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All teacher recruitment tests will have questions on study and reference skills in English subject. English section of TGT / PGT / DSC / TET / TRT exams focus on this topic. Here we are giving important study material and practice questions in English Methodology.

Study Skills and Reference Skills

Study skills are the skills that integrate all the four language skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. The purpose of study skills is to help the learner become independent of the teacher .These study skills are also called supplementary skills or additional skills.

This is a process whereby the teaching will focus on learning skills such as using a dictionary, encyclopedia, and catalog in
the library, index in a book or understanding nonverbal materials such as graphs, charts, maps etc.

The Important Study Skills:

The skill of Note making
Summarizing
Graphic Organizers

The Skill of Note taking:

Note taking is a product of the listening skill. It is an active thinking process where the learner takes notes while listening to a
lecture in a class. This is a process of good comprehension as learner will have to identify the essential information from the nonessential. The listener has to pay full attention while taking the notes.

Process of Note taking:

The learner should take the primary information like the date, time, topic and the name of the speaker. The learner has to consolidate the information in a nutshell. To accomplish this, he or she can create his/her own short forms or abbreviations. The learner should take down the minutes of a meeting or seminar.

Record and organise the correct sequence of the points, ideas or themes. Note taking is not only a study skill, but also a skill that is necessary in any meeting.

The Skill of Note making:

Note making is the ability to jot down important points and make notes from books, articles,magazines, newspapers, journals…
etc. Note making is the product of reading skills. Note making is easier than note taking. We can read a text any number of times but
we cannot ask the speaker to repeat his / her words.Note making is an offshoot of good reading skills. It demands both skimming and
scanning skills.Comprehending, absorbing and putting them in order is important in note making.

Process of Note making:

Understand the main idea of the writer.
Read the text between the lines and beyond the lines.
Be clear and precise while making notes.
Create your own short form, symbols, abbreviation.
Write only essential points.
Avoid repetition.

Summarizing:

Summarizing is associated with reading comprehension. It is considered as a higher order skills. A summary should be comprehensive and make the need to read the original text redundant. Select the relevant points and make notes on it.

Useful Points:

Make sure you understand the passage that you have to summarise.
Select the relevant points and make notes on it.
Write in your own language.
Avoid unnecessary details and repetition.
Robinson advocates the concept of survey, question, read, recall and review, which is known as SQ3R.

Survey:

The reader has to read the passage to understand the main idea of the text. It is for global understanding. The reader is not supposed to go into detail here.

Question:

A reader should begin to reflect on the passage at the end of the reading and ask as many question as possible for better comprehension.

Read:

The reader has to read the passage between the lines and identify the main points. This has to be an intensive reading process rather than the extensive one.

Recall:

We recall what we read.This is done at personal time and not in the classroom space. This is called rumination.

Review:

Review relates to sharing of our ideas with others to check our own comprehension.

Graphic Organizers:

A graphic organizer is also known as a knowledge map, concept map, and story map or concept diagram. The reader has to put his/
her understanding in his/her own style. The readers can put it in their own style. May be in the form of tables, grids, figures, maps..etc.

Model Questions for Practice:

1) Note making is a product of —–skill?
a) Listening b) Speaking
c) Reading d) Writing

2) Note taking is associated with which skill?
a) Writing b) Listening
c) Speaking d) Reading

3) Study skills are also called as…
a) Complimentary skills
b) Reading skills
c) Complementary skills
d) Both a & b

4) SQ3R stands for?
a) Survey, Quest, Read, Recall, Review
b) Survey, Quick, Read, Review, Recall
c) Survey, Question, Read, Remind, Recall
d) Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review

ANSWERS: 1-c, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d.

Following are General English model questions for practice for APTET, TSTET, and other TET examinations in India. The questions also useful for all other exams which have English as part of it. Answers are given at the end of the questions.

TET Practice Questions – English:

1. Choose the synonym for the word ‘Pardon’ from the alternatives given below.
1) Give 2) Punish 3) Forgive 4) Furnish

2. The negative feeling you get when you do something wrong is …….
A) Guilt B) Gilt 1) Only A 2) Only B
3) Either A or B 4) Both A & B

3. Choose the correct prefix to build the word. The meaning of word is given.
………… hold = look at or see something or somebody.
1) With 2) Up 3) Over 4) Be

4. Choose the word with correct spelling to fill in the blank. Ashoka became ……… after he had won the
war against Kalinga.
1) Magnanimous 2) Magananimus
3) Magnanems 4) Magnanemous

5. I can’t ……… his unusual behaviour in this matter.
1) account for 2) ask after
3) call for 4) call at

6. Fill in the blank with appropriate modal verb. One ……… abide by the laws.
1) may 2) could 3) need 4) should

7. Choose the correct article for the following. He is ……… European.
1) a 2) an 3) the 4) No article

8. Fill in the blank with suitable preposition. I prefer coffee ……… tea.
1) with 2) to 3) in 4) 1 & 2

9. ‘How’ or ‘What a’ followed by the remainder of the sentence is a/ an…..
1) Assertive sentence 2) Imperative sentence
3) Optative sentence 4) Exclamatory sentence

10. Hyderabad is the largest city in South India. (the positive degree is ………)
1) No other city in South India is as large as Hyderabad
2) Some cities in South India are as large as Hyderabad
3) Very few cities in South india is as big as Hyderabad
4) 1 & 3

11. Keep your mouth shut, ……… Choose the right question tag to complete the sentence.
1) do you? 2) didn’t you?
3) can’t you? 4) aren’t you?

12. Rani said to Ravi, ‘‘I will come to your house tomorrow’’. The correct reported speech for the above sentence is:
1) Rani told Ravi that she would come to his house the next day.
2) Rani said Ravi that she would come to his house the next day.
3) Rani told Ravi that she would come his house tomorrow.
4) 1 & 2

13. She will write a letter. Which of the following is the passive form for the above sentence?
1) A letter is written to her
2) A letter is written by her
3) A letter will be written by her
4) Both 1 & 3

14. Choose the verb form that can be used in ‘simple past tense’.
1) Talk 2) Talked 3) Is talking 4) Talking

15. She writes a letter.
The correct ‘Yes or No’ question of this sentence is.
1) Does she write a letter?
2) Did she write a letter?
3) Who writes a letter?
4) What does she write?

16. ‘The night was perfectly calm. The word ‘perfectly’ is a/ an
1) Verb 2) Noun 3) Adjective 4) Adverb

17. If I worked hard, I ……… in the examination. Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence.
1) would pass 2) will pass
3) would passed 4) Both 1 & 2

18. Although he is poor, he is honest. The underlined word is:
1) A co-ordinate conjunction
2) A subordinate conjunction
3) A phrase 4) Both 1 & 2

19. Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
1) I will come to your house yesterday.
2) I have been teaching since 2008.
3) I write a novel today.
4) Both 1 & 3

20. What is the tone of the given sentence? ‘Would you please give me your pen?’
1) Formal 2) Informal
3) Semi formal 4) None of these

Directions (Q.21-24): Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. The last half my life has been lived in one of those painted epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through out the world by orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone thought of the 19th century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.

21. The author feels sad about the later part of his life because,
1) He was nostalgic about his childhood
2) The world had not become prosperous
3) The author had not won any further victories
4) The world was painfully disturbed during that period of time

22. The victories of past:
1) Brought permanent peace and prosperity
2) Ended cruelty, tyranny and injustice
3) Proved to be temporary events
4) Filled men with a sense of pessimism

23. The word ‘definitive’ used in the passage means:
1) Defined 2) Final
3) Temporary 4) Incomplete

24. During the Victorian age people believed that:
1) Strife would increase
2) There would be unlimited freedom
3) Wars would be fought on an bigger scale
4) Peace would prevail and happiness would engulf the whole world

25. Learning a language is a
1) Gradual process 2) Fast process
3) Instant process 4) None

26. The unit of teaching in direct method is:
1) Word 2) Sentence 3) Phrase 4) None

27. ‘Role Play’ is an activity for promoting.
1) Speaking 2) Listening
3) Reading 4) Listening and speaking

28. According to the new pattern of education, evaluation is a/ an ………. process.
1) Bipolar 2) Tripolar
3) Unipolar 4) Automatic

29. A good text book of English should possess:
1) Reading material
2) Pictures and illustrations
3) Cultural content
4) All of the above

30. Which of the following is the base of remedial teaching?
1) Self-examination 2) Text book test
3) Diagnostic test 4) Aptitude test

Answers:

1-3
2-1
3-4
4-1
5-1
6-4
7-1
8-2
9-4
10-1
11-3
12-1
13-3
14-2
15-1
16-4
17-1
18-2
19-2
20-1
21-4
22-3
23-2
24-4
25-1
26-2
27-4
28-2
29-4
30-3.

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