SUGGESTION OF SEC-1,BANKURA UNIVERSITY,ENGLISH HONOURS ,2024 ,SUGGESTION OF ENGLISH HONOURS BANKURA UNIVERSITY

SUGGESTION OF SEC-1,BANKURA UNIVERSITY,ENGLISH HONOURS ,

2024 ,SUGGESTION OF ENGLISH HONOURS BANKURA UNIVERSITY

BY

 PKG SIR B.A ENG(HONS) M.A (1ST CLASS)

SUGGESTION OF ENGLISH HONOURS BANKURA UNIVERSITY

SEC-1

SUGGESTION OF SEC-1 ENGLISH HONOURS ,2024 

BANKURA UNIVERSITY

Course Title: English Language Teaching

Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

1. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

(a) Discuss with examples different kinds of adverbial clauses in English.

(b) Discuss the varieties of present tense forms of verbs in English and show with examples how

they are used in sentences.

(c) Show by giving specific examples how subordination and co-ordination are done in complex

and compound sentences in English.

(d) Discuss with examples different types of past tense in English language.

2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

(a) Do you think that the traditional method of second language teaching is still an effective one?

Discuss in detail.

(b) What is the audio-lingual method of teaching? Analyse its merits and demerits.

(c) Explain how the use of technology can improve communicative competence at the

undergraduate level.

(d) Discuss the basic features of the Audio-Lingual method of English language teaching.

Comment on is application in the Indian classroom.

3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10=10

a) Write a paragraph on the uses and abuses of social media.

b) Draft a job application for the position of Assistant Teacher addressed to the principal of a reputed English Medium School in your locality. Attach a biodata in support of your application .

(c) Write a paragraph on “Uses and Misuses of smart phones”.

(d) Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper about the non-compliance of the people with

Covid-19 protocols in the public places in Bankura town.(OLD SYLLABUS)

(e)Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper about the increasing traffic congestion in

Bankura town.(for old)(OLD SYLLABUS)

4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2=10

Part-A

(a) Rewrite the following sentence using a noun clause: “He confessed his guilt”.

(b) Mention any two of the TLM (Teaching-Learning Materials) used in English language teaching.

(c) What are the thrust areas of the grammar translation method of language teaching?

(d) Identify any two demerits of the communicative method of language teaching.

(e)Differentiate between the past perfect tense and the simple past tense with suitable

examples.

(f) What is conjoining ? Give an example.

(g)Differentiate between subordination and coordination.

(h)Give two qualities of a good listener.

(i) On seeing the lion, the hunter climbed up a tree. (Transform this sentence into a complex

sentence.)

(j) He has been acting as Secretary since last year. – Identify and clarify the specific tense in this

sentence.

Part-B

 (a) Define, with an example, noun clause.

 (b) Mention any two of the TLM (Teaching-Learning Materials) used in English language

teaching.

 (c) “He cannot come to the class because he is ill” — Name and identity the subordinate clause

in the sentence.

 (d) Give one example each of present indefinite and present perfect continuous tense.

 (e) What is a non-finite clause? Give an example.

 (f) Give one example each of active voice and passive voice used in sentences.

 (g) “The Director of the Company has just arrived” — Identity the specific tense of the sentence.

 (h) What is ‘active listening’?

 (i) What is ‘inductive teaching’?

 (j) Join the following sentences using a relative clause: A bomb caused a lot of damage. It went

off this morning. 

PART-C

a) What is a coordinator? Identify a coordinator in a sentence.

b) What is conjoining? Give an example.

c) Give an example of a defining relative clause and another of a non-defining relative clause.

d) “I shall remain absent when he will come here.” What kind of clause is the one underlined?

Identify its category and sub-category.

e) State whether the subordinate clause used in the following sentences is an adjective clause,

adverb clause or noun clause.

1.Although he is very rich, he is a miser.

2.This is the girl who talked to me yesterday.

f) What are the classroom procedures of grammar translation method?

g) What is meant by “communicative method of teaching”?

h) What is “pedagogy”?

i) For language learning which method is more effective, traditional or communicative? Give

one reason.

j) Identify any two demerits of the traditional method of language teaching.

a) What is embedding? Give an example.

b) What is a coordinating conjunction? Give an example of such a conjunction in a

sentence.

c) Differentiate between subordination and coordination.

d) Use a noun clause in the subject position of a sentence.

e) What is a relative clause? Exemplify.

f) What is the difference between a finite relative clause and a non-finite relative clause?

g) Identify a major feature of audio-lingual method of teaching.

h) Identify any two demerits of audio-lingual method of teaching.

i) Which method of language teaching is being followed worldwide?

j) What are the thrust areas of grammar-translation method of language teaching?