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CTET · Paper I

CTET Paper I Language — English: Syllabus & Practice MCQs

Everything for the Language — English section of CTET Paper I (Primary, Classes I–V): the syllabus blueprint and 3 free practice MCQs with answers. Our bank holds 1,214 approved questions for this subject.

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Syllabus

Section I: Language Comprehension15 marks
  • Reading unseen passages — Two unseen prose/discourse passages in English; Literary / narrative / scientific passages; Comprehension, inference and analysis
  • Grammar and verbal ability — English grammar in context; Vocabulary and usage; Verbal ability
Section II: Pedagogy of Language Development15 marks
  • Learning and acquisition — Principles of language learning and acquisition; Difference: acquisition vs learning
  • Principles of language teaching — Approaches, methods and techniques; Communicative language teaching
  • Role of listening and speaking; function of language — How children use language to communicate; Language functions
  • Role of grammar in learning a language — Grammar for communication vs accuracy
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom — Language difficulties, errors and disorders; Multilingual classroom
  • Language skills; Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency — Listening, speaking, reading, writing (LSRW); Assessment of speaking, listening, reading, writing
  • Teaching-learning materials and remedial teaching — Textbook, multi-media materials; Multilingual resources of the classroom; Remedial teaching

Free sample questions

Three sample questions with answers. Full explanations — and the rest of the question bank — are free to read after you sign up.

Q1. Change to interrogative: 'You can swim.'

  1. Can you swim?
  2. You can swim?
  3. Do you can swim?
  4. Swim can you?
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Correct answer: A. Can you swim?

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Q2. Read the passage and answer. A rainbow is formed when sunlight passes through raindrops. Each drop bends, or refracts, the light and splits it into colours. The observer must stand with the sun behind them, which is why rainbows appear opposite the sun in the sky. Q: A rainbow appears when

  1. wind blows
  2. the moon rises
  3. clouds collide
  4. light is split by raindrops
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Correct answer: D. light is split by raindrops

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Q3. Read the passage and answer. When Gandhi arrived in Champaran in 1917, he did not make speeches. He listened to farmers, one by one, and recorded their testimony. Thousands of statements later, the government could no longer deny the grievances, and a committee was formed. Quiet persistence had succeeded where noise might have failed. Q: 'Grievances' means

  1. taxes
  2. crops
  3. complaints
  4. celebrations
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Correct answer: C. complaints

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