Question Bank for Paper VII at Waymade College of Education

Paper VII. Communication Skills & Personality Development for Teachers
Question Bank for the October Test

Dr. Sulabha Natraj

I Short Answer Questions.

What has been the biggest disappointment in your life? Describe it in about 75 words.
What are your strengths? How can you put them to use as a teacher? (75words)
“Learning is a result of what the learners do”. Explain.
Participation is the key to development .Comment.
How is the teacher the creator of the climate that prevails in the classroom?
Your class is going to celebrate the Independence Day. Prepare a set of 8-10 instructions to be given to the students on the previous day.
Reading is a complex process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning. Explain.
What is meant by ‘social context’ in reading?
How are language and culture associated?
“The whole art of teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Justify the significance of post prayer talks in developing communication skills of students.
“Teaching begins to grow boring when one has no sense of intellectual progress in one’s own work. That is the moment when the teacher he/herself ceases to learn from it” comment.
Explain the usefulness of the cloze technique.

II Essays/ Short notes

1. Cue cards: Significance and Illustration
2. The strip story technique: Importance in developing oral skills
3. Jig-saw-listening: Usefulness in developing skills of listening.
4. Illustration of any one Ice breaking exercise in detail.
a. Autograph Hunt b. Clap at 7, and its multiplications. c. Blind Man’s Buff. d. The Chinese whisper e. Find someone who…… f. Any other
5. Use of dialogues to develop conversational skills.
6. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
7. Describe characteristics of an effective reader.
8. Cloze reading / procedure “Read the passage silently and complete it in the best way you can. In each blank you may fill one phrase /a word. You may list more than one options if you wish to.
9. Discuss the importance of good reading habits in life.
10. Discuss the place of Reading Aloud to develop oral skills.