CTET English Flashcards

Which of the following is the BEST example of a 'communicative language teaching' (CLT) activity?

Answer: Students role-play booking a hotel room in English

CLT focuses on meaningful, real-world communication; role-playing a hotel booking is an authentic communicative task with a real purpose.

A teacher uses a 'KWL chart' before a reading lesson. What does the 'W' column stand for?

Answer: What we Want to know

In a KWL chart, K = What I Know, W = What I Want to know, and L = What I Learned; the W column sets a purpose for reading.

Identify the grammatically incorrect sentence:

Answer: Every boy and girl were given a prize.

'Every boy and girl' takes a singular verb; the correct sentence is 'Every boy and girl was given a prize.'

Which type of reading involves moving eyes quickly across a text to find a specific piece of information?

Answer: Scanning

Scanning is the rapid reading strategy used to locate a specific fact, date, name, or keyword within a text.

In the context of the CTET English paper, 'formative assessment' is best described as:

Answer: Ongoing assessment used to monitor and improve learning during instruction

Formative assessment is continuous and diagnostic, used during the instructional process to adjust teaching and support student learning.

What is 'code-switching' in a multilingual classroom?

Answer: A student alternating between two or more languages within a conversation

Code-switching refers to a bilingual or multilingual speaker's practice of alternating between two or more languages in a single conversation.

Which of the following figures of speech gives human qualities to non-human things?

Answer: Personification

Personification attributes human characteristics, emotions, or actions to animals, objects, or abstract concepts.