Teaching Prose, Poetry, Grammar & Composition — GK Questions with Answers

1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of prose?
   1. Prose develops the cognitive and affective abilities of students
   2. Prose transmits human knowledge, experiences and ideas to future generations
   3. Prose includes essays, novels, biographies and drama
   4. Prose has rhythm and sounds like poetry
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   Answer: (D) Prose has rhythm and sounds like poetry

   Rhythm and sound patterns belong to poetry — that is what separates the two forms.

2. The main purpose of teaching poetry in the junior classes is to enable students to —
   1. become aware of the poet and his works
   2. gain information about the historical context of the poem
   3. enjoy the poem
   4. give their opinion about the poem
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   Answer: (C) enjoy the poem

   In junior classes the aim is simply enjoyment — rhythm, sound and story.

3. What is the primary focus of resource materials for senior secondary students in the teaching of poetry?
   1. Developing students’ poetry analysis skills
   2. Helping students write their own poems
   3. Teaching students to memorize poems
   4. Learning grammatical structures through poetry
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   Answer: (A) Developing students’ poetry analysis skills

   At senior level the focus moves to analysis — form, imagery and devices.

4. Teaching of English poetry —
   1. is necessary only at primary and middle school level
   2. should not be continued at higher classes as it is a waste of time
   3. has immense value at senior secondary level as it develops the emotional, imaginative and aesthetic side of students
   4. has only a utilitarian purpose
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   Answer: (C) has immense value at senior secondary level as it develops the emotional, imaginative and aesthetic side of students

   Poetry reaches a side of the personality no other subject reaches.

5. While teaching a prose piece, why should a teacher ask students to read the text silently?
   1. To maintain discipline in the class
   2. To help weaker students while others are engaged
   3. To enable learners to memorize important points
   4. To enable the learners to comprehend the text on their own
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   Answer: (D) To enable the learners to comprehend the text on their own

   Silent reading exists for comprehension.

6. In a grammar lesson, the inductive method means —
   1. the rule is given first and then examples
   2. examples are given first and the pupils work out the rule
   3. the rule is translated into the mother tongue
   4. the rule is memorised by heart
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   Answer: (B) examples are given first and the pupils work out the rule

   Induction moves from examples to the rule, and is better retained.

7. Which method of teaching grammar is associated with the Grammar-Translation Method?
   1. Inductive
   2. Deductive
   3. Situational
   4. Communicative
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   Answer: (B) Deductive

   GTM states the rule first — the deductive order.

8. Which of the following does NOT bring out the importance of oral composition?
   1. It develops spontaneity of speech among the students
   2. It creates interest among students
   3. It teaches good spoken English
   4. It limits the thoughts of the students
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   Answer: (D) It limits the thoughts of the students

   Oral composition frees expression rather than limiting it.

9. A teacher gives an outline of a story and asks students to develop it. This is —
   1. guided writing
   2. controlled writing
   3. free writing
   4. creative writing
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   Answer: (A) guided writing

   Content is supplied, language is the pupil’s — guided writing.

10. Which kind of composition enables students to make up their own ideas?
    1. Literary composition
    2. Oral composition
    3. Free composition
    4. Controlled composition
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    Answer: (C) Free composition

    Free composition leaves both ideas and language to the pupil.

11. Which is NOT an aim of creative writing?
    1. To encourage self-expression
    2. To teach correct forms of writing
    3. To develop a sense of achievement
    4. To enable students to make good use of their free time
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    Answer: (D) To enable students to make good use of their free time

    Occupying free time is not a teaching aim.

12. In a prose lesson, which comes first?
    1. Loud reading by pupils
    2. Model reading by the teacher
    3. Home assignment
    4. Written exercises
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    Answer: (B) Model reading by the teacher

    The class first hears the passage read properly by the teacher.

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