CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 13)

Question 1

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

At the forest camp, the day begins with the elephants' bath. Every morning Bhaskar leads Lakshmi, a forty-year-old elephant, down to the river, where she lies on her side in the shallow water like a grey hill. He scrubs her with half a coconut husk while she sighs and blows water over her own back. Lakshmi does not work much any more. She once carried logs, but now she only walks with the forest guards on patrol, and she can smell a wild elephant herd long before the guards can see it. Bhaskar talks to her all the time, in a language that is partly Kannada, partly Tamil and partly something only the two of them understand.

According to the passage, how does Lakshmi help the forest guards now?

Accepted Answer

(A) She smells wild herds before the guards see them

Question 2

According to NEP 2020, wherever possible, the medium of instruction should be the home language, mother tongue, local language or regional language:

Accepted Answer

(A) Until at least Grade 5, but preferably till Grade 8 and beyond

Question 3

To find out whether Class IV children have understood and felt a poem about the monsoon, which assessment is most suitable?

Accepted Answer

(B) Asking them to show in words, drawings or actions what the poem made them feel

Question 4

Which of the following is the LEAST effective way of developing vocabulary in upper primary students?

Accepted Answer

(D) Making students memorise twenty isolated words with meanings every day

Question 5

In a well-known study, infants who played with an adult speaking a new language learned to tell apart its speech sounds, while infants who heard the same speech only from a video did not. This finding most strongly supports the view that:

Accepted Answer

(B) Social interaction plays a key role in early language acquisition

Question 6

A Class V teacher has children write about what they do after school using the frame 'First, I ... Then, I ... Next, I ... After that, I ... Finally, I ...'. What does this task mainly develop?

Accepted Answer

(A) Using sequence words to order events in a personal account

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT an appropriate use of the library period in a language class?

Accepted Answer

(B) Finishing pending textbook exercises and homework

Question 8

Match the Articles of the Constitution of India with their subjects. A. Article 343 B. Article 350A C. Article 350B D. Article 351. 1. Special Officer for linguistic minorities 2. Instruction in the mother tongue at the primary stage 3. Official language of the Union 4. Directive for the development of the Hindi language

Accepted Answer

(A) A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4

Question 9

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The clack of Salma's loom begins each morning before the birds have fully woken. She sits on a low plank with her feet on the pedals, and the shuttle flies from her right hand to her left and back again, carrying a thread of deep blue through hundreds of white ones. One line at a time, a pattern of small birds appears across the cloth. A sari takes her nearly two weeks. Sometimes visitors ask why she does not buy a machine that could finish the same length in a day. Salma smiles and runs her palm over the half-woven birds. A machine, she says, would make a hundred saris exactly alike; hers are never quite the same, and that is why people come back for them.

What is the central idea of the passage?

Accepted Answer

(D) A weaver values the uniqueness of handmade cloth

Question 10

A child who has learnt that plurals take '-s' says 'two foots' and 'three mouses'. This type of error is called:

Accepted Answer

(A) Over-generalisation

Question 11

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Animals cannot tell us in words when they are hungry, thirsty or in pain, so they depend on our attention. A dog that limps, a bullock that is overloaded, a bird with a damaged wing: each is asking for help in the only way it can. Kindness to animals begins with noticing such signs and with refusing to cause needless suffering, whether by throwing stones for fun or by leaving a pet without water in the heat. Children who learn to treat animals gently often carry the same gentleness into their dealings with people. The way we treat creatures that cannot complain is, in a sense, a test of our character.

Why does the writer call the way we treat animals 'a test of our character'?

Accepted Answer

(C) Animals cannot complain, so kindness to them shows our true nature

Question 12

Match each genre with the aim most stressed in teaching it. A. Prose (गद्य) B. Poetry (पद्य) C. Drama (नाटक) D. Story (कहानी) at the primary stage. 1. Listening with interest, imagining and retelling 2. Aesthetic enjoyment of feeling, rhythm and imagery 3. Delivering dialogue with suitable voice, gestures and expression 4. Comprehension, vocabulary and knowledge of language structure

Accepted Answer

(C) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1

Question 13

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The primary school at Kundal stands on a ridge with no road leading to it, and for nine years Mr. Lobo has walked there every morning, an hour and a quarter uphill from the bus stop. In winter he carries a torch because he sets out before light. He carries other things too: chalk, a bundle of newspapers, sometimes a football or a bag of seeds for the school garden. The children watch for him from the ridge and run down the last stretch of the path to meet him. Asked once why he never applied for a post in the town, he said that in the town there were a hundred teachers, and on the ridge there was only him.

Why does Mr. Lobo carry a torch in winter?

Accepted Answer

(B) He sets out before it is light

Question 14

In task-based language teaching, the central unit of planning and instruction is:

Accepted Answer

(B) A meaningful task with a real-world outcome, e.g. planning a picnic

Question 15

NIPUN Bharat's guidelines describe the key components of foundational language and literacy. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Accepted Answer

(C) Memorising definitions of the parts of speech

Question 16

To teach the names of fruits to Class I, a teacher brings an actual apple, banana and orange to class and lets children touch and name them. The teaching-learning material she is using is called:

Accepted Answer

(A) Realia

Question 17

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Schools often reward the student who can memorise and write well, while the one who can mend a bicycle chain, stitch a torn bag or build a sturdy bird house receives little notice. This is a pity, because skill with the hands is a form of intelligence too. Making something that works requires planning, measuring, patience and the ability to learn from failure. A carpenter must think about the strength of wood, a potter about the behaviour of clay in the fire. Many useful inventions began in workshops rather than in libraries. Giving children chances to make and repair things does not distract them from learning; it widens what learning can mean.

As used in the passage, the word 'distract' means to

Accepted Answer

(C) draw attention away from

Question 18

A teacher has students record themselves reading a passage on a phone and then listen to the recording to find where they stumbled. This use of technology mainly supports:

Accepted Answer

(A) Self-assessment and improvement of reading fluency

Question 19

A Class V teacher holds up a new library book, says a little about it, reads out an exciting passage and stops at a cliffhanger, then places the book in the reading corner. The main purpose of such a 'book talk' is to:

Accepted Answer

(A) Arouse children's interest so that they choose to read the book themselves

Question 20

A teacher narrates a story but stops before the end and asks students, in groups, to decide and write how it might end. This mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(A) Imagination, prediction and creative writing

Question 21

In a class where children speak Bhojpuri, Maithili, Hindi and Bengali, the teacher asks them to find the word for 'water' in each of their languages and compare them. Besides valuing their languages, this activity mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(A) Metalinguistic awareness (thinking about how languages work)

Question 22

A teacher is telling a new English story to a Class II group whose home language is Hindi. Which practice best makes the story 'comprehensible input' for them?

Accepted Answer

(C) Telling it with pictures, gestures, actions and simple, familiar words

Question 23

The view that the language a person speaks shapes, and even determines, the way that person thinks about and perceives the world is known as the:

Accepted Answer

(B) Linguistic relativity hypothesis of Benjamin Lee Whorf

Question 24

The terms 'restricted code' and 'elaborated code', used to describe different ways of using language in different social settings, were introduced by:

Accepted Answer

(A) Basil Bernstein

Question 25

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A library is one of the few places where a person can enter freely and leave richer without spending a single coin. Its shelves hold stories from distant lands, explanations of how machines work, the lives of explorers and the secrets of the stars. A child whose family cannot afford many books can read as widely there as anyone else. Libraries also offer something rarer than books: a quiet space in which to think. Many have reading rooms where students who lack a calm corner at home can study in peace. A good librarian, who knows the shelves well and enjoys matching the right book to the right reader, is a guide worth seeking out.

Which title best suits the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) The Library: A Treasure Open to All

Question 26

Before reading a passage on snakes, Class VI students mark statements such as 'All snakes are poisonous' as 'agree' or 'disagree', and return to them after reading. Besides arousing interest, what does this anticipation guide mainly do?

Accepted Answer

(D) Brings out students' existing beliefs and makes them read to check them

Question 27

A teacher teaches Class VI students to look up words in a Hindi dictionary (शब्दकोश) and encourages them to use it while writing. This mainly helps them to:

Accepted Answer

(C) Check spellings and meanings on their own and become independent learners

Question 28

To test listening, a teacher asks Class II children to listen to a short story and then write long answers to questions about it. What is the main problem with this test?

Accepted Answer

(A) It depends heavily on writing ability, so it may not measure listening alone

Question 29

The principle that language is a set of habits formed through repetition and practice, so that learners should drill sentence patterns until responses become automatic, is associated with:

Accepted Answer

(A) Behaviourism and the audio-lingual method

Question 30

A one-year-old says 'milk' to mean 'I want milk' or 'Give me milk'. A single word used to express a whole idea is characteristic of the:

Accepted Answer

(B) Holophrastic stage

Question 31

A child of average intelligence persistently reverses letters such as 'b' and 'd', struggles to decode words and reads very slowly despite regular teaching. This pattern of difficulty is most likely:

Accepted Answer

(A) Dyslexia

Question 32

On the first day of English in a village school, the teacher asks the children to list English words they already use, such as bus, ticket, mobile, doctor and cricket. What is the main value of this?

Accepted Answer

(D) It shows them they already know some English, which builds confidence

Question 33

Returning Class VII essays, a teacher underlines errors and marks them with codes such as 'T' for tense and 'Sp' for spelling, then asks students to correct them themselves. The main advantage of this approach is that it:

Accepted Answer

(D) Makes students notice their errors and think about the correct forms

Question 34

Class VII students turn a story from their Hindi textbook into a short play and perform it. Besides speaking skills, this activity mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(C) Dialogue writing and insight into the characters

Question 35

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A strange thing happens when we share. A sum of money divided between two people becomes smaller for each, but many of the best things in life grow when they are divided. A joke told to a friend becomes funnier as you both laugh. A skill taught to a classmate becomes clearer in your own mind as you explain it. A worry shared with someone who cares grows lighter. Even a meal tastes better when it is eaten together. Children who learn early to share toys, books and time discover that they lose very little and gain a great deal. Sharing, in this sense, is less like giving away and more like multiplying.

Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

Accepted Answer

(B) When Sharing Multiplies Instead of Dividing

Question 36

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The monkeys of Dhanoli consider the town's main road to be their private property, and they collect a toll from every visitor. Tourists who arrive clutching bags of peanuts and corn soon learn this. A monkey may sit politely on the railing, gazing at the mountains like a philosopher, until the very moment a bag is opened; then there is a blur of grey fur, the bag is gone, and the philosopher is eating peanuts on a rooftop with an expression of deep innocence. The shopkeepers, who have lost more bananas than they can count, tie up their goods with wire. The tourists, after their first shock, usually laugh, and most of them, secretly, come back the next day with more peanuts.

The tone of the passage is best described as:

Accepted Answer

(B) light and humorous

Question 37

The principle of naturalness in language teaching suggests that a second language should be taught by:

Accepted Answer

(B) Creating conditions like those of first-language learning: rich exposure and real use

Question 38

A Class IV child understands many English words when she reads or hears them, but uses only a few of them when she speaks or writes. This shows that:

Accepted Answer

(A) Her receptive vocabulary exceeds her productive vocabulary, which is normal

Question 39

A Class VIII Hindi textbook contains a one-act play (एकांकी). Which way of teaching it is most suitable?

Accepted Answer

(B) Students take roles and read or act out the dialogues in class, followed by discussion

Question 40

Class III children make small picture books about their families and festivals, and these are placed in the reading corner. The main benefit is that the children:

Accepted Answer

(D) See themselves as authors and read each other's books keenly

Question 41

Class VI students know 'kind' and 'care'. Meeting 'unkindness' and 'careless', they are helped to split each word into parts (un + kind + ness, care + less) and work out its meaning. This word-attack strategy is called:

Accepted Answer

(B) Structural (morphemic) analysis

Question 42

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Many of the games that children have played for generations need almost nothing to buy. Gilli-danda needs two pieces of wood. Hopscotch needs a stone and a few lines scratched on the ground. Kho-kho and hide-and-seek need nothing but players and open space. Because these games cost so little, every child in the lane can join in, whether her family is rich or poor. They also adapt easily: the rules can be changed to suit a small courtyard or a wide field, or to give younger players a fair chance. In an age of expensive toys, these simple games remind us that the most important things in play are friends, space and imagination.

According to the passage, what does hopscotch need?

Accepted Answer

(C) A stone and a few lines on the ground

Question 43

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In many homes, the cooking, cleaning and washing are left almost entirely to one or two people, while everyone else assumes these tasks will somehow get done. Yet a home is shared by all who live in it, and so is the work of keeping it. A child can lay the table, fold clothes, water the plants or sweep a room. Such tasks teach useful skills that every adult needs, whether a boy or a girl. They also teach something deeper: that the comfort we enjoy comes from someone's effort. Children who help at home learn to notice and value that effort, and they grow into adults who do not expect others to clear up after them.

According to the passage, besides useful skills, what deeper lesson do household tasks teach children?

Accepted Answer

(B) That the comfort we enjoy comes from someone's effort

Question 44

Many Class I children write the इ vowel sign (ि) after the consonant, because they hear the vowel after it. How should the teacher help?

Accepted Answer

(C) Explain that ि is written before the consonant but heard after it; practise familiar words

Question 45

A teacher explains the rule for the past tense in the mother tongue, then asks students to translate ten Hindi sentences into English. Which method is the teacher using?

Accepted Answer

(C) Grammar-translation method

Question 46

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In nature, living things are linked to one another like the threads of a net. Grass is eaten by deer, deer are hunted by tigers, and when plants and animals die, tiny organisms in the soil break them down, returning their nourishment to the earth so that new grass can grow. If one thread is cut, others are affected. When tigers disappear from a forest, for instance, deer may multiply so fast that they strip the young plants bare, and the forest itself begins to suffer. Protecting a single species, therefore, is often a way of protecting the whole community of life around it.

According to the passage, what may happen when tigers disappear from a forest?

Accepted Answer

(B) Deer multiply and strip the young plants bare

Question 47

The consonants from क to म in the Hindi alphabet are arranged in five groups (वर्ग) on the basis of:

Accepted Answer

(D) The place in the mouth where each sound is produced

Question 48

Many Class I children can 'read' the words on familiar biscuit packets, bus boards and shop signs, though they cannot yet read the same words in a book. How should the teacher respond?

Accepted Answer

(B) Bring such packets, labels and signs to class and build reading activities on them

Question 49

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When someone succeeds, we are quick to call it luck. The girl who wins the science prize was lucky with her experiment; the boy who runs fastest was born with long legs. Luck does play a part in life, and it would be foolish to deny it. But behind most achievements lie months of effort that nobody saw: experiments that failed and were tried again, mornings of practice in the cold. Calling it all luck is unfair to the person who did the work, and it is also unwise for ourselves, because it suggests that effort is pointless. Chance may open a door, but it is steady work that carries us through it.

Which statement best expresses the writer's view?

Accepted Answer

(D) Luck plays a part, but success comes mostly from steady effort

Question 50

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By the time a child wakes up in the morning, the body has gone without food for ten or twelve hours. Breakfast, as its name suggests, breaks this long fast. Children who skip it often feel tired and restless by the middle of the morning, and they may find it hard to pay attention in class or to solve a sum that would usually be easy. A good breakfast need not be elaborate. A bowl of poha or upma with some vegetables, a couple of rotis with dal, or porridge with milk and fruit will give steady energy until lunch. Getting up a little earlier to eat calmly is better than rushing out with an empty stomach.

According to the passage, children who skip breakfast often

Accepted Answer

(B) feel tired and restless by mid-morning

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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