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CTET English : Paper 1

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CTET January 2021 : English, Paper 1

 

PART - IV

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IMPORTANT : Candidates should attempt questions from Part-IV (Q. No. 91 - 120), if they have  opted for ENGLISH as LANGUAGE - I only.

106. A language teacher firstly, asks students to introduce themselves to each other in the class. Then she asks them to introduce their friend to each other. This activity will help them to increase

(1) BICS
(2) CALP
(3) PPPP
(4) ELT

 

107. Literature should be included in language classroom because

(1) it helps learners to be budding writers.
(2) it gives exposure to different grammatical forms and structures.
(3) it develops moral values among the learners.
(4) it exposes them to different genres, culture and social issues.

 

108. A teacher makes her learners respond to her actions and speech only by bodily movements. What is this known as ?

(1) Total Physical Response
(2) Task Based Language Teaching
(3) Communicative Approach
(4) Play-way method

 

 

109. In a language class students are memorizing the dialogues through drill and practice and the teacher is correcting their pronunciation, mistakes immediately. They are practising the dialogues in chorus. The teacher is following the

(1) Direct method
(2) Natural method
(3) Audiolingual method
(4) CLT method

110. The oral errors of the students can be best corrected if the teacher

(1) corrects an error directly after the student has made the error.
(2) points out the error in general and lets the student try to correct himself first.
(3) ignores the error as it may hamper their learning.
(4) asks other students to help him as peer tutoring is must in schools.

111. As a pair activity the teacher gives her learners almost the same pictures and asks them to find the difference between the two students, ask each other questions to discover how the two pictures are different. This can be a

(1) grammar activity
(2) speaking activity
(3) cloze based activity
(4) crosswords activity

 

112. A student of class IV is having some problem in writing. She may have

(1) dyslexia
(2) dysgraphia
(3) dysphasia
(4) dyscalculia

 

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113. It specifies the rules which govern the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses and sentences.

(1) Discourse
(2) Semantics
(3) Syntax
(4) Cohesion

 

114. A teacher of class VI has labelled the classroom objects such as blackboard, door, window, fan, table, chair etC. in different languages (Hindi, English, Urdu, Sanskrit etc). Here the classroom as a whole

(1) is learning through grammar translation metho.
(2) is creating a language confusion in students.
(3) is focusing on three language formula.
(4) is a rich resource for promoting multilingualism.

115. The assessment process not only assesses students’ learning but also assesses teacher’s teaching process.
This statement is

(1) fully wrong
(2) fully right
(3) partially right
(4) baseless

 

116. The language which is learnt from environment without any explicit teaching is

(1) First language
(2) Second language
(3) Third language
(4) School language

 

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117. A teacher is facing the problem of students’ poor spelling. She listed the probable causes for it and then decided to frame some steps to overcome it. This whole process is

(1) Problem solving
(2) Improving spelling
(3) Action research
(4) Applied research

 

118. Reading picture book means

(1) exposing learners to different styles of drawing.
(2) to help learners to understand and analyse the pictures.
(3) to help learners to draw neat and colourful pictures.
(4) that children love pictures and it will be a fun loving class.

 

119. Before starting a new chapter from a textbook, a teacher should at first focus on ________.

(1) the background setting of story, its history etc.
(2) the work profile of the poet/writer.
(3) relating the story with the previous experiences of learners.
(4) the grammatical structures in the chapter and difficult words.

 

120. Teacher asks learners to read aloud in the English class. This way of reading will

(1) enable learners to develop reading skill with understanding.
(2) enable learners to read with correct pronunciation using the punctuation marks.
(3) enable a learner to be a fast reader.
(4) help the teacher to complete the syllabus within the stipulated time. 

 

 

PART - V

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IMPORTANT : Candidates should attempt questions from Part - V (Q. No. 121 - 150), if they have  opted for ENGLISH as LANGUAGE - II only.

 

136. Which one of the following activities comes under CALP ?

(1) Writing book reviews
(2) Making reservations
(3) Answering calls
(4) Making an appointment for a saloon

 

137. The branch of linguistics that deals with the explanation of the relation between language and society is known as _________

(1) Societal language
(2) Psycholinguistics
(3) Sociolinguistics
(4) Anthropological linguistics

 

138. Formative assessment helps in

(1) assessing a teacher’s efficiency in teaching.
(2) providing qualitative feedback to learners to improve.
(3) creating an environment where learners can compete with each other.
(4) engaging learners in meaningful tasks and preparing them for competitive exams.

 

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139. Communicative language teaching method in English lays stress on giving opportunities to learners to participate in a purposeful talk in the classroom as it promotes

(1) the use of mother tongue freely in the classroom.
(2) learners to encounter with real life situations.
(3) their written expression in the classroom.
(4) learners to minimize spelling and grammatical errors.

140. As per Stephen Krashen, “The effective language teacher is someone who can provide input and help make it _________ in a low anxiety situation.

(1) easier
(2) grammatical
(3) comprehensible
(4) fluent

 

141. A teacher divides the class into groups of five and asks them to discuss what they would do if they were caught in one of the following situations :
Their friend falls down in the play field and is hurt…..
They are trapped in a building on fire…….
They are stuck up in a traffic jam…….
 This activity is based on ________

(1) Grammar translation method
(2) Audio lingual approach
(3) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach
(4) Structural Approach

 

142. The one that cannot be further divided into smaller grammatically meaningful components is _________

(1) a phoneme
(2) a morpheme
(3) a diphthong
(4) syntax

 

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143. Alka, a student of class III often makes a mistake between /sh/ and /s/. As a language teacher your interpretation will be

(1) Alka is a careless student.
(2) It’s due to influence of her dialect or language.
(3) Alka’s pronunciation is not clear hence you will give her more practice.
(4) As a teacher you will ignore such silly mistakes.

 

144. A language teacher asks students to make a butterfly with paper by following her instructions. This activity will help the students to develop _________.

(1) paper making skill
(2) listening comprehension
(3) paper folding skill
(4) reading comprehension

 

145. A language teacher asks students to collect flowers to make a flower scrap book. She also asks them to write the name of each flower in their language and in English. This activity will help her to promote _________.

(1) a love for nature
(2) integration of subjects
(3) multilingualism
(4) language across the curriculum

146. In which of the following the role of the learner is that of an independent learner ?

(1) Teaching Aid
(2) Building as a Learning Aid
(3) Teaching learning materials
(4) Integrated materials

 

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147. Creating a reading corner in the classroom helps ________

(1) children to learn and revise their syllabus thoroughly.
(2) to provide opportunities to children to select books independently as per their interest.
(3) the children but burdens the teacher to maintain a register and keep record of their work.
(4) to share the responsibility of the librarian as the books are issued by the teacher.

148. Small kids at their initial stage love to move pen and pencil in to and from or up and down position. This way of writing is _________

(1) drawing
(2) scribbling
(3) invented writing
(4) zig-zag writing

 

149. In a language classroom a teacher is asking students to interact in groups and then share their personal response to the poem with each other. This task promotes social interaction as advocated by _________

(1) Chomsky
(2) Piaget
(3) Skinner
(4) Lev Vygotsky

 

150. In a language classroom you have asked students to write down the directions for reaching your home from school. When students have written down the directions, they will then present their directions in pairs to each other. This activity will help to
increase

(1) their CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency).
(2) their Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS).
(3) their directional sense which a student often confuses.
(4) the integration of language with science. 

 

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