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FIRST SEMESTER B.A./B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2019
(CBCSS-UG)
Connon English
ENG 1A 01-TRANSACTIONS ESSENTIAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
(2019
Admissions)
Time: Two Hours Part I (Speaking Skills) Maximum: 60 Marks
I. Read the following questions and do
as directed. All questions can be answered. (Ceiling 201 Each question carries
2 marks:
1. You want to have a tea right now. How
will you suggest this to your friends?
2 You forgot to inform your friend that you
won't be coming for the cinema. Express your regret
using should have.
3 Sure but later is a reply to a telephone
call. Frame a suitable question used in telephonic English for this reply.
4. Rearrange the given jumbled sentence to
get the correct expression used for interruption. add /given I more you have
point to /May/just/ one /1/ what
5. Identify the vowel sounds in Moon and
Toil and categorise them as monophthong or diphthong.
6. Identify the sounds of the underlined
letters in Chew and Thish and transcribe them.
7. We had gone to the movies last night.
Rewrite the sentence correctly. Justify your corrections.
8. She's cooking in the kitchen. Frame a
"Wh" question for this sentence. 9 We should read another book by
E.B. White. Identify the verb and helping verb in the sentence.
10. The local kids hang out at the mall.
Identify the phrasal verb in the sentence and write its meaning.
11. The tornado caused a lot of damage on
all parts of the region. Write the idiomatic expression for the underlined
words.
12 Dad seemed more disappointed than angry.
Write the meaning of the underlined word in the given sentence.
Turn over
II. Read the following questions and do
as directed. All questions can be answered. (Ceiling 30). E question carries 5
marks:
21. Read and rewrite
- Speak slowly to Ana and Petra because they doesn't speak English very well.
- In 1975, after seven years in prison, Carson had been leaving and started a new life.
13 Prepare a short telephonic conversation
in which phrases like I'm afraid, hang on, speak etc. occur.
14 Elucidate the way in which the given
words differ in articulation and meaning. Support you answers with examples.
- Export (N) & Export (V)
- Conflict (N) & Conflict (V)
15 Each given sentence has one word
missing. Write it in and justify your answer.
- Deepu not remember faces very well.
- The teachers know her ?
16 Reorder the given sentences and identify
the tense in them.
- those/young/come/from/labourers / Bengal Jack/finish/will/work/tomorrow / his
17 Choose one phrasal verb and use it in
two sentences of yours. Sort out/Put up with
18 Choose one idiom and use it in two
sentences of yours.
- Barking up the wrong tree/Bum the candle at both ends. 19 The sentences below consist of some grammatical mistakes. Identify the mistakes them correctly. Justify your corrections.
III. Read the following questions and
answer any one of the following. (1 x 10 = 10)
20 Make up a reasonably long dialogue which
contains expressions used for polite requests/ persuations/suggestions and
their responses : Speakers Anumol and Sarath
Situation For class tour, Anumol: to go to
Bangalore and Sarath wants to go to Goa.
21 Read the text and do as directed.
What true education should do
1 When most people think of the word
education, they think of people as a sort of animate sausage to casing. Into
this casing, the teachers are supposed to stuff education. But genuine
education is not inserting the stuffing of information into a person, but
rather eliciting knowledge from him/her; it is the drawing out of what is in
the mind.
2 "The most important part of
education" wrote William Ernest Hocking," is this instruction of a
person in what he/she has inside him/her. Socrates never said "I know,
learn from me". He said, rather looking into your own selves and find the
spark of truth that god has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle
to a flame. So many of the discussions and controversies about the content of
education are futile and inconclusive because they are with what should
"go into the student rather than with what should be taken out, and how
this can best be done.
3 Education, to have any meaning beyond the
purpose of creating well informed dunces must elicit from the pupil what is
latent in every human being-the rules of reason, the inner knowledge of what is
proper for men to be and do, the ability to sift evidence and come to
conclusions that can generally be assented by all open minds and warn hearts.
Pupils are more like oysters and sausages. The job of teaching is not to stuff
them and then seal up, but to help them open and reveal the riches within.
There are pearls in each of us, if only we knew how to cultivate them with
ardour and persistence.
Read the following sentences and choose the
correct option (2 x 1 = 2)
(a) Genuine education means stuffing of
information into a person. (False/True)
(b) Socrates asked us to find the flame within
and kindle it. (False/True)
Re-read the text and guess the meaning
of the words in bold from the context. Then choose the right synonym or
antonym. (2
x 1 = 2)
(c) "But genuine education is not
inserting the stuffing of information into a person." Which among the
following is closest in meaning to the italicized word:
(a) Natural. (b) Real.
(c) Modern. (d) None of
these.
(d) "So many of the discussions and
controversies about the content of education are futile." Which among the
following is opposite in meaning to the italicized word:
(a) Useful. (b)
Effective.
(c) Useless. (d)
Positive.
Answer the following questions in
complete sentences. The answers need not be directly stated in the passage. (3x2=6)
(e) What is the purpose of genuine
education?
(f) What is the Purpose of education?
(g) Why is it said that pupils are more
like oysters?
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