Assessment: Maritime English

Minimising Misunderstanding

Minimising Misunderstanding

How should we communicate to avoid or at least reduce misunderstandings? This is the idea behind learning Maritime English and developing and practising skills in continuously receiving and giving instructions. This first lesson will take off in daily work and also bring up some common misconceptions.

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Basic Words and Phrases

Basic Words and Phrases

This lesson will focus on learning important words we use onboard the ship. You need to understand and know how to use many of these words to be able to handle both everyday situations and potential emergencies.

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Communicating Using Maritime English

Communicating Using Maritime English

The purpose of this lesson is to give examples of how to (and how not to) communicate during the daily work onboard.

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Safety Communication

Safety Communication

In this final lesson, the focus is on ships with passengers onboard. We will provide a general picture of escape routines, general announcements, and how to communicate during an emergency.

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Assessment: Maritime English

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Question 1 of 25

What is wrong in this sentence: "Look out! You could be running into danger!"?

Question 2 of 25

Message markers help signal how a specific message should be understood. Is this statement true or false?

Question 3 of 25

You and the guest are at the green dot. How do you describe the way to the Assembly Station?

Question 4 of 25

A person with three stripes on their sleeve is probably who?

Question 5 of 25

When should MAYDAY be used?

Question 6 of 25

What is a description of the General emergency alarm?

Question 7 of 25

When should the distress signal SÈCURITÈ be used?

Question 8 of 25

”Messages are not simply transferred, they are formed (encoded) and understood (decoded)” What is the meaning of this sentence?

Question 9 of 25

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”V”?

Question 10 of 25

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”N”?

Question 11 of 25

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”H”?

Question 12 of 25

What are ”hatchrails”?

Question 13 of 25

What are ”standing orders”?

Question 14 of 25

In on-ship evacuation procedures, you may not have all information at hand right away. What is the proper way to respond to a worried guest?

Question 15 of 25

Why is this communication model considered not so helpful?

Question 16 of 25

What is the main reason lifts or elevators should be avoided in an emergency situation?

Question 17 of 25

Which example is best phrased?

Question 18 of 25

A ship’s ”draft” refers to what measurement?

Question 19 of 25

What does the term ”abandon vessel” mean?

Question 20 of 25

What is the specific meaning of the word ”located”?

Question 21 of 25

What does this symbol show?

Question 22 of 25

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”M”?

Question 23 of 25

What is true about contracted forms?

Question 24 of 25

Which alternative is true about Maritime English?

Question 25 of 25

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”G”?

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What is wrong in this sentence: "Look out! You could be running into danger!"?

It makes use of a contracted form and has not capitalized the message marker.
Your answer
It does not make use of a message marker and it uses a conditional.
Your answer
Nothing is wrong with the sentence.
Your answer

Message markers help signal how a specific message should be understood. Is this statement true or false?

False
Your answer
True
Your answer

You and the guest are at the green dot. How do you describe the way to the Assembly Station?

“Take left through this corridor. Take the stairs. Take right to the Assembly Station.”
Your answer
Follow this corridor. Take left. Take right. Take the stairs to the Assembly Station.”
Your answer
“Take right in this corridor. Take left. Take the stairs. Follow the corridor to the Assembly Station.”
Your answer

A person with three stripes on their sleeve is probably who?

A Deck Officer.
Your answer
An able body or able seaman.
Your answer
The Master.
Your answer

When should MAYDAY be used?

When issuing navigational warnings, meteorological warnings, and other important warnings.
Your answer
When a vessel is in an urgency but not in imminent danger.
Your answer
When a vessel needs immediate assistance, and there is danger to life or to the vessel itself.
Your answer
Whenever a vessel needs attention from other vessels.
Your answer

What is a description of the General emergency alarm?

Four short blasts, two prolonged blasts.
Your answer
Three short blasts, three prolonged blasts, three short blasts.
Your answer
Five prolonged blasts, one short blast.
Your answer
Seven short blasts, one prolonged blast.
Your answer

When should the distress signal SÈCURITÈ be used?

When a vessel needs immediate assistance, and there is danger to life or to the vessel itself.
Your answer
When a vessel is in an urgency but not in imminent danger.
Your answer
When issuing navigational warnings, meteorological warnings, and other important warnings.
Your answer
Whenever a vessel needs attention from other vessels.
Your answer

”Messages are not simply transferred, they are formed (encoded) and understood (decoded)” What is the meaning of this sentence?

It’s about the responsibility for understanding an order laying on the receiving end only.
Your answer
It’s about showing disturbance can happen at all steps in a chain of communication.
Your answer
It’s about encryption and the need for privacy.
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”V”?

Viskey
Your answer
Victor
Your answer
Villain
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”N”?

North
Your answer
November
Your answer
Novice
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”H”?

Hotel
Your answer
Horror
Your answer
Hungry
Your answer

What are ”hatchrails”?

A cable used by helicopters for lifting or lowering persons in a pickup operation.
Your answer
Ropes supported by stanchions around an open hatch.
Your answer
A chamber with valves, working as a connection point for tanks and pipelines.
Your answer

What are ”standing orders”?

Orders of the Master to the officer of the watch which he or she must comply with.
Your answer
The passage of a vessel through a canal, fairway, etc.
Your answer
The place or the duties of each person on board.
Your answer

In on-ship evacuation procedures, you may not have all information at hand right away. What is the proper way to respond to a worried guest?

Stop asking questions, we are doing our best!
Your answer
The crew is solving the problem as quickly and safely as possible, we will know more in a while.
Your answer
You will have to ask someone else, I do not know.
Your answer
Shut up!
Your answer

Why is this communication model considered not so helpful?

The order of the actions are mixed up.
Your answer
It is too complicated to apply to every-day communication.
Your answer
Too simplified and doesn’t take enough aspects of communication into consideration.
Your answer

What is the main reason lifts or elevators should be avoided in an emergency situation?

Elevators are not as spacious as stairs.
Your answer
Elevators can stop if power fails.
Your answer
Elevators are too slow.
Your answer
False, the use of elevators should be encouraged in emergency situations.
Your answer

Which example is best phrased?

“I’ll enter the fairway in five minutes.”
Your answer
“I might enter the fairway soon."
Your answer
“Intention. I will enter the fairway in five minutes.”
Your answer

A ship’s ”draft” refers to what measurement?

Part below water.
Your answer
Part above water.
Your answer
Distance from bridge to keel.
Your answer

What does the term ”abandon vessel” mean?

A vessel, like an ice-breaker or tug, that is available in case of need
Your answer
Concise explanatory information to crew and/or passengers.
Your answer
To evacuate all persons on board due to an emergency.
Your answer

What is the specific meaning of the word ”located”?

Position of a vessel confirmed.
Your answer
Not being in charted position.
Your answer
Found in the area.
Your answer

What does this symbol show?

MES station.
Your answer
Crew assembly station.
Your answer
Lifebuoy with light and smoke signals.
Your answer
MOB - Man overboard.
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”M”?

Muster
Your answer
Money
Your answer
Mike
Your answer

What is true about contracted forms?

You should avoid them to secure audibility.
Your answer
You should use them to avoid synonyms.
Your answer
You should use them to be efficient and say more in less time.
Your answer

Which alternative is true about Maritime English?

Maritime English is only for proficient English speakers.
Your answer
Maritime English is for both proficient and not-so-proficient English speakers.
Your answer
Maritime English is only for not so proficient English speakers.
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”G”?

Guillotine
Your answer
Grow
Your answer
Golf
Your answer
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What is wrong in this sentence: "Look out! You could be running into danger!"?

It makes use of a contracted form and has not capitalized the message marker.
Your answer
It does not make use of a message marker and it uses a conditional.
Your answer
Nothing is wrong with the sentence.
Your answer

Message markers help signal how a specific message should be understood. Is this statement true or false?

False
Your answer
True
Your answer

You and the guest are at the green dot. How do you describe the way to the Assembly Station?

“Take left through this corridor. Take the stairs. Take right to the Assembly Station.”
Your answer
Follow this corridor. Take left. Take right. Take the stairs to the Assembly Station.”
Your answer
“Take right in this corridor. Take left. Take the stairs. Follow the corridor to the Assembly Station.”
Your answer

A person with three stripes on their sleeve is probably who?

A Deck Officer.
Your answer
An able body or able seaman.
Your answer
The Master.
Your answer

When should MAYDAY be used?

When issuing navigational warnings, meteorological warnings, and other important warnings.
Your answer
When a vessel is in an urgency but not in imminent danger.
Your answer
When a vessel needs immediate assistance, and there is danger to life or to the vessel itself.
Your answer
Whenever a vessel needs attention from other vessels.
Your answer

What is a description of the General emergency alarm?

Four short blasts, two prolonged blasts.
Your answer
Three short blasts, three prolonged blasts, three short blasts.
Your answer
Five prolonged blasts, one short blast.
Your answer
Seven short blasts, one prolonged blast.
Your answer

When should the distress signal SÈCURITÈ be used?

When a vessel needs immediate assistance, and there is danger to life or to the vessel itself.
Your answer
When a vessel is in an urgency but not in imminent danger.
Your answer
When issuing navigational warnings, meteorological warnings, and other important warnings.
Your answer
Whenever a vessel needs attention from other vessels.
Your answer

”Messages are not simply transferred, they are formed (encoded) and understood (decoded)” What is the meaning of this sentence?

It’s about the responsibility for understanding an order laying on the receiving end only.
Your answer
It’s about showing disturbance can happen at all steps in a chain of communication.
Your answer
It’s about encryption and the need for privacy.
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”V”?

Viskey
Your answer
Victor
Your answer
Villain
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”N”?

North
Your answer
November
Your answer
Novice
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”H”?

Hotel
Your answer
Horror
Your answer
Hungry
Your answer

What are ”hatchrails”?

A cable used by helicopters for lifting or lowering persons in a pickup operation.
Your answer
Ropes supported by stanchions around an open hatch.
Your answer
A chamber with valves, working as a connection point for tanks and pipelines.
Your answer

What are ”standing orders”?

Orders of the Master to the officer of the watch which he or she must comply with.
Your answer
The passage of a vessel through a canal, fairway, etc.
Your answer
The place or the duties of each person on board.
Your answer

In on-ship evacuation procedures, you may not have all information at hand right away. What is the proper way to respond to a worried guest?

Stop asking questions, we are doing our best!
Your answer
The crew is solving the problem as quickly and safely as possible, we will know more in a while.
Your answer
You will have to ask someone else, I do not know.
Your answer
Shut up!
Your answer

Why is this communication model considered not so helpful?

The order of the actions are mixed up.
Your answer
It is too complicated to apply to every-day communication.
Your answer
Too simplified and doesn’t take enough aspects of communication into consideration.
Your answer

What is the main reason lifts or elevators should be avoided in an emergency situation?

Elevators are not as spacious as stairs.
Your answer
Elevators can stop if power fails.
Your answer
Elevators are too slow.
Your answer
False, the use of elevators should be encouraged in emergency situations.
Your answer

Which example is best phrased?

“I’ll enter the fairway in five minutes.”
Your answer
“I might enter the fairway soon."
Your answer
“Intention. I will enter the fairway in five minutes.”
Your answer

A ship’s ”draft” refers to what measurement?

Part below water.
Your answer
Part above water.
Your answer
Distance from bridge to keel.
Your answer

What does the term ”abandon vessel” mean?

A vessel, like an ice-breaker or tug, that is available in case of need
Your answer
Concise explanatory information to crew and/or passengers.
Your answer
To evacuate all persons on board due to an emergency.
Your answer

What is the specific meaning of the word ”located”?

Position of a vessel confirmed.
Your answer
Not being in charted position.
Your answer
Found in the area.
Your answer

What does this symbol show?

MES station.
Your answer
Crew assembly station.
Your answer
Lifebuoy with light and smoke signals.
Your answer
MOB - Man overboard.
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”M”?

Muster
Your answer
Money
Your answer
Mike
Your answer

What is true about contracted forms?

You should avoid them to secure audibility.
Your answer
You should use them to avoid synonyms.
Your answer
You should use them to be efficient and say more in less time.
Your answer

Which alternative is true about Maritime English?

Maritime English is only for proficient English speakers.
Your answer
Maritime English is for both proficient and not-so-proficient English speakers.
Your answer
Maritime English is only for not so proficient English speakers.
Your answer

What word is the phonetic equivalent of ”G”?

Guillotine
Your answer
Grow
Your answer
Golf
Your answer
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