ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD

(Early Childhood Education and Elementary Teacher Education Department)

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Course: Teaching of English (519)

Level: B.Ed.
Pass Marks: 40

Semester: Spring, 2014

Total Marks: 100

Assignment No. 1
(Units 14)
Q.1

What is the importance of English as a second language in Pakistan? Describe

the problems of students during the learning process of English language. (20)

Q.2

What are the objectives of teaching English at secondary level? Explain the
qualities of good English language teacher.
(20)

Q.3

Describe the characteristics of human speech? Give some suggestions for the
English language teachers.
(20)

Q.4

What do you understand by communicative approach for foreign language

teacher? Explain key concepts in the communication approach.
(20)

Q.5

What is meant by functional English? Why do we need to learn the

functional English? Explain briefly the general principles in teaching
listening comprehension.
(20)

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Assignment No. 2
(Units 59)
Q.1

Why should a teacher involve the students in teaching learning process?

Which techniques are most useful to improve classroom dynamics, explain
briefly. (20)

Q.2

What are the objectives of teaching prose? Mention the devices that may be
used in prose.
(20)

Q.3

Describe the significance of poetry in human life? Differentiate the

categories of rhyme and write down the devices which are used to create
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verbal music out of similar sounds.

(20)
Q.4

What are the qualities of good piece of writing? Explain some basic
principles and rules for good writing.
(20)

Q.5

How pictures are use as a significant teaching device? Write down the
important points which should be kept in mind for most effective use of
pictures.
(20)
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Assignment No. 3
(Units 1013)
Q.1

Describe the significant areas of classroom interaction that we shall be

aware of in planning our lessons and analyzing our teaching?
(20)

Q.2

What is the importance of lesson plan in teaching? Explain the steps of

lesson plan for letter writing.
(20)

Q.3

Describe the purpose of evaluation in teaching? Briefly mention major

techniques of evaluation generally used for evaluating the teaching of
English in Pakistan.
(20)

Q.4

How the study of parts of speech is of vital importance for understanding

the basic structure of language? Explain each part with an example.
(20)

Q.5

Define the word, analysis. Explain the analysis of different kinds of

sentences with examples.
(20)
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Assignment No. 4
(Units 1418)
Q.1

Define the conditional tenses and explain the basic types of conditional
tenses with examples.
(20)

Q.2

What is the importance of punctuation marks used in the paragraphs? Give

the detail of these punctuation marks in English sentences.
(20)

Q.3

What do you understand by figurative speech, explain the major forms of

language extensions in figurative speech?
(20)

Q.4

Read the poem, True Love, by William Shakespeare and explain the
rhyme scheme and main theme of the poem in your own words.
(20)
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Q.5

Write down the important points which will be helpful for introduction of
reading the text. Give the explanatory format used to prepare the students
for lesson listening and speaking.
(20)