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Question 1: The process of word formation consists of
(a) compounding and affixes
(b) opposites and meaning
(c) verbs and nouns
(d) using synonyms or euphemisms
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Answer: (a) compounding and affixes

Explanation:
1. New words are formed by joining words (compounding).
2. They are also formed by adding prefixes and suffixes (affixation).

Teacher's Note:
1. Other processes are blending, clipping and conversion.
2. Synonyms are not a word-formation process.

Question 2: The politician had been making promises long before election time.
The statement is in the ______ tense.
(a) past continuous
(b) present perfect
(c) present perfect continuous
(d) past perfect continuous
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Answer: (d) past perfect continuous

Explanation:
1. 'had been making' is had + been + verb-ing.
2. This is the past perfect continuous.

Teacher's Note:
1. Past perfect continuous shows an action continuing before another past point.
2. Have/has been is present perfect continuous.

Question 3: A teacher asks her learners to find words and word chunks relating to different themes on the reading lesson. Learners in groups have to make word charts of the same category. What is this strategy known as?
(a) A writing project
(b) Thematic language teaching
(c) Word collocations
(d) Communicative language teaching
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Answer: (c) Word collocations

Explanation:
1. Learners collect words and chunks that go together.
2. Grouping words that occur together is collocation work, as per the source key.

Teacher's Note:
1. Collocations are words that commonly go together.
2. This is a vocabulary-building activity.

Question 4: Extensive Reading is
(a) reading for pleasure and overall understanding of the text
(b) reading in detail every word and idea for deep understanding
(c) reading for facts
(d) reading to write
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Answer: (a) reading for pleasure and overall understanding of the text

Explanation:
1. Extensive reading means reading longer texts for enjoyment.
2. The aim is overall understanding, not detail.

Teacher's Note:
1. Option b describes intensive reading.
2. Graded readers support extensive reading.

Question 5: Which of the following is suitable for making students responsible for their own learning?
(a) Discouraging students from making decisions about how they learn best
(b) Using technology to chat and network
(c) Encouraging students to ask more and more questions
(d) Giving a lot of homework, project work and assignments to improve language skills of students
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Answer: (c) Encouraging students to ask more and more questions

Explanation:
1. Learner autonomy grows when students question and inquire.
2. Encouraging questions makes them take charge of learning.

Teacher's Note:
1. Discouraging decisions removes responsibility.
2. More homework does not give autonomy.

Question 6: Essays or long writing tasks especially on a discursive issue should
(a) help students develop their literary skills
(b) help students with grammar
(c) help them to improve their handwriting
(d) help them discuss the different points of view and justify them with illustrative points
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Answer: (d) help them discuss the different points of view and justify them with illustrative points

Explanation:
1. A discursive issue has more than one side.
2. So the writing should present points of view with supporting examples.

Teacher's Note:
1. Discursive writing is argumentative and balanced.
2. Focus on ideas and justification.

Question 7: According to the observation in the NCF 2005 [3.1.3], English is a ____ language in India.
(a) Foreign
(b) First
(c) Global
(d) Second
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Answer: (d) Second

Explanation:
1. NCF 2005 says English is in India a second language, not a foreign one.
2. It has a place in the curriculum as a second language.

Teacher's Note:
1. Do not call English a foreign language in the Indian context.
2. It is also seen as a global link.

Question 8: The 'question': How will I achieve my teaching goal ?, in the design of a language instruction, which helps the teacher to 'keep the lesson on target' is/are the
(a) Objectives
(b) Methodology
(c) Evaluation
(d) Documentation
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Answer: (a) Objectives

Explanation:
1. Objectives state what the lesson aims to achieve.
2. They keep the lesson on target while the teacher plans how to reach the goal.

Teacher's Note:
1. Objectives guide the choice of activities and assessment.
2. Write them in terms of what learners will be able to do.

Question 9: Students can master complex language structures without being aware of the fact they are doing so, through
(a) regular, simple grammar practice sessions
(b) teachers avoiding the teaching of structures altogether
(c) use of grammar games with a focus on relevant structures
(d) more speaking and listening practice with regular feedback
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Answer: (c) use of grammar games with a focus on relevant structures

Explanation:
1. In games learners focus on fun and the task.
2. They practise the target structures without noticing, so grammar games are the best fit.

Teacher's Note:
1. Games give implicit, meaningful practice of grammar.
2. Plain practice sessions make learners aware of the rules.

Question 10: An assessment done at the end of six months of one term is ______
(a) Semester assessment
(b) Remedial assessment
(c) Summative assessment
(d) Formative assessment
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Answer: (c) Summative assessment

Explanation:
1. It is held at the end of a term.
2. Assessment at the end of a learning period is summative.

Teacher's Note:
1. Formative assessment is during learning.
2. Summative judges what has been learned.

Question 11: A teacher found some of the aspects of language learning e.g. reading with understanding a text on scientific concepts difficult for some students. 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?
(a) Thinking skills
(b) Feedback teaching
(c) Remedial teaching
(d) Higher Order skills
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Answer: (c) Remedial teaching

Explanation:
1. She identifies learners with a specific difficulty.
2. Extra sessions to help them overcome it are remedial teaching.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remedial teaching follows diagnosis of a learning gap.
2. It is targeted and not for the whole class.

Question 12: Teachers may respond to young writers according to their individual needs. How?
(a) Give them detailed feedback on grammatical errors only
(b) Praise what they do well, making specific comments about the work
(c) Encourage them by overlooking certain errors
(d) Reward students who write well before the whole class
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Answer: (b) Praise what they do well, making specific comments about the work

Explanation:
1. Young writers need encouragement and guidance.
2. Specific praise tells them what works and builds confidence.

Teacher's Note:
1. Feedback should be specific and positive first.
2. Focusing on errors alone can discourage young writers.

Question 13: TBLT in second language teaching is :
(a) Task-Based Language Training
(b) Task Book Language Teaching
(c) Tool-Based Language Teaching
(d) Task-Based Language Teaching
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Answer: (d) Task-Based Language Teaching

Explanation:
1. TBLT is an abbreviation.
2. It stands for Task-Based Language Teaching.

Teacher's Note:
1. Learners use language to complete meaningful tasks.
2. It is part of the communicative approach.

Question 14: Abeera, an English teacher, describes a scene and asks the learners to draw what they have heard. This is a :
(a) picture composition
(b) picture story
(c) mutual dictation
(d) picture dictation
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Answer: (d) picture dictation

Explanation:
1. The teacher speaks and learners draw what they hear.
2. This is picture dictation.

Teacher's Note:
1. It tests listening comprehension.
2. In picture composition learners write about a picture.

Question 15: While learning vocabulary, learners connect one word with its related words and the words which can occur before and after it. What is this technique called ?
(a) Conversation
(b) Dictation
(c) Note making
(d) Collocation
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Answer: (d) Collocation

Explanation:
1. Words that occur together form collocations.
2. Connecting a word to words before and after it is collocation.

Teacher's Note:
1. Examples: make a decision, heavy rain.
2. Learning chunks improves fluency.

Question 16: Which one of the following skills is assessed if 'cloze' is used as a tool ?
(a) Writing for language listening skills
(b) Speaking
(c) Listening
(d) Reading for language learning
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Answer: (d) Reading for language learning

Explanation:
1. A cloze test has blanks to fill in a passage.
2. It tests reading comprehension and language knowledge.

Teacher's Note:
1. Cloze requires using context to restore missing words.
2. It is a reading and language test.

Question 17: If you are listening to the description of how to reach a specific location, then you are doing ______
(a) focused listening
(b) intensive listening
(c) extensive listening
(d) casual listening
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Answer: (b) intensive listening

Explanation:
1. You must listen to details carefully to follow directions.
2. Listening for detail is intensive listening.

Teacher's Note:
1. Extensive listening is for pleasure, like stories.
2. Intensive listening is for specific information.

Question 18: Which one of the following does not come under the principle of selection and gradation?
(a) Availability
(b) Coverage
(c) Frequency
(d) Accuracy
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Answer: (d) Accuracy

Explanation:
1. Selection principles include frequency, coverage and availability.
2. Accuracy is not one of them.

Teacher's Note:
1. Gradation means arranging from easy to difficult.
2. Learnability and teachability are also criteria.

Question 19: A teacher divides her class into groups of four and reads out a text of about six sentences. Learners listen to and jot down important words and phrases. The teacher reads out the text the second time. Then learners discuss in groups the jotted down words and recreate the text nearer to the one read out by the teacher. What is this task known as?
(a) Composition Dictation
(b) Mutual Dictation
(c) Punctuation Dictation
(d) Real Dictation
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Answer: (a) Composition Dictation

Explanation:
1. Learners take notes and then rebuild the text themselves.
2. This is composition dictation (dictogloss).

Teacher's Note:
1. Learners reconstruct meaning, not copy word by word.
2. It combines listening, speaking and writing.

Question 20: Poetry teaching is ______
(a) to learn words and phrases
(b) to learn poetic devices
(c) for enjoyment and appreciation
(d) to write a critical commentary
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Answer: (c) for enjoyment and appreciation

Explanation:
1. Poetry is taught to let learners enjoy it.
2. Appreciation is the main aim.

Teacher's Note:
1. Avoid reducing poems to word meanings.
2. Devices are a means, not the aim.

Question 21: Drilling is a teaching-learning technique or a strategy in ______.
(a) Constructivist language teaching
(b) Structuralism
(c) Communicative language teaching
(d) Lexical approach
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Answer: (b) Structuralism

Explanation:
1. Drills are repeated practice of patterns.
2. This is typical of the structural approach.

Teacher's Note:
1. Structural and audio-lingual methods rely on drills.
2. CLT stresses communication.

Question 22: Error correction in students' written work is most effective when the teacher
(a) writes out the correct answers on the board
(b) revises the wrong answers with them
(c) points out major errors using symbols and students self-correct
(d) gives students more drill work till they 'learn' the correct responses
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Answer: (c) points out major errors using symbols and students self-correct

Explanation:
1. Symbols show the type of error without giving the answer.
2. Self-correction makes learners think and remember.

Teacher's Note:
1. Self-correction encourages learner autonomy.
2. Do not mark every error.

Question 23: While learning a language, the instruction provides opportunities for independent study, a wide range of reference material and immediate feedback about achievement. This is ______ instruction.
(a) programmed
(b) computer-aided
(c) direct
(d) distance
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Answer: (b) computer-aided

Explanation:
1. Independent study, many resources and immediate feedback are features of computers.
2. So this is computer-aided instruction.

Teacher's Note:
1. Computers can give instant feedback.
2. Programmed learning is step by step and fixed.

Question 24: Every class is a mixed ability class, so while dividing the students into different groups for a language activity a teacher should
(a) mix weaker and stronger students.
(b) give students different tasks according to their strength.
(c) arrange groups differently for different kinds of activities.
(d) put weaker and stronger students in different groups.
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Answer: (c) arrange groups differently for different kinds of activities.

Explanation:
1. Different activities need different groupings.
2. Flexible grouping lets all learners benefit.

Teacher's Note:
1. Vary groups: ability, interest, random.
2. Fixed groups may label learners.

Question 25: A purposeful collection of students' work that demonstrates their efforts, progress and achievement in a given area is called a/an
(a) Portfolio
(b) Anecdotal record
(c) Checklist
(d) Rating scale
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Answer: (a) Portfolio

Explanation:
1. It is a collection of work over time.
2. This is a portfolio.

Teacher's Note:
1. Portfolios show growth.
2. They are used in CCE.

Question 26: Lata, an English language teacher of Class VII, divides the class into pairs to read a sequence of pictures and then describe it to each other. What is this activity pedagogically known as?
(a) Group work
(b) Assignment
(c) Teacher-facilitated reading
(d) Peer interaction
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Answer: (d) Peer interaction

Explanation:
1. Learners work in pairs, speaking to each other.
2. This is peer interaction.

Teacher's Note:
1. Pair work gives all learners speaking time.
2. Group work is for more than two.

Question 27: Learning to read means
(a) decoding letters of alphabet into sounds.
(b) reading aloud.
(c) decoding the structure of a language.
(d) decoding the meaning.
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Answer: (a) decoding letters of alphabet into sounds.

Explanation:
1. Beginning reading is decoding written symbols into sounds.
2. The source key follows this view.

Teacher's Note:
1. Decoding is the first step; comprehension follows.
2. Doubtful: option d is also arguable, so the source key is kept.

Question 28: Language skills should be taught
(a) through imitation
(b) in isolation
(c) through clear explanations
(d) in an integrated manner
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Answer: (d) in an integrated manner

Explanation:
1. Skills are used together in real life.
2. So they should be taught in an integrated manner.

Teacher's Note:
1. Integration follows the whole language view.
2. Listening, speaking, reading and writing support one another.

Question 29: Which of the following is not a study skill?
(a) Writing formal reports
(b) Note taking
(c) Using a dictionary
(d) Getting information from an encyclopedia
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Answer: (a) Writing formal reports

Explanation:
1. Note taking, dictionary use and reference work are study skills.
2. Writing formal reports is a writing task.

Teacher's Note:
1. Study skills help find and organise information.
2. Odd-one-out.

Question 30: While learning about the passive voice form, students learn about
(a) use of 'by'
(b) position of verbs
(c) position of nouns
(d) use of verb form
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Answer: (d) use of verb form

Explanation:
1. Passive uses be + past participle.
2. So verb form is the main learning.

Teacher's Note:
1. 'By' is optional in passive.
2. Verb form is the core.

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