What are the alternatives of conventional assessment system and how can they be effectively used in Indian classrooms?
See Answer →Explain the role of language tests and assessment; and describe the five cardinal principles of assessment used to maintain the quality in it.
See Answer →What is the significance of ICT tools being used in modern classrooms? How can they be better used in Indian context?
See Answer →Discuss the approaches, the teachers of English language can imply to develop the writing ability of their learners.
See Answer →Discuss the approaches, the teachers of English language can imply to develop the writing ability of their learners.
See Answer →Discuss the practitioner research and its significance in teaching. Also mention the ways to conduct it.
See Answer →Write short note on the following. (any four)
(i) Humanistic approach to language teaching
(ii) Practitioner research
(iii) Integration of language skills
(iv) Fluency as language skills
(v) Intensive and Extensive reading
See Answer →Write all the Phonetic symbols of the English vowels and consonants, with their suitable examples.
See Answer →The following sentences represent formal writing. Re-write them as they would be spoken, using contracted forms.
(a) They said they will be here by ten.
(b) She has told us she is going to resign.
(c) This is the house they have decided to buy.
(d) I am sure he will be careful in future.
(e) We have started working on the project.
(f) It is not the best way to do it.
(g) They have promised me they will be on time.
(h) You sign here and I will do the rest.
(i) We are going home early today.
(j) They would have come to your rescue if they had been here.
See Answer →Transcribe the following words.
(a) Essential
(b)Territory
(c) Solution
(d) Furnishes
(e) Pressure
(f) Pollute
(g)Nuisance
(h)Burden
(i) Atomic
(j) Naughty
See Answer →Combine the sentences into a single sentence containing a relative clause.
(a) Have you found the keys? You lost the keys yesterday.
(b)We met Ayushi. We met her yesterday. She is my daughter’s roommate
(c) I slept in a bed last night. The bed was not comfortable.
See Answer →Complete the sentences with an appropriate relative clause-
(a) I don’t like stories that ……
(b)An architect is someone who…..
(c) Earth is the only planet which …..
(d)The house which …..
See Answer →Identify the relative clause(s) in the following sentences:
(a) Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) advised anyone who intended to build a farm house to avoid swampy land.
(b)Malaria, which means bad air in Italian, was assumed to be caused by minute animals that entered the body by way of mouth and nose.
(c)In 1980, the French physician, Laveran, who was working as a surgeon with the French army in Algeria, noticed a microscopic organism in the red-blood corpuscles of malaria patients.
See Answer →Identify the tense and the aspect of the verb phrases in the following sentences:
a) She was driving her car along a hilly road.
b) Some guests have arrived early in taxis.
c) You could have asked for our advice.
d) These questions have been asked so many times by the media.
e) The striking workers were shifted to a different venue.
f) Who can explain the meaning of this strange word?
g) None of the students was given a chance to speak.
h) We are looking forward to our vacations so eagerly!
i) The car has run out of fuel.
j) The final plan is still lying on his table for approval.
See Answer →Look at the following sentences and identify which basic sentence pattern they belong to – SVOA, SVOC or SVOO:
a) The whole nation called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ‘Mahatma’.
b) He kept his parents in the dark about his new friends.
c) Newspapers called the new law a shame for democracy.
d) Her parents may give her a simple gift this birthday.
e) This new idea will make our boss quite happy.
See Answer →Look at the sentences below and identify which basic sentence pattern they belong to – SV, SVA, SVC or SVO:
a) Some people don’t like the food sold on streets.
b) The officer appeared tired after the meeting.
c) The posters were everywhere, all over the town.
d) The mother was feeling quite sad for the baby.
e) No passengers were inside the train at that time.
See Answer →What is meant by context which the language occurs in?
See Answer →Discuss various roles/factors take place in organising ‘text’.
See Answer →Discuss the role and status of English language teaching in present India.
See Answer →Explain code mixing and its constraints. Also differentiate it from code switching with examples.
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