Brennen Breeze: June 2020

Friday, June 26, 2020

18.Workshop on Cinema and Electronic Media

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

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17.Workshop on Reading and Reflecting on Texts

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16.Achievers 2017-18 Batch

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15-English Club 2017-18

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

The inauguration

Session on Communication Skills by the English Optional Students

Group work

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14. Farewell to 2016-18 batch

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

The Second Two Year BEd batch were given a farewell by the Third Two-Year BEd batch on the last working day 28 March 2018.

Here is a group photo taken along with the faculty of the college….

Here is the English Optional photo…

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13. Third Two Year Batch

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

Hi,

When I was posted in GBCTE, in September 2017, the third Two-Year BEd batch had just joined…The old auditorium was demolished and a new building was being constructed.

Thalassery Municipality was celebrating 150 years of its existence…

Shortage of space led to change of previously assigned class rooms. The First Year students were assigned a room in the New Block. There are six students. During holidays, two of them engages classes for ASAP and another for Plus Two.

We had been on a tour a couple of months ago. They are very active on WhatsApp too.

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12. Returned …Another batch leaving

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

Hello,

The decision of the Department of Collegiate Education to abandon the NCTE directive of BEd and MEd functioning as separate departments, resulted in shuffling of teachers. I was teaching Post Graduate students in Thiruvananthapuram but in September 2017, was transferred to teach BEd students in Govt. Brennen CTE, Thalassery.

Then, the Second batch of Two-Year BEd students were undergoing their Practice Teaching. When they returned in November 2017, they had to take the Third Semester examination. Here is the group with their former teacher,

Ms. Ambili.

In the fourth semester (Nov 2017 to March 2018) they did not have a single paper on English and so I never got to know them well… They were not active on WhatsApp too. Last week they shared a couple of snaps which I am posting now.

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11- Our WhatsApp study

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

Hello All,

This is just to convey a good news...

The Whatsapp study you engaged in during vacation (April-May) was rated as a Best Practice and Success Story by the State Institute of Educational Management and Administration, Government of Kerala

CONGRATULATIONS

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10.College Election

[Blog of the Department of English, Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery]

The election to the College Union was held on 30 March 2015, a day prior to commencement of vacation.

The English Optional trainees contested for five posts. A total of 115 votes were cast.

*Ms.Navya as Vice Chairman secured 45 votes.

*Ms.Lisina as General Secretary secured 52 votes.

*Ms Jyothi as Joint Secretary secured 42 votes

*Ms. Hitha as General Captain secured 28 votes

*Ms.Sinju as Magazine Editor secured 30 votes

The English Optional could win only one seat. Ms Lisina was declared elected as General Secretary.

Unlike in previous years when contestants from the English Optional fail to get elected to the College Union, this year they managed to secure a good number of votes and secure the key seat of General Secretary solely because of their participation in the Youth Empowerment Programme held on weekends, the Talents Day competition and the Kannur University Arts Festival which earned them many fans in the college.

Congratulations to Ms. Lisina

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9.Model Exam Paper IV and V

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Roll No. : ...................................

Name :......................................

Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery

BEd. Degree Model Examination, March 2015

ENGLISH (Optional)

Paper IV : Theoretical Base of Teaching English

Paper V : Pedagogic Analysis of English

Time: 3 Hours Max Marks :100

I. (1-15):Answer all Questions.

1. What is RP?

2. Expand SOS.

3. What is CCE?

4. What is Micro Teaching?

5. Mention any two uses of a Lesson Plan.

6. Why is English called a ‘link language’?

7. What are the objectives of teaching poems?

8. Mention any one advantage of group work.

9. How can the radio be used for learning English?

10. Mention any one disadvantage of the Direct Method.

11. Mention any two popular websites for learning English.

12. What is the advantage of the Communicative Approach?

13.Give two instances of using pictures for teaching English.

14. Mention any two problems learners of English face in classrooms in Kerala.

15. Frame a question to develop thinking skills based on any lesson in the SCERT Course Book. (15 x 2 = 30)

II. (16-27): Answer any ten of the following questions not exceeding one page each.

16. Choose any poem from the SCERT Course Book and suggest how to introduce it.

17. Suggest any two ways of using newspapers and magazines in the English classroom.

18. Read the following news item and prepare the following :

a. Very Short Answer Question.

b. One Paragraph Answer Question.

c. Suggest how the news item can be used for developing language skills.

Man hits girlfriend with ‘Anger Management Workbook’, she cuts him with boxcutter: Deputies

Sheelah Thompson and her boyfriend Tyler Ford were allegedly fighting about their relationship Monday night at their Spartanburg apartment when Ford rolled up the book and hit his girlfriend on the cheek. Ford said she responded by cutting him. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Tuesday, March 25 2014

19. Identify any two words likely to be difficult for learners in Standard VIII in the news item (Q.18) and suggest how you will teach them.

20. Suggest any two ways for improving speaking skills.

21. Do you think the plays of Shakespeare can be used for teaching English at the Secondary Level? Justify your answer.

22. What is the rationale for teaching grammar?

23. Suggest one way for teaching ‘Not only...but also’.

24. Explain Substitution Table with an example.

25. What are the uses of Supplementary Reader?

26. Give an example of an idiom and suggest how to teach it.

27. Write short notes on the Bilingual method.

(10 X 5 = 50)

III. (28-30): Answer any one of the following:

28. Write a Lesson Plan for the following Poem for teaching learners of Standard IX.

I have loved flowers that fade

I have loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made
With sweet unmemoried scents:
A honeymoon delight,
A joy of love at sight,
That ages in an hour
My song be like a flower!.
I have loved airs that die
Before their charm is writ
Along a liquid sky
Trembling to welcome it.
Notes, that with pulse of fire
Proclaim the spirit's desire,
Then die, and are nowhere
My song be like an air!.
Die, song, die like a breath,
And wither as a bloom;
Fear not a flowery death,
Dread not an airy tomb!
Fly with delight, fly hence!
'Twas thine love's tender sense
To feast; now on thy bier
Beauty shall shed a tear.-Robert Bridges

29. Write an essay on the use of aids for teaching English.

30. Choose any one method for teaching English and illustrate the role of the teacher, the learner, the nature of the material and the mode of assessment. (1X 20=20)

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8.Mid Semester Test

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Name:……………………………………………….

Government Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery

First Semester Mid Term Test (2014-15)

Optional Subject : English

Time : 45 minutes Max: 20 Marks

Note: All answers should be written in the Question Paper itself

A. Fill up the blanks: Each question (1 to 10) carries one mark

1. L₁ for inhabitants of Kerala is ……………………...

2.In India, English is used as a ……………………………. between different States.

3. The four main language skills are ...................... Speaking, Reading and Writing.

4. Giving examples and then leading pupils to the rule is the …………………………….. approach to teaching Grammar.

5. Cognitive, Affective and …………………are the three domains suggested by Benjamin Bloom.

6…………………………………is observable behavioural change.

7. Scanning is a strategy used in ………………………………….

8. Imitation, repetition and reinforcement is characteristic of ……………………………………

9. According to Cognitivism…………………………………….precedes language learning.

10. Expand SOS approach………………………………………………………………………….

[1 X 10 = 10 marks]

Answer the following questions in a sentence: Each question (11 to 15) carries two marks. Answers should be written behind this page.

11. What is the difference between Method and Approach?

12. What is the objective of teaching poems at the secondary level?

13.Mention any four objectives of teaching English at the secondary level.

14. Give an example of an idiom. Suggest how you will teach it.

15. Choose any two words that are likely to be difficult for learners in Standard VIII and suggest how to teach the words.

[2 X 5 = 10 marks]

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7.Snapshots of Field trip

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A field trip to Pazzhi Memorial, Kuruva Dweep and Pookot Lake was arranged in February 2015. It was an edutainment trip…and the trainees also had an opportunity to mingle with their peers.