23. Model Exam Paper X


 Government College of Teacher Education, Thiruvananthapuram
Second Semester BEd. Degree Model Examination, October 2013
(Restructured)B- Optional Subjects : ENGLISH
Paper X : Pedagogical Analysis of Syllabus in English
 Time : 2 Hours                                                                                                   Max:  50 Marks
 I. Answer one question
1. Develop a Lesson Plan for  45 minutes duration on  the passage given below to teach
      the pupils of Standard IX
Make The Right Choice
[The Print Media stand united to speak about a current issue that affects the whole world]
Monday, December 7, 2009
Today  56  newspapers in  45 countries  take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice  through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces  a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our  planet  and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers are apparent for our generation. Now the facts have started  to speak: the  Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices  provide  a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific  journals the question  is no longer whether  humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. So far, the world’s response has been feeble and half-hearted.

We call on the representatives of the 192 countries gathered in Copenhagen not to hesitate, not to fall into dispute, not to blame each other but to seize  opportunity  from the greatest modern failure of politics. This should not be a fight between the rich world and the poor world, or between east and west. Climate change affects everyone and must be solved by everyone. The science is complex but the facts are clear. The world needs to take steps to limit temperature rise. Even a small increase would parch continents turning farmland into desert. Half of all species could become extinct, untold millions of people would be displaced, whole nations drowned by the sea.                                                                            [Standard IX  Course Book, SCERT]

OR
2. Develop a Lesson Plan  to teach the following poem to the pupils of Standard VIII              
                         The Bat
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes  the attic of an aging house.

His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.

He loops in crazy  figures half  the night
Among  the trees  that face the corner light.

But  when he brushes  up against  a screen,
We are afraid  of what our eyes have  seen:

For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings  can wear a human face.- Theodore Roethke
                           
                                                  [Standard IX  Course Book, SCERT]
                                                                                                                (16 X 1 = 16 Marks )

                                                                                                                            [P.T.O.]
II Answer six questions (not exceeding one page each):
3. “…and don’t look at me”, she said and turned away….”
    Explain the grammar item that the words in italics indicate and make meaningful
    sentences  for the following:  a. turn away   b. turn down     c. turn off
4. Explain ‘elicitation’  as an  ‘art of questioning’ with reference to  a passage prescribed
    for study in the Standard IX Course Book.
5. Suggest two activities each for teaching Notions and Functions.
6. Suggest  an activity based on a  lesson  of your choice for developing  Musical  Intelligence.
7. At the  end of  the battle, the combatant dead, a man  approached him
    and said to him: Don’t die, I love you so much!’
    but the corpse,  alas!, kept on dying.
     -Lines from ‘Mass’ by Cesar Vallejo [Std IX Course Book] suggest activities for
      familiarizing pupils with the relevant social issue.
8. Mention any two common grammatical  errors  made by pupils in  their written
     assignment and suggest appropriate remedial measures.
9. What is the objective of introducing the activity titled ‘Between you and your partner’
     in the SCERT Course Book? Suggest pupil role and teacher role for any similar
     activity you can recall.
10. Suggest preparations to be made by the teacher for a listening task using
       a technological aid  in the class.
11. With reference to a lesson in the SCERT Course Book, prepare questions to test any
       four mental processes.
12. Prepare a  Checklist for evaluating the presentation stage in a Lesson  Plan.
                                                                                                               (4 X 6 = 24 Marks)

III. Answer all questions in one or two sentences each:
13. Identify any two aims of teaching poetry with reference to the poem ‘General  your
       tank is a powerful vehicle’.
14. Identify any two purposes of  Role Play.
15. What does the use of bold letters in the following words indicate ?
      Conduct,  Conducts
16. Write a class room situation to teach ‘rising intonation’.
17. Mark the stress: a. compassion b. obvious c. admonish d. glory
18. What  is the use of a  Practice/ Work Book at the secondary level?
19. Suggest ways of teaching the two words given below:
      a. appetite b. diet
20. Suggest a suitable Project Work   based on  a lesson of your choice in the Standard IX
      SCERT  Course Book.
21.What suggestions should  the teacher give  pupils when they are  preparing
      slogans/captions  based  on  a  lesson.
22. Suggest  a grammar book with exercises  for use by pupils on a regular basis in
      the classroom.
                                                                                                                (1X10 = 10 Marks)


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