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PVCH. Sashtry
Head, Department of
English, Indian Digital
Schools, Vijayawada.

SA & SGT- English

Teaching pronunciation
A sentence is made of words. A
word is made of letters. A letter is made of.. sound. It is sound that makes
a language, which starts with the ear.
When a baby starts to talk, he does it
by hearing the sounds his mother and
imitating them. Normal babies unlike
a deaf one can hear and can imitate.
They are wonderful imitators and this
gift of imitation given us the gift of
speech, lasts for a number of years. It
is well known that a child of ten years
old or less can learn any language perfectly, if it is brought up surrounded
by that language, no matter where it
was born and who its parents were.
But after this age, ability to imitate perfectly becomes less and we all know
only too well that adults have great difficulty in mastering the pronunciation(as well as other parts) of a foreign language. Why is this? Why should this gift of imitation we all have as
children disappear in later life? Why
grown up people can't pick up the
characteristic sound of a foreign
language as a child can? The answer is
' that our native language won't let us'.
Speech depends on hearing. Therefore, we must hear English. But just
hearing it is not enough, we must listen to it and we must listen to it not
for the meaning but for the sound of it.
Letters are written. Sounds are spoken. There are 44 phonemes in English.
A phoneme can be explained as the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the 'm' of mat and the 'b' of bat in English. Of these, vowels are 12, consonants are 24 and diphthongs are 8. A diphthong is a complex speech sound or glide that begins
with one vowel and gradually changes
to another vowel within the same syllable, as (oi) in boil or (i) in fine.

Model Questions
1. Identify the suitable word to
insert in the blank given.
Janaki was______ injured in the
accident and died in an hour.
a) Seriously
b) fatally
c) fatefully
d) vitally

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2. Identify the word opposite in meaning of the underlined one in the
following sentence.
I love children's innocence and
lack of guile.
a) Profusion b) deception
c) reception d) blamelessness.
3. Pick out the word opposite in meaning of the underlined word in
the following sentence.
One can't deny the eternal and
immutable principle of right and
wrong.
a) Changeable b) unbeatable
c) commuting d) muted
Choose the words that are almost
similar in meaning of the underlined words in the following sentences.
4. I can't go on with your saw for I have been bored with its repetition.
a) An old horse b) a short poem
c) a wise saying d) a boring story.
5. He shook his head and gave me a
rueful smile.
a) Fearful
b) sorrowful
c) defensive
d) meaningful
Read the following passage and
answer the questions that follow.
Some years after World War I the
Prince of Wales visited a hospital for
hopelessly wounded veterans. Beside
each broken body he stopped and chatted. While he was being led to the
doorway the Prince asked, 'I understand you have thirty six patients here.
But I have seen only twenty nine."
They gave the excuse that the rest were too horribly wounded for him
to see. "Is it for my sake or theirs you are not taking me there?" "For yours, sir." "Then I insist you show me
in." Here too the Prince stopped by each and thanked him for his sacrifice.
Once more he turned to the guide
and asked, "Where is the seventh?"
The nurse objected, "Please don't ask
to see him, sir. It can do no good." But the visitor persisted and was taken
into a darkened room to what was
left of a human body-blind, twisted,
frighteningly disfigured. The prince
turned white, his lips were drawn,
and tears trickled down his cheeks.
Impetuously he bent and kissed the
cheeks of the broken hero.
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a) A person who is long experienced or practised in an activity

or capacity
b) A person who has served in the armed forces
c) An old soldier who has seen
long service.
d) Any one of the above.
The Prince asked while leading
to the doorway
a) That he didn't understand why
he had seen only twenty nine.
b) That he didn't understand why
he hadn't seen thirty six
c) That he understood that they
had thirty six
d) That he understood that he had
seen only twenty nine
The nurse didn't take him to them
because
a) The rest were too horribly wounded
b) The nurse herself was unable
to see them in such wretched
condition.
c) She thought they might be disturbed by the Prince's arrival
d) The Prince wouldn't help feel
disgusted with.
The Prince bent and kissed the
patient
a) Passionately b) emotionally
c) excitedly
d) energetically
When somebody is lying, you say that he is telling me a fairy
tale. What is the figure of speech
employed used here?
a) Euphemism b) Metaphor
c) Hyperbole d) Personification
The word 'politician' has it stress
on its..
a) First syllable
b) second syllable
c) third syllable
d) no stress because it is a polysyllabic word.
Identify the grammatically correct sentence.
India is unable to compete with
another countries in the field of
education
India is unable to compete with
another country in the field of
education.
a) Both sentences are right
b) both sentences are wrong
c) only first sentence is right
d) only second sentence is right.
We know what we are but we
don't know what we shall be.
The above sentence is a..
a) Complex sentence
b) Compound sentence
c) Simple sentence
d) Compound-complex
A person who looks on the
brighter side of things and people
is known as..
a) Sycophant b) optimist
c) cynic
d) pessimist
One who doesn't care for literature or art is a..
a) Barbarian b) Philistine
c) Illiterate
d) Primitive

16. All the English consonants are

divided into..
a) Five groups b) four groups
c) three groups d) six groups
17. When asked what grammar is, it
can be defined as..
a) A body of rules
b) A Practical analysis of a language
c) It is the analytical and terminological study of a sentence
d) All the above three.
18. The definition 'words in their best order is prose and the best words in their best order is poetry' is
given by..
a) William Hazlitt
b) Francis Bacon
c) S.T. Coleridge
d) Robert Lynd.
19. Identify the correctly spelt word
a) Occurred
b) occured
c) ocurred
d) occurrd
20. Identify the wrongly spelt word
of the following
a) Decieve
b) relieve
c) believe
d) All are correct
Improve the sentence given by
choosing the best option.
21. Your advice is no different from
the other friend .
a) Not different
b) No different from that of the
c) Not different from the
d) No improvement.
22. Identify the correct words in the
following blanks.
You can't provoke me ____ anger
and I wink ______ such things.
a) For, of
b) to, at
c) with, about d) of, to
23. Put the options in correct order to
complete the given sentence.
He said that those who
P) would miss a very interesting game
Q) to be played
R) between two famous teams
S) would not accompany him
a) QRPS
b) SPQR
c) SQRP
d) SRPQ
24. Choose the correct option for the
underlined words.
She did not like the movie, nor I
did.
a) Nor did I
b) nor I like it
c) nor I liked it d) nor I do.
25. For 'The Eve of St. Agnes', the
Spenserian stanza was successfully used by..
a) Lord Byron b) John Keats
c) Lord Tennyson d) PB Shelley
26. Fill in the blanks with the suitable names of poets.
The term 'Metaphysical' as applied to poetry, was first used by
____ who borrowed it from ____
who wrote it about John Donne.
a) Dr. Johnson, Dryden
b) George Herbert, Henry Vaugham
c) Sir John Suckling, John Cleveland
d) Alexander Pope, Richard Crashaw
27. A good lesson plan is the basis
of..
a) good teaching

b) becoming a good teacher

c) good learning method
d) becoming a planned teacher
28. From the technical point of view,
the class readier should be
a) related to the child's local and
social background
b) related to the family's neighbourhood and environment.
c) in the form of stories, letters,
dialogues, autobiographies etc.
d) religious and adventurous.
29. The All India Seminar on the Teaching of English in Secondary
Schools was held at___ in ___
a) Kharagpur, November 1957
b) Nagpur, December, 1957
c) Raipur, December, 1958
d) Khatmandu, 1958.
30. The passive form of 'Circumstances will oblige me to go' is
a) I will oblige to go in such circumstances
b) I will be obliged to go under
any circumstances.
c) I shall oblige to go circu-mstantially
d) I shall be obliged to go

Key
1) b,
6) d,
11) c,
16) a,
21) b,
26) a,

2) d,
7) d,
12) d,
17) d,
22) b,
27) a,

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3) a,
8) d,
13) d,
18) c,
23) b,
28) a,

4) a,
9) b,
14) b,
19) a,
24) a,
29) b,

5) b,
10) a,
15) b,
20) a,
25) b,
30) d.

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