens to all languages. _______FALSE______________
In some languages changes happens.
3. The first language that a child acquires is called mother tongue. _____TRUE______________
 4. All living creatures have the capacity for language. ______FALSE___________
Only human beings are truly capable of producing language.
5. Two people who do not speak the same language will never be able to communicate with each
other. ______FALSE________
Two people who do not speak the same language will be able to communicate as you slowly learn
each other’s languages. Language Contact.

Reflect on the concepts presented in the input and connect these to your personal experience of language
by creating your own Language Biography.
• Guide questions
1. How many languages do you speak? Identify these languages.
- Cebuano/Visaya
- Illongo
- Tagalog
- English

2. What is/are your first language/s?

- Cebuano/Visaya

3. How did you acquire your first language/s?

- My Parents taught me and my environment

4. What skills can you perform using your first language?

- Sing and Negotiate

5. What is/are your second language/s?

- Tagalog
6. How did you learn your second language?
- In school, formal and informal.

7. What skills can you perform using your second language?

- Helping someone to understand my first language through translation.

8. What are your language strengths? Weaknesses?

It is easy to learn.
Sometimes, it is confusing.

9. Which language is your favorite and why?

- Cebuano/Visaya, I am confident because I am sure that I am good to it. I can fully express what I feel in
different ways. Every time I meet someone anywhere, if I hear them speaking same with my native
language it’s so easy to talk to them and having a conversation that it seems so easy to make a bridge or
connection to someone whom you know you have the same language.

My Language Biography
The Cebuano language (/sɛˈbwɑːnoʊ/), colloquially referred to by most of its speakers simply
as Bisaya/Binisaya,[8] is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines, namely in Central
Visayas, western parts of Eastern Visayas and on the majority of Mindanao. The language originates from
the island of Cebu, and is spoken primarily by various Visayan ethnolinguistic groups who are native to
those areas, mainly the Cebuanos.[9] While Filipino (Tagalog) has the largest number of speakers of
Philippine languages, Cebuano had the largest native language-speaking population in the Philippines
from the 1950s until about the 1980s.[10] It is by far the most widely spoken of the Visayan languages,
which are in turn part of the wider Philippine languages.
The Bisayan languages or the Visayan languages[2] are a subgroup of the Austronesian
languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog and the Bikol languages,
all of which are part of the Central Philippine languages. Most Bisayan languages are spoken in the
whole Visayas section of the country, but they are also spoken in the southern part of the Bicol
Region (particularly in Masbate), islands south of Luzon, such as those that make up Romblon, most of
the areas of Mindanao and the province of Sulu located southwest of Mindanao. Some residents of Metro
Manila also speak one of the Bisayan languages.