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1. The Independence was achieved in India
through violent means
by making use of every resource available
through a long struggle
by self-reliant leadership
2. Our leaders vision of independence India was based on
economic self-reliance
diversification of employment
boycott of foreign goods
development of defence forces
3. In addition to economic growth our society as a consequence also needs
attention to pay changes. climatic
just and equitable distribution of wealth.
development of the countryside.
to give importance to variety. Cultural
4. Study the following statements : Along with economic growth we also want to develop a united nation with one aim. A noble and liberal society depends entirely on economic wealth.
Both A and B are right
Both A and B are wrong.
A is right and B is wrong.
A is wrong and B is right.
5. What does free-writing approach to writing promote?
Understanding of the content and fluency
Syntax and language use
Understanding of form and accuracy
Grammatical accuracy
6. Pedagogical Grammar means that
Begin from form and move on to use.
Teaching through immersion
All grammar teaching should be rule focussed.
Teaching grammar in context
7. Which one of the following is not advocated as an element for assessment in a poem ?
Grammar
Vocabulary
Poetic devices
Theme of the poem
8. A teacher asked her learners to watch a movie two days ago and now she asks them to have a discussion on what would they do if they were the hero/heroine of the movie? What is this assessment task known as?
Speaking task
Thinking task
Extrapolative task
Critical pedagogy
9. What does fluency in a reading mean?
Ability to interpret the text.
grammatical errors.
Ability to read a text at ease with expression.
Ability to read a text without any mistake at all
10. Which of the following statements are true of languages in India? a. English is the official language of India. b. Hindi is the national language of India. c. Hindi is the official language of India. d. English is the associate official language of India.
a and d are true.
b and c are true.
a and b are true.
c and d are true.
11. Declarative Knowledge in learning grammar refers to
knowing the ideas and concepts in learning.
knowing to use a dictionary
knowing the rules of a grammatical item.
knowing how to do a grammatical item.
12. Habit formation through repetition is a component of which method ?
Task based language teaching
Constructivism
Communicative approach
Audio lingualism
13. A teacher of class VII asks her learners to bring at least two or three objects from home and she asks them to exchange the objects among themselves. She now asks them to describe the objects in their hands in at least ten sentences. What are the objects known as in language teaching-learning materials?
Teachers materials
Inputs for language learning
Realia
Home objects
14. Which one of the following components is a process in the Top-Down approach to teaching-learning of listening?
Recognising prominent details
Recognising the topic
Discriminating between intonation compounds
Discriminating between phonemes
15. A teacher arranges her learners into pairs and gives them a text of two paragraphs. One learner in the pair reads out the text to the other and the partner takes the dictation. Then the process is reversed. What is this known as?
Running dictation
Composition dictation
Jig-saw dictation
Partial dictation
16. Mechanics of language in speaki skills includes
social and cultural rules of using language
script words and sentences
pronunciation grammar and vocabulary
clarity of message
17. Jatin Ragav is reading fast looking for specific information in a machinery manual. What is this reading sub skill known as ?
Bottom up reading
Critical reading
Skimming
Scanning
18. Here are some sets of words in some pattern. Find what are these known as in teaching-learning of pronunciation ? bit-bet did-dead hid-head lid-lead miss-mess pin-pen lock-luck
Vowels
Stress and intonation
Contrastive pairs
Comparable paire
19. Words which one recognizes when one hears or sees them are �
Explicit vocabulary
Implicit vocabulary
Productive vocabulary
Receptive vocabulary
20. Which part of speech is the underlined word in the following expression? It cannot stay in one place.
Particle
Adverb
Determiner
Pronoun
21. as if in ceaseless activity The word ceaseless means
temporary
flawless
permanent
continuous
22. creates a tornado of restlessness The word tornado here means
storm
mixture
waterfall
confusion
23. Thoughts are compared to
associations
clouds
comments
judgements
24. The process of thinking continues from
morning to night
year to year
day to day
week to week
25. Thoughts affect us when our
learning is affected.
pride is hurt.
job is affected.
sleep is disturbed.
26. Read the following statements : A. Our reading decides the filter in our minds. B. The filter in our mind controls our likes but not dislikes.
A is correct and B is incorrect.
A is incorrect and B is correct.
Both A and B are correct.
Both A and B are incorrect.
27. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
The filter in our minds influences our actions.
Our thoughts do not remain stuck at one point.
Each one of us has an inbom filter in our mind
We like to be respected when we go somewhere
28. Which part of speech is the underline word in the following expression ? But we get affected
Adverb
Particle
Verb
Adjective
29. What does Deaths second self stand for?
ashes of ones youth
Setting sun
sleep that gives rest
a dying fire
30. that on the ashes of his youth doth which figure of speech has been used in the underlined phrase ?
Personification
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
31. The theme of the poem is
love
songs of the birds
the idea of death
the change of seasons
32. The poets life today is like season.
winter
summar
spring
autumn
33. In this season the branches have leaves.
either (i) or (ii)
neither (i) nor (ii)
only (i)
Only (ii)
34. What did the branches of the trees enjoy earlier ?
bright light of the sun
darkness after the sunset
a ruined group of singers
sweet songs of birds
35. A teacher asks her learners to join sentences to make a short paragraph inserting supplied connectors and coherence markers like (but and however because although etc.) What is this approach to writing known as?
Free-writing approach
Communicative approach
Control composition
Controlled-to-free writing approach
36. An assessment done at the end of six months of one term is
Semester assessment
Remedial assessment
Summative assessment
Formative assessment
37. A teacher asks her learners of class VIII to read a novel by an Indian author and asks them to write an essay giving their views on the novel. What is this known as a reading activity?
Reading for information
Scanning
Intensive reading
Extensive reading
38. A teacher selected a text from a newspaper and dropped every fifth word and asked her learners to supply the missing words. What is a test known as?
Complete the comprehensible paragraph
Writing test
A cloze test
Fill in the blanks
39. Multilingualism as a strategy is
teaching of all subjects in English medium and teaching Indian languages as a language.
teaching of a foreign language along with Indian languages through the medium of the state language.
using the languages of leamers for teaching-learning of languages and content subjects.
teaching-learning of at least three languages and content in mother tongue.
40. Denotative meaning of a word
figurative meaning
grammatical meaning
factual meaning or basic meaning
much more than word actually means
41. We acquire � language understanding input that is a little beyond our current level of acquire competence. What is this pedagogical concept known as ?
Input hypothesis
Thinking hypothesis
Output hypothesis
Interaction hypothesis
42. What is the status given to English the Indian Constitution?
National Language
Link Language
Official Language
Associate Official Language
43. What are the three components PPP model of teaching?
Pre-teaching � Practice teaching Produce result
Pre-conception � Practice by teacher � Post conceptian
Present � Practice � Produce
Product � Practice � Present
44. A teacher of class VIII discussed Determiners in her classroom rough a short text in which determiners occur many times and Learners were made to notice them in use. This was followed by learners using the same in their own language for particular purposes. The teacher then brought to the notice of the learners the uses of determiners in contexts. What strategy did the teacher employ in her classroom?
Task based language teaching
Communicable language teaching
Structured teaching
Consciousness-raising
45. A teacher found some of the aspects of language learning e.g. reading with understanding a text on scientific concepts. She decided to pick students who find it difficult on the particular aspects. She took separate sessions for them to support them read and understand such text. What is she trying to do here?
Thinking skills
Feedback teaching
Remedial teaching
Higher Order skills
46. A teacher wanted her students to learn vocabulary effectively. Which of the following ways should she adopt to teach vocabulary in her classroom?
Ask them to find the meanings of the words in the dictionary.
Ask them to group the words into meaningful categories and use them in real-life purposes
Write all the new words on the blackboard and write their meanings in the language of teaching
Ask her learners to underline the difficult words in a lesson and find their meanings in their language
47. A reader gets the hints based on sound-symbol correspondences to decode and comprehend the text. What is this known as?
Metalinguistic cues
Syntactic cues
Graphic cues
Graphophonic cues
48. Indias language-in-education policy is known as
Language in education
Official language policy
National language formula
Three language formula
49. What is the following activity known as in vocabulary learning? Find words that can befriend the word rain. e.g. heavy rain.
Word groups
Word web
Collocation
Phrase
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