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CTE 02 (July 2026 - January 2027) - ENGLISH

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
CTE-02: THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH
(ASSIGNMENT)
 2026-2027
Maximum Marks: 100
Answer all questions
 1. Write short notes on any two of the following: 
(a) Given and New information
(b) Suffixes and Prefixes
(c) Cohesion and Coherence
(d) Social dialects
 2. (a) Discuss the socio-cultural impact on the use of English. 
 (b) What is the role of Indian English in the Teaching-Learning context in India?
 3. What are the uses of skimming and scanning in effective reading comprehension?
 Substantiate your answer with 2 — 3 examples. 
 4. (a) Give five verbs that have irregular forms. Give all three forms. 
 (b) Transcribe the following words using phonetic symbols: 
 relieve, ask, fast, catch, surround.
 (c) Add a suffix to each of the following words to make a new word: 
 honest, sing, quick, happy, host.
 (d) Make negative questions of the following: 
 (i) Do you want to eat an apple?
 (ii) Is everyone coming for the party?
 (iii) Are you going to Australia?
 (iv) Is she your sister?
 (v) She was permitted to go abroad.
 5. (a) Identify the number of syllables in the following words and mark the primary
 stress: 
 fortunate, demand, believe, founder, deliver
 (b) Find the error, if any, and make necessary corrections to the following sentences: 
 (i) She laugh at everybody.
 (ii) Mala is very fond with reading mystery books.
 (iii) She has broken her watch yesterday.
 (iv) She lost bag last week.
 (v) Arun does not likes apples. 

 

CTE 02 (July 2025 - January 2026) - ENGLISH

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

CTE-02: THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH

(ASSIGNMENT)

Maximum Marks: 100

Answer all questions

1Say whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements briefly.

i All native speakers of English are mutually intelligible to each other.

11 Overt linguistic devices are not necessary to understand the meaning of a text.

iii English in India replaced Persian and other languages from the areas of education, administration, trade and business.

iv Like RP, Indian English has 11 pure vowels and 6 glides.

V Accent and dialect are terms that can be synonymously used.

vi There are about 2 billion non-native speakers of English spread over different parts of the world.

vii Skimming and scanning help organize writing efficiently.

English utterances normally carried new information in the predicate.

ix Semantics is an independent branch within language study, which has one

X Textual context or co-text is essential for meaningful discourse.

2a Write down the phonetic symbol for the vowel sounds represented by the underlined letters in the following words according to British R. P.

 

i. fellow

ii women

iii.brother

iv surface

v outside

iv A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

v Why haven’t they been invited.

4a Form questions about those parts of the statements which are in CAPITAL letters. 

i NEW DELHI is the capital of India.

 ii He goes for a walk EARLY IN THE MORNING.

iii John went for a film WITH HIS COUSIN.

iv He usually goes to the KALKAJI post-office.

v I would like some TOAST AND BUTTER for breakfast.

4b Supply question tags to the following statements: 

i Anju and Rajni are good friends.

ii You won’t forget to give my message.

iii Stop making that noise.

iv He is an athlete. v Rajeev and his friends hid my slippers. 4c Complete the following sentences with appropriate subordinate clauses and state what type of clause each is – i.e. noun, adjective, or adverb clause. 5 i It is clear that……. ii If we run ……

. iii My English teacher, who …….

iv The movie which …….

v I don’t know how …….

4d Fill in the blanks with a/an or the:

i This house is very nice. Has it got .............. garden?

ii It’s a beautiful day. Let’s sit in .............. garden.

iii There isn’t… ....... airport near where I live.

iv ..................... nearest airport is 70 kms away.

v I’m going away for ........... week in September.

5a Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions: 

Mother Teresa was born ………27th August, 1910……..Yugoslavia ...............the age of twelve she wanted to become a nun. When she was nineteen she arrived ……India. Some months later, she went… ......... Patna to do a course in nursing.

5b Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in brackets:

Last week, Rahul and Rashid ……….(go) for a film. They ……….not ……(book) the tickets in advance and ............ (have) to face great difficulties. The film, however, ……….(be) good and they ................... (be) glad to have seen it.

5c Write a short note on Question Formation in English, giving examples where necessary. 

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