SEC -1 Suggestion (old) for English Honours ,
Bankura University (old) ,
Course Code: AH/ENG/305/SEC-1
1. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) Discuss the principles of coordination and subordination. Elucidate your answer with suitable
examples.
b) What are the different varieties of past tense and future tense forms of verbs in English?
Discuss with examples.
c) Discuss with examples different kinds of adverbial clauses in English.
d) Discuss with examples how the present tense of a verb is used to suggest different times (both present and future)? How is the simple past tense different from the present perfect tense of a verb?
2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) What is the audio-lingual method of language teaching? Discuss its merits and demerits.
b) Do you think that the grammar-translation method is a very effective method of language teaching? Discuss pros and cons of the method.
c) What is communicative method of language teaching? Discuss how it has attained wide popularity in the last few decades.
d) What are the basic assumptions of grammar-translation method? Discuss.
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10=10
a) Write a letter to your friend regarding your use of time in the pandemic situation.
b) Write a paragraph on your experience of online classes during lockdown.
c) Write a report on the pandemic situation in your area. You may include the following
points: the reasons behind the spread of the epidemic in your area – impact –
preventive measures taken by the administration – awareness of the local people.
d) Write a paragraph on the adverse effects of mobile phones./Write a paragraph on Plastic Pollution.
4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2=10
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?
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