Language skills are also known as…

1. One of the features of language mentioned below is wrong. Identify it.  
 1) Language is systematic  
 2) Language is arbitrary
 3) Language is not extendable
 4) Language transmits culture 

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  Answer:3

2. Which article of the Indian constitution declared 'Hindi' as official language and recommended the use of 'English' for the official purposes for a period of 15 years. 
1) Article  344  
2) Article  351  
3) Article  343  
4) Article  345 

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  Answer:3

3. A 'table' is called a table not because there is any logical relationship between the word 'table' and the physical reality which we denote by it. Which feature of language is this
  1) Displacement
  2) Arbitrariness
  3) Cultural transmission
  4) Creativity

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  Answer:2

4. When did Macaulay receive the official resolution from Bentick? 
 1) 2nd Feb 1835 
 2) 7th Feb 1835
 3) 2nd March 1835
 4) 7th March 1835

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  Answer:4

5. Acquisition is not usually associated with.
 1) first language
 2) mother tongue
 3) language at home
 4) third language

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  Answer:4

6. Who remarked English as a 'window on the world':
 1) G.B. Shaw
 2) M.K. Gandhi
 3) Jawaharlal Nehru
 4) Rabindranadh Tagore

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  Answer:3

7. Choose the wrong statement regarding the English language. 
 1) It is the major language of media and broad cost
 2) Education from pre-primary to the highest level is available in English
 3) It is a library language
 4) It is the first language in India.

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  Answer:4

8. "Language Acquisition Device is an inborn trait." This is believed by: 
 1) Cognitivists
 2) Psycho-linguists
 3) Behaviourists
 4) Realists

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  Answer:2

9. Things / objects have different names in different languages. This feature of language is:
 1) Systematicity
 2) Arbitrariness
 3) Extendibility
 4) Creativity

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  Answer:2

10. Important words found in different definitions of 'language' are____
 1) specific-vocabulary-words
 2) system-method-communication
 3) creative-system-sentences
 4) arbitrary-vocal-system

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  Answer:4

11. What is figurative language often associated with?
 1) prose 
 2) composition
 3) grammar 
 4) Poetry

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  Answer:4

12. To develop 'reading skills' among pupils, their course includes____
 1) Composition exercise.
 2) Supplementary Readers and workbooks
 3) Listening passages for reading by the teacher.
 4) Poems

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  Answer:2

13. What are the two basic elements of Spoken language?
 1) Stress and Syllable
 2) Clarity and fluency
 3) Legibility and simplicity
 4) Accuracy and Uniformity

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  Answer:2

14. In poetry teaching, _____vocabulary is developed.
 1) Active 
 2) Passive
 3) 1&2 
 4) None

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  Answer:3

15.In Supplementary reader teaching, _____vocabulary is developed.
 1) Active only 
 2) Passive only
 3) 1&2 
 4) None

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  Answer:2

16. What is the main objective in teaching composition?
 1) To develop listening skills
 2) To develop speaking skills
 3) To develop reading skills
 4) To develop writing skills

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  Answer:4

17. Where do we find aesthetic sense in the following?
 1) In teaching poetry
 2) In teaching prose
 3)In teaching supplementary reader
 4)In teaching composition

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  Answer:1

18.Pupil's Emotional and Intellectual development can be developed by _____
 1) Poetry 
 2) Prose
 3) Supplementary Reader
 4) Composition

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  Answer:3

19. Language skills are also known as_____
 1) Macro Skills 
 2) Micro Skills
 3) Minimum Skills
 4) Maximum Skills

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  Answer:1

20."Listening without any specific purpose" is defined by_____
 1) Doff (1988)
 2) Mary Underwood(1989)
 3) Michael West (1935)
 4) C.J. Dodson(1940)

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  Answer:1

21.Which one of the following affect the language learning process the least.
 1) self-esteem 
 2) Intelligence
 3) Motivation 
 4)Auto-Correction

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  Answer:3

22.While telling a story the teacher must not use
 1) Voice modulation
 2) Gestures
 3) Mumbling voice
 4) Teaching aids

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  Answer:3

23. A test of listening comprehension is a test of _____
 1) Hearing skills 
 2) Productive skill
 3) Receptive skills 
 4) Phonology

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  Answer:3

24. ESL refers to_____
 1) English as a Secondary Language
 2) English as a situational Language
 3) English as a Structural Language
 4) English as a Second Language

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  Answer:4

25. Learning is an individual's life is not _________
 1) Multi resourced
 2)Continuous 
3) Only at school 
 4) From womb to tomb

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  Answer:3

26. In a conversation, a listener should
 1) not use non-verbal cues
 2) allow the speaker to speak in large chunks
 3) take turns 
4) Be passive

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  Answer:3

27. At Primary level, learners can use this kind of Dictionary
 1) an advanced Dictionary
 2) A Thesaurus
 3) a picture Dictionary
 4) An encyclopedia

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  Answer:3

28. To teach speaking through a dialogue, the best technique is.___
 1) Reading aloud
 2) Miming 
 3) a Role play
 4) a Group work

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  Answer:3

29.Looking for specific information, we adopt the technique of ________
 1) Scanning 
 2) Skipping
 3) Skimming 
 4) Loud reading

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  Answer:1

30. The technique 'skimming' in silent reading means
 1) reading the passage word by word
 2) locating the keywords of the passage
 3) reading the whole passage slowly to get the details of the passage
 4) reading the whole passage rapidly to get the gist of the passage.

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  Answer:2

31. Change of stress from the first syllable to the second as in, 'Conduct-Con'duct, changes the word_____
 1) from the Adjective to Noun.
 2) from the Verb to Noun.
 3) from Noun to Verb.
 4) from Noun to Adjective.

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  Answer:3

32.Identify the correct tones is saying the two parts of the sentence.
 If you go to Agra,  you can see the Taj.
 1) Falling / Falling
 2) Rising / Falling
 3) Falling / Rising
 4) Rising / Rising

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  Answer:2

33. The number of syllables in the word' 'internationalization' is_____ 
 1) Six 
 2) Nine
 3) Seven 
 4) Eight

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  Answer:4

34. How many syllables are there in the word, 'EMPLOYEE'?
 1) Three 
 2) Four
 3) Six 
 4) Five

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  Answer:1

35. How many syllables are there in the word, 'EMPLOYEE'?
 1) Three 
 2) Four
 3) Six 
 4) Five

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  Answer:4

36. Identity the final sound in the word ' BRIDGES'
1) /Z/ 
2) /IS/ 
3) /S/ 
4) /IZ/

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  Answer:4

37. Identify the minimal pair.   
 1) lip- leap 
 2) rank-sink
 3) cut- put 
 4) feel-steal

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  Answer:4

38. English phonemes, consonants and vowels are in the following order . 
 1) 42, 21, 21 
 2) 40, 20, 20
 3) 44, 24, 20  
 4) 43, 22, 21

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  Answer:3

39. How many Plosive consonants are there?
1) 10 
2) 6 
3) 2 
4) 1

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  Answer:2

40. How many Fricative consonants are there?
1) 10 
2) 6 
3) 2 
4) 1

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  Answer:1

41. The principle involved in Deductive Method is_____
 1) specific examples to generalization of rule
 2) generic examples to generalization of rule
 3) generalized rule to specific examples
 4) specific examples to special rule

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  Answer:3

42. Read the following statements. The correct statement is_____
 1) Group method of reading brings in indiscipline.
 2) Role pay is difficult to administer in the classroom.
 3) Audio-lingual method does not consider language skills
 4) Information gap activities promote language used in real-life situations.

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  Answer:4

43. Practical devices used by the teacher in the classroom are called_____
 1) Exercises 
 2) Approaches  
 3) Methods 
 4) Techniques

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  Answer:4

44. Direct Method does not believe in_____
 1) exposure to language through situations
 2) examples followed by rules
 3) association of ideas and objects
 4) teaching through translation

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  Answer:4

45. Bangalore Project was undertaken by_____
 1) West Bengal Government
 2) N. S. Prabhu 
 3) CBSE
 4) British Council

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  Answer:2

46. COST stands for_____
 1) Communication Oriented Situational Teaching
 2) Communication Oriented Structural Teaching
 3) Communication Oral Situational Teaching
 4) Communicative Oriented Situational Teaching

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  Answer:2

47.________employs association of ideas and objects or concepts 'experience with expressions'.
 1) Reading Method
 2) Bilingual Method
 3) Direct Method
 4) Grammar Translation Method

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  Answer:3

48. _________establishes a relation between theory and practice.
 1) Approach 
 2) Method
 3) Technique 
 4) All

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  Answer:1

49. A method is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material. Within one approach there can be_____
 1) two methods 
 2) four methods
 3) many methods 
 4) six methods

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  Answer:3

50. Grammar translation method does not:
 1) give importance to grammar
 2) encourage learning through mother tongue
 3) help learn English grammar
 4) enhance the learner's communicative skills immediately

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  Answer:4

Published date : 10 Dec 2018 02:35PM