CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 3)

Question 1

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A rainbow appears when two things happen together: the sun is shining and there are drops of water in the air. Sunlight looks white to us, but it is really a mixture of many colours. When a ray of sunlight enters a raindrop, it bends, and the different colours bend by slightly different amounts. They spread apart, reflect off the back of the drop and come out separated, like a fan opening. Millions of drops together paint the familiar arc of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. To see a rainbow you must stand with the sun behind you and the rain in front. On a sunny day, a garden hose spraying fine drops can even make a small rainbow of its own.

According to the passage, why do the colours come out of a raindrop separated?

Accepted Answer

(D) Each colour bends by a slightly different amount

Question 2

A Class IV child is excitedly narrating what happened at her cousin's wedding and makes several grammatical errors. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate response from the teacher?

Accepted Answer

(C) Stopping her at each error and making her repeat the corrected sentence

Question 3

In the sentence 'I want to go to the market', which words would normally carry the main stress in natural spoken English?

Accepted Answer

(A) want, go, market

Question 4

A Class I teacher gives children picture books that have no words (wordless picture books). These books mainly help children to:

Accepted Answer

(A) Tell the story from the pictures in their own words, building talk and a sense of order

Question 5

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Close your fist and look at it: your heart is roughly the same size. This small organ is a powerful pump that never takes a holiday. Day and night, whether we are running or sleeping, it pushes blood through a vast system of tubes to every corner of the body. The blood carries oxygen and nourishment to the cells and brings back wastes to be removed. Like any muscle, the heart grows stronger when it is used well. Brisk walking, swimming, cycling and outdoor games make it work a little harder for a while, and over time this makes it more efficient. A heart that is cared for in childhood is more likely to serve its owner faithfully for a lifetime.

The word 'efficient' as used in the passage means

Accepted Answer

(C) doing its work well with less effort

Question 6

Errors that arise from the learner's partial knowledge of the target language itself, rather than from the influence of the mother tongue, are called:

Accepted Answer

(A) Intralingual errors

Question 7

During pair work, one learner says, 'I didn't understand. You mean the bus left early?' and her partner rephrases until both understand. The idea that such negotiation of meaning promotes acquisition is central to:

Accepted Answer

(A) Michael Long's interaction hypothesis

Question 8

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The first sign was the light. In the middle of a June afternoon, the sky over Bhadsar turned a strange yellow-brown, and the goats began to bleat and crowd against the walls. Kesri Devi had seen many such afternoons. She sent her grandson to bring in the washing, told her daughter-in-law to cover the water pots with plates, and soaked a cloth to tie across the baby's face. Ten minutes later the storm arrived, a roaring wall of dust that turned day into dusk and rattled the doors on their hinges. It lasted less than an hour. Afterwards everything in the house, from the beds to the pickle jars, wore a fine coat of sand.

What did Kesri Devi tell her daughter-in-law to do?

Accepted Answer

(B) Cover the water pots with plates

Question 9

A Class III child writes 'लड़कीयाँ' for 'लड़कियाँ' (girls) and 'नदीयाँ' for 'नदियाँ' (rivers). What does this error show, and what should the teacher do?

Accepted Answer

(A) She adds -याँ correctly but keeps the long ई; show it with pairs like रोटी–रोटियाँ

Question 10

Children in Class V keep a reading log (पठन डायरी) in which they note each book they read and write a few lines about how they liked it. For the teacher, the log mainly helps to:

Accepted Answer

(D) Track each child's reading habits, choices and responses over time

Question 11

In a school's daily 'Drop Everything And Read' (DEAR) time, everyone reads a book of their own choice for fifteen minutes. Why is it important that teachers also read their own books during this time, rather than checking notebooks?

Accepted Answer

(B) So that children see adults valuing reading for its own sake

Question 12

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Old Lalmuan and his wife make baskets from the bamboo that grows thickly on the hillside behind their house. He splits the green stems into long, thin strips with a heavy knife, so fine that they bend like ribbons. She weaves them, her fingers moving over and under, over and under, while she chats with the neighbours who stop by. Their baskets are used for everything: carrying firewood, storing rice, catching fish in the stream. Young people from the town sometimes come to watch and take photographs. They are always surprised to learn that a single basket, which seems to take shape so easily, takes the couple most of a day.

In the last sentence, who are 'They' in 'They are always surprised...'?

Accepted Answer

(C) the young visitors from town

Question 13

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On the coldest nights of January, the men and boys of the village gather round a fire of dry branches and cow-dung cakes in the open space by the old banyan tree. Women come too, after the evening meal, wrapped in shawls, and sit a little apart with the smallest children in their laps. Someone always brings peanuts to roast in the embers. The talk wanders from the price of wheat to an old quarrel about a boundary wall to a ghost story that everyone has heard before. When the fire sinks low, the old men are the last to leave. They poke the embers, pull their blankets closer, and stay on long after the young ones have gone yawning to bed.

In the sentence 'They poke the embers, pull their blankets closer...', who does 'They' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(C) the old men of the village

Question 14

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The lane behind Station Colony was too narrow for proper cricket, so the boys had made their own rules: one bounce off the wall was a single, and anything hit over the roofs was out. On Sunday, Imran forgot the second rule. He swung with all his strength, and the ball sailed over the roofs and through Mrs. Dutta's kitchen window. Nobody moved. Then Imran walked to her door, and the others, after a moment, followed him. Mrs. Dutta listened with her arms folded while they explained. She said the window would cost money, and they agreed to pay from their pocket money. Then she gave them their ball back and, to their surprise, a plate of pakoras.

In the sentence 'Mrs. Dutta listened with her arms folded while they explained', who does 'they' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(B) Imran and the other boys

Question 15

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In the village of Dhora, at the edge of the desert, the day is measured by water. Before sunrise the women and girls set out with brass pots balanced on their heads, two and sometimes three stacked one above the other, and walk to the step-well two kilometres away. They return slowly, their backs straight, never spilling a drop. Water for drinking is kept in a clay pot in the coolest corner of the house; what has been used for washing vegetables goes to the goat, and what is left after bathing is poured carefully at the roots of the single neem tree in the courtyard. Visitors from the city are often puzzled to see that nobody ever leaves a glass half full.

According to the passage, what happens to the water used for washing vegetables?

Accepted Answer

(B) It is given to the goat

Question 16

Meena in Class IV finishes every reading task quickly and reads well above her grade level. How can her teacher best meet her needs?

Accepted Answer

(D) Offer enrichment, such as harder books and open-ended tasks like writing book reviews

Question 17

A Class I child tells her teacher, 'There are three new puppies at Ramu's house, and one of them is black.' In Halliday's classification, she is mainly using language for which function?

Accepted Answer

(A) Representational (informative)

Question 18

A teacher pairs a weaker reader with a stronger peer so that, with a little help, the child can read a passage she could not manage alone. This practice is most directly based on the ideas of:

Accepted Answer

(D) Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

Question 19

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Nobody learns to ride a bicycle without wobbling, and nobody learns to write without crossing out words. Mistakes are not the opposite of learning; they are a part of it. Each error shows us where our understanding is still weak, and correcting it fixes the lesson more firmly in the mind than getting it right by luck. Yet many students are so afraid of being wrong that they would rather stay silent than try. This fear is the real enemy of progress. A teacher who treats a wrong answer as a useful clue rather than a disgrace, and who asks how the student arrived at it, helps the whole class to think more boldly.

The writer believes that a student's mistakes

Accepted Answer

(B) can show where understanding is weak and so aid learning

Question 20

A teacher first introduces simple sentences like 'This is a pen', then 'This is a red pen', and later 'This red pen is mine'. Which principle of language teaching is she following?

Accepted Answer

(A) From simple to complex

Question 21

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A green leaf may look quiet, but it is one of the busiest places on earth. It works like a small kitchen. The roots of the plant send water up through the stem, and the leaf takes in a gas called carbon dioxide from the air through tiny openings on its surface. Using the energy of sunlight, the leaf turns the water and the gas into food for the whole plant. The green colouring in the leaf, called chlorophyll, is what captures the sunlight. While making this food, the leaf also gives out oxygen, the very gas that we and other animals need to breathe. So whenever we stand in a garden by day, the leaves around us are quietly cooking and refreshing the air at the same time.

According to the passage, what captures the sunlight in a leaf?

Accepted Answer

(C) The green colouring called chlorophyll

Question 22

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Every Thursday the empty ground beside the canal in Sonpur turns into a market. By eight in the morning the first bullock carts arrive, and by ten the ground is a maze of sheets spread on the earth, each one heaped with something different: onions and green chillies, steel pots, bright ribbons, plastic toys, dried fish, earthen lamps. Sellers call out prices in sing-song voices, and buyers pretend to walk away before coming back to bargain once more. Old friends from distant villages meet here and exchange news over glasses of tea. By sunset the sheets are folded, the carts creak homeward and the ground lies bare again, as if the noise and colour had been only a dream, waiting for the next Thursday.

According to the passage, what do buyers at the market do while bargaining?

Accepted Answer

(C) Pretend to walk away and then come back

Question 23

Which of the following is a commonly cited limitation of the direct method?

Accepted Answer

(D) It needs very fluent teachers, and abstract words are hard to explain without the mother tongue

Question 24

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The kabaddi match between Rampur and Bhawanipur was played every year on the threshing ground after the harvest. Lines were drawn with lime, a string cot was set out for the elders who acted as judges, and the whole of both villages came to watch. This year Rampur's best raider, Sukhdev, had hurt his ankle, and his team looked to fifteen-year-old Mohan, who had never played in the big match. On his first raid he was caught at once. On his second, he slipped between two defenders, touched one on the shoulder and lunged back across the line, still chanting. The elders on the cot nodded to each other. Rampur lost by two points, but on the walk home it was Mohan's name that everyone was repeating.

Why did the Rampur team look to Mohan this year?

Accepted Answer

(B) Their best raider had hurt his ankle

Question 25

A Class VIII student uses 'nice' in almost every sentence of her story, so the teacher shows her how to use a thesaurus. What should the teacher also point out?

Accepted Answer

(D) Listed words differ in shade of meaning and use, so she must pick the one that fits

Question 26

NCERT's position paper on the teaching of English suggests that some 'grammar', such as the appropriate use of prepositions in expressions like 'in time' and 'on time', may more appropriately be treated as:

Accepted Answer

(A) Learning of vocabulary, including idiomatic or fixed expressions

Question 27

Match the writing practices with their descriptions. A. Modelled writing B. Shared writing C. Freewriting D. Reading-response journal. 1. Writing non-stop for a few minutes to find ideas, ignoring errors 2. Noting one's own reactions and questions after reading 3. The teacher writes before the class, thinking aloud 4. The class suggests sentences; the teacher writes them, discussing spelling

Accepted Answer

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

Question 28

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The power had gone out again, and the whole street was dark. Grumbling, Anu followed her father up to the terrace, where it was at least cooler. She lay on the mat and stared upward, and slowly, as her eyes got used to the dark, the sky filled with more stars than she had ever seen from the town. Her father pointed out a few shapes he remembered from his boyhood in the village, where, he said, nights like this were ordinary. They lay there a long time without talking. When the lights suddenly came back on all along the street and the stars faded, Anu was surprised to hear herself groan, and she saw her father smile in the glow from the windows.

Why did Anu groan when the lights came back on?

Accepted Answer

(A) The lights made the stars she was enjoying fade

Question 29

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Nobody in Gali Number Four remembers who first fed Kalu. He is a lean black dog with one ear that stands up and one that flops, and he belongs to everyone and no one. He sleeps outside the dairy, eats at whichever door is kindest that day, and walks the smallest children to the school gate each morning. Strangers who enter the lane after dark find him standing quietly in their path until someone calls out that they are welcome. Last winter, when he fell ill, the residents took turns sitting with him and collected money for the vet. They say it was the only time in twenty years that everyone in the lane agreed about anything.

In the sentence 'They say it was the only time in twenty years...', who does 'They' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(D) the residents of the lane

Question 30

The three-language formula was first adopted as part of national education policy in:

Accepted Answer

(D) The National Policy on Education, 1968

Question 31

A teacher gives students a paragraph with blanks and a list of words to fill in, so that the final text is almost the same for every student. This kind of writing task is called:

Accepted Answer

(B) Controlled writing

Question 32

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The storm broke just after dinner. The wind banged the shutters, rain lashed the windows, and then, with a flicker and a pop, every light in the house went out. Little Gauri began to cry. Her father found a candle and set it in the middle of the floor, and the whole family gathered round it on the mat, their shadows huge on the walls. Then her mother began to sing an old song from her own childhood, softly at first. Her father joined in, wrong words and all, and soon even Gauri was clapping. When the power came back an hour later, nobody got up to switch on the television. They simply blew out the candle and went on singing in the light.

Which of the following is the most suitable title for the passage?

Accepted Answer

(B) Songs on a Stormy Night

Question 33

Consider the following statements in the light of research on age and second-language learning. 1. Learners who begin a second language after puberty cannot become proficient in it. 2. Late starters can become highly proficient, though a native-like accent is harder for them to achieve. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(D) 2 only

Question 34

While analysing written work, a teacher finds that nearly the whole of her Class VI makes the same error in using 'ने' with past-tense verbs. What does this most likely indicate?

Accepted Answer

(B) The point needs to be re-taught to the whole class in a different way

Question 35

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Now that every phone contains a calculator, some people ask why children should still learn to add, subtract and multiply in their heads. The question deserves a serious answer. A calculator is quick and accurate, but only if the right numbers are entered in the right order, and it cannot tell us whether its answer makes sense. A shopper who has a feel for numbers will notice at once when a bill for three small items comes to a thousand rupees; one who relies entirely on the machine may not. Mental arithmetic builds this sense of size and reasonableness. The calculator is best used, therefore, by those who could manage without it.

What does the writer imply in the last sentence of the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) People who understand numbers themselves make the best use of calculators

Question 36

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Ishaan had grown up in the city and had never seen a firefly. On his first night at his uncle's farm, he stepped out after dinner and stopped in astonishment. Along the edge of the paddy field, hundreds of tiny lights were blinking on and off among the grasses, as if the stars had come down to rest. They drifted, rose and sank, never all lit at the same moment, so that the whole field seemed to shimmer. His cousin, who had seen them every summer of her life, laughed at his open mouth. But she came out and sat beside him on the field's raised edge all the same, and the two of them stayed there in silence until his aunt called them in.

In the passage, the word 'shimmer' means:

Accepted Answer

(A) shine with a soft, flickering light

Question 37

A teacher shows flash cards of frequently used words such as 'the', 'is' and 'was', and children learn to recognise each one instantly as a whole, without sounding it out. Such words are called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Sight words

Question 38

The natural approach, which emphasises comprehensible input, a silent period before speech and a low-anxiety classroom, was developed by Krashen together with:

Accepted Answer

(C) Tracy Terrell

Question 39

Arrange the steps of teaching a Hindi grammar point by the inductive method (आगमन विधि) in the usual order: (A) Observing and comparing the examples (B) Applying the rule in new sentences (C) Presenting several examples (D) Framing the rule from the examples (generalisation)

Accepted Answer

(C) C, A, D, B

Question 40

A teacher has the whole class recite rhymes and short poems together (सामूहिक पाठ) with clear pronunciation and rhythm. For shy children with unclear pronunciation, the main advantage is that they:

Accepted Answer

(D) Practise sounds and rhythm without the fear of being singled out

Question 41

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The theme of the inter-school drawing competition was 'My Town', and the hall was full of children bent over sheets of chart paper. Most drew what the judges expected: the clock tower, the river bridge, the busy market. Karthik, who was twelve, drew none of these. He drew the inside of his grandfather's tailoring shop, seen from below, the way he had seen it as a small child sitting on the floor: the huge black sewing machine, the hanging measuring tape, his grandfather's feet on the treadle, and scraps of bright cloth falling like rain. He did not win first prize. But the chief judge asked whether she could keep the drawing, and it still hangs in the town library.

What did Karthik draw for the competition?

Accepted Answer

(C) The inside of his grandfather's tailoring shop

Question 42

Which of the following is a valid reason for giving more time to silent reading than to reading aloud in the upper primary classes?

Accepted Answer

(C) Silent reading is faster and allows the reader to focus on meaning

Question 43

Which feedback on a Class IV child's story is most likely to help her improve her writing?

Accepted Answer

(B) 'Your opening is exciting. Can you add what the dog did after it ran away?'

Question 44

In a Class VIII discussion of a poem, two students disagree: one says it is about a mother's love, the other says it is about loneliness. How should the teacher respond?

Accepted Answer

(B) Ask each to support the reading with lines from the poem

Question 45

After reading a story, Class IV children fill in a chart showing the characters, the setting, the problem and how it was solved. This graphic organiser mainly helps them to:

Accepted Answer

(C) Understand the structure of the story and improve comprehension

Question 46

Halliday described three aspects of children's language development. Match them with the examples. A. Learning language B. Learning through language C. Learning about language. 1. A Class V child explains the water cycle to her group in her own words 2. Class VII students notice how Hindi verbs change with gender 3. A toddler adds new words and sentence patterns to her speech

Accepted Answer

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

Question 47

NCERT's position paper on teaching English calls the early learning of rhymes and poems by beginners a form of 'pseudo-production'. Why does it give this a legitimate place in the curriculum?

Accepted Answer

(B) It gives beginners early output from understood input; true production comes later

Question 48

Consider the following statements about reading. 1. A good reader changes the speed and manner of reading according to her purpose and the kind of text. 2. Reading every text slowly, word by word, is the best way to understand it. 3. Looking over the headings and pictures before reading a chapter helps a reader anticipate its content. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) Only 1 and 3

Question 49

A child says, 'Yesterday I eated two mangoes.' The teacher replies warmly, 'Oh, you ate two mangoes yesterday! Were they sweet?' The teacher's response is an example of:

Accepted Answer

(B) A recast, modelling the correct form without interrupting communication

Question 50

Arrange these reading practices in order of decreasing teacher support: (A) Guided reading (B) Reading aloud by the teacher (C) Independent reading (D) Shared reading

Accepted Answer

(C) B, D, A, C

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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