XHO1507/201/1/2023

Tutorial Letter 201/1/2023

Name of module: Applied African Language

Communicative Competence for Second
Additional Language

Module code(s): XHO1507

Semester 1

Assessment 1

Name of Department: African Languages

This tutorial letter contains important information about your module.

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Assessment 1

Dear students

This assignment is comprised by forty multiple-choice questions (MCQ’s). All

students are expected to submit two assignment/assessment to be able to gain
admission to exams for Semester 1. This assignment is based on the content that is
available on XHO1507 study guide, and is based on ALL UNITS. What you need to
do to pass all your assessments and exam is to read all these units and these units
and you will definately pass this module.

Objective:

The main objectives of this assignment are to test the following:

your ability to greet in isiXhosa and get acquainted, communicate in formal

and informal everyday situations, including asking and answering questions,
generating positive and negative statements in terms of specific actions, and
forming elementary phrases and sentences; your comprehension of written
and oral forms of the language based on pictures and dialogues.

Instructions:

 For submission of answers to multiple choice assessments please log on

myUnisa and the assessments are available on the XHO1507 module site
and are numbers as assessment 1 and assessment 2.
 Please note the assessment can ONLY be done online for this module. There
are NO mark reading sheet. or on a mark reading sheet.
 For listening to audios, go to Additional Resources folder or Announcement on
the XHO1507 module page on myUnisa.

Assignment 1 MCQ CORRECT ANSWERS:

NB : The assessment questions number 1- 40 are set in such a way that these
questions will reshuffle. For an example: question one of one student will be
question five in another students, but the answers will remain the same.
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The following questions relate to a dialogue that is available on the assessment

questions and in your study guide about openning a bank account.
Choose the correct question in questions 31 – 40 to complete the dialogue:

1. Andikwazi...kakuhle
 Ukubhala
2. ...yesazisi na?
 Unencwadi
3. ...ekugqibeleni.
 Ndisayine
4. Ndingayifaka...imali e-akhawuntini?
 Nini
5. Masihlale...
 Phantsi
6. Awu...konke ngoku
 Sesigcwalisile
7. ...ngoku
 Ndiza kubuya ngoku
8. Ndifuna...i-akhawunti yetsheki
 Ukuvula.
9. Siza kukufownela...
 Ngolwesibini
10. ...ngantoni?
 Ndingakunceda.

Read the following paragraph and select the appropriate answers to question 11 –
20 (iiholide elwande):

11. Leliphi ixesha lonyaka elibandayo?

 Ebusika
12. Siza kuya nini eShaka Marine World?
 Xa kuqala ukuna
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13. Ngubani othanda ukuloba iintlanzi?

 NguZaza
14. Replace the noun abantwana with the correct object concord in the following
sentence. Abantwana a...lwi eShaka Marine World.
 Abalwi
15. Utata nomama baza kuhamba ngantoni?
 Ngemoto
16. Yintoni ebangela ukuba utata angathandi ukuya eKapa ngoDisemba?
 Akathandi ukuya eKapa ngoDisemba ngoba kuyagcwala.
17. What is the meaning of Siza kuchitha iholide eThekwini.
 We will spend our holiday in Durban.
18. Abantwana banikwa imali yokuthenga ntoni?
 Itshokolethi neaysikhrim
19. Answer the following negative NgoDisemba...eTHekwini
 NgoDisemba akutshisi eThekwini.
20. Replace the npun ikofu with its correct subject concord in the following
sentence: Futhi_ikofu erestyu.
 Siza kuphunga.

Look at the pictures and select the approapriate answers to questions 27 – 30

(imozulu/weather).
21. Look at the picture (d) then answer the question:
 Lishushu
22. Look at the picture (c) and then answer the question izulu linjani?
 Lisibekele
23. Look at the picture (a) and then answer the question izulu linjani?
 Liyana
24. Look at the picture (b) and then answer the quation izulu linjani?
 Linomoya
25. You would use the phrase Hayi ndisaphila noko to express that you are fine in
response to what question?
 Kunjani
26. Answer the following question by using the word in brackets, Ngubani lo? (my
sister).
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 Ngudade wethu
27. The most translation of ndinxaniwe is:
 I am thirsty
28. Select the form of the verb in the past tense:
 Abafundi bafunde isiXhosa
29. When greeting more than one person you would say:
 Molweni
30. Give the following sentence in negative: umakazi unelaysensi (aunt has a
licence).
 Umakazi akanalaysensi
31. Complete the sentence uJoyce...i-akhawunti ngomso
 Uzovula
32. You would use the expression mholo tatomkhulu to respond to:
 Mholo mzukulwana.
33. Select the correct form of verb in the present tense, positive:
 Abafundi bafunda isiXhosa.
34. Select the correct form of verb in the furture tense, positive:
 Abafundi baza kufunda isiXhosa.
35. Complete the following sentence by inserting the correct subject concord, also
choose the correct form of the word in brackets. Indoda_hamba (nga – teksi)
 Indoda ihambe ngeteksi.
36. Complete the following sentence by inserting the correct subject concord,
also choose the correct form of the word in brackets. Abafundi_funda (isikolo)
ngomso.
 Abafundi baza kufunda esikolweni ngomso.
37. Select the most appropriate translation of Abantwana bonwabile edolophini
 The children are happy in town.
38. You will use the expression Ingaba ikhona enye into? When you...
 Ask whether there is somethinh else.
39. Answer the following question by usings the word i brackets: Ihamba nini
ibhasi? (At five in the morning).
 Ihamba ekuseni ngentsimbi yesihlanu.
40. You will the expression Ngubani ixesha when you...
 Ask what is the time.
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TOTAL
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