Q91
Why did Tarawati’s husband ‘berate’ her ?
- (1) For not treating their daughter well
- (2) For constantly quarrelling with him
- (3) For picking up fights with neighbours
- (4) For not doing the household work properly
CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1 English Language Question Paper with Answer Key
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : (91 - 99)
Soon some idea struck her and she went to the window and hollered, ‘Roopa! Roopa!’ After calling out for Roopa, she had a look at the things that she had brought for her. Roopa had to sit for her home science examination the next day and Tarawati had collected things like some kitchen items, a bucket, a mug and a stool that Roopa required for the practical examination.
While looking at the things that she had collected for Roopa, Tarawati recalled her husband who had died a few years ago. She remembered him berating her for not treating Roopa well. ‘Roopa’s mother! Do not think only sons deserve all love and care and not daughters’. I’m determined to give Roopa good education so that she leads a happy and meaningful life. You are not educated yourself. That’s probably why you don’t want her to be educated. This is not fair on your part. You must change your views and let her grow and flower into a happy, confident individual.’
Thinking of her husband’s admonition on this account, Tarawati felt emotional. The fact of the matter was that Roopa’s parents differed on Roopa’s upbringing and fought with each other on the issue. The fight continued for days together and often it was Roopa who intervened to broker peace between them. On his death-bed too, Roopa’s father had cried and pleaded with her to treat Roopa in a nice manner. Hugging Roopa, he had told Tarawati, ‘Take care of Roopa. Give her good education and let her decide the course of her life herself.’ While recalling the interaction, tears rolled down Tarawati’s eyes.
Meanwhile, the evening shadows were getting darker. Tarawati was exhausted and had a headache too. She looked at her dust-laden feet and then around the room. In order to bring some semblance of order, she forced herself to get up and get going. Then she called her daughter again, Roopa! Roopa!’.
Q92
Tarawati’s emotional state towards her daughter could be described as __________.
- (1) loving
- (2) indifferent
- (3) ambivalent
- (4) hostile
Q93
What social issue is highlighted in the passage ?
- (1) caste
- (2) gender
- (3) communalism
- (4) poverty
Q94
Choose the word nearest in meaning to ‘holler’.
- (1) shout
- (2) request
- (3) talk
- (4) quarrel
Q95
‘Things were lying at sixes and sevens ...’ means .....
- (1) in proper order
- (2) in a disorderly state
- (3) being old and worn-out
- (4) being dirty and unwashed
Q96
Which of the following is opposite in meaning to ‘admonition’ ?
- (1) flattery
- (2) praise
- (3) shriek
- (4) rebuke
Q97
The next day, Roopa had to appear in her examination in __________.
- (1) Home Science
- (2) Chemistry
- (3) Biology
- (4) English
Q98
Why was Tarawati not keen to get Roopa educated ?
- (1) Because she did not know the value of good education
- (2) Because she did not want to spend money on Roopa’s education
- (3) Because she did not want Roopa to go out
- (4) Because she did not love her
Q99
‘. . . to broker peace between them.’
Identify the Part of Speech of the underlined expression.
- (1) Adjective
- (2) Preposition
- (3) Verb
- (4) Noun
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : (100-105)
Put away the road maps now.
To go there,
you do not need
helicopters any more;
wherever there is hunger,
there Kalahandi is.
The god of rain
turned away his face.
There was not one green leaf
left on the trees for supper.
The whole village a graveyard.
Cracked ground,
drab river sand.
All the plans failed;
the poverty line
receded further.
Q100
‘The god of rain/turned away his face’. Which figure of speech is used here ?
- (1) alliteration
- (2) personification
- (3) oxymoron
- (4) transferred epithet
Q101
What does ‘the poverty line/receded further’ signify ?
- (1) That poverty is of no consequence in the present-day world
- (2) That poverty is increasing
- (3) That poverty is a thing of the past
- (4) That poverty is going down
Q102
The village becoming a graveyard is a metaphor that :
- (1) people are migrating to other cities.
- (2) more graveyards are being planned.
- (3) people are living in graveyards.
- (4) people are dying in large numbers.
Q103
Kalahandi as described in the poem stands for :
- (1) prosperity
- (2) hunger
- (3) natural disasters
- (4) development
Q104
What natural calamity is the poet talking about ?
- (1) drought
- (2) earthquake
- (3) landslide
- (4) floods
Q105
What is the dominant ‘mood’ of the poem ?
- (1) sorrow
- (2) surprise
- (3) anger
- (4) relief
Q106
Assertion (A) : Learning experiences in the classroom are deeply connected to children’s lives and their contexts.
Reason (R) : Learning experiences are designed to build on children’s previous understanding.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
- (1) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- (2) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- (3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- (4) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Q107
Which of the following is NOT true of learning a language ?
- (1) Language learning takes time.
- (2) Language learning is meaning making.
- (3) Grammar learning is essential for learning a language.
- (4) All learners can learn a language easily if sufficient engagement with language is given.
Q108
To assess whether students can use functional exponents for buying something in a shop, it would be appropriate for students to ;
- (1) Write about their food preferences.
- (2) Read a short story between shopkeeper and customers.
- (3) Draw the scene between shopkeeper and customers.
- (4) Write short dialogue between shopkeeper and customers.
Q109
A teacher found some of the aspects of language learning e.g. reading with understanding a text on scientific concepts. She decided to pick students who find it difficult on the particular aspects. She took separate session for them to support them read and understand such text. What is this practice known as ?
- (1) Higher Order Skills.
- (2) Thinking Skills.
- (3) Feedback Teaching.
- (4) Remedial Teaching.
Q110
Which one of the following is NOT a sub skill of reading ?
- (1) Deducing the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items.
- (2) Scanning to locate specifically required information.
- (3) Knowing the spelling of each word.
- (4) Recognizing vocabulary, picking out key words.
Q111
Assertion (A) : A student portfolio is a purposeful collection of pieces of student work.
Reason (R) : The Portfolio can encourage students to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
- (1) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- (2) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- (3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- (4) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Q112
To help students to develop their vocabulary, a teacher is using the material that contains language that has been made easier for students and is based on authentic material. This material is :
- (1) Role-cards.
- (2) Bilingual dictionaries.
- (3) Graded readers.
- (4) Newspaper.
Q113
A language teacher gives students a questionnaire in order to find out more about their learning styles and preferences. Here the teacher is in the role of a :
- (1) Planner.
- (2) Provider of expert information.
- (3) Diagnostician.
- (4) Manager.
Q114
A teacher of class I asks her learners to scribble, draw and write whatever children want, on the walls. What does she encourage here ?
- (1) joy and humour.
- (2) writing skill development.
- (3) initiation to writing the letters of alphabets.
- (4) emergent literacy development.
Q115
Which one of the following is incorrect about the pictures ?
Pictures and illustration in books :
- (1) retain the interest of children.
- (2) to give them opportunity to draw such pictures.
- (3) help to present language in unfamiliar and memorable contexts.
- (4) support content.
Q116
Which of the following statement related to the young learners is true ?
- (1) young learners find it hard to understand abstract concepts.
- (2) young learners partially understand the abstract concepts.
- (3) young learners get motivated by abstract concepts.
- (4) young learners understand the abstract concepts.
Q117
What steps would you take as a teacher to facilitate students’ interaction in your class ?
(a) Encourage the students to ask more questions.
(b) Conduct pair and group work and invite opinion from the students.
(c) Make them read the text loudly and respond individually so that individual learning takes place.
(d) Read the dialogues to each other to interact and ask questions to each other.
- (1) (b), (c), (d) are correct
- (2) (a), (b), (d) are correct
- (3) (a), (c), (d) are correct
- (4) (a), (b), (c) are correct
Q118
Cognitive theory of language development, supports that language is :
- (1) learnt through reward and punishment.
- (2) learnt through interaction with in the society.
- (3) dependent on child’s understanding of the concept before verbalizing it.
- (4) innate capacity of an individual.
Q119
Assertion (A) : Language forms a critical aspect of cultural awareness and expression, which is considered among the major competencies to develop in children.
Reason (R) : The competencies of cultural awareness and expression provide children with a sense of identity, belongingness, as well as an appreciation of other cultures and identities.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- (1) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- (2) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- (3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- (4) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Q120
Textbooks contain stories, poems, plays and other forms of writing by writers. We need to select such materials because they are __________.
- (1) written with the purpose to be used in textbooks
- (2) written by well known writers
- (3) they are in simple language
- (4) authentic and are in natural language
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : (121-128)
At that moment, we heard a big bang from outside, as if a bomb had exploded! We felt as if we were being thrown violently to the ground. From the shadow of a tree nearby, someone emerged and walked slowly towards the shop to stand before us. Everything had happened in the fraction of a second and seeing his face now, my throat went suddenly dry.
He was a young boy. Across his cheek ran a deep gash, from eye to lip made by a bullet or a sharp knife. There was blood and pus in it. The flesh under his lip looked as if it had been ripped open and we could see his teeth in the quavering light.
I went to the old woman and took her hand in mine, gripping it tightly. We were both shivering. The boy was wearing black jeans and a khaki jacket. And what was that in his hand ? A revolver ? Even in the smoky light of the kerosene lamp, the barrel shone. The old woman burst into a hysterical cry.
‘Oh my Kanbap, my son! I told your father a thousand times to bring you from the railway track. Oh my son, what has happened to you ? Why are you bleeding like this ?’
Suddenly the boy’s eyes fell on the girl sitting in the corner and trembling with fear. He sped like a bullet towards the girl and grabbing her hair, rained blows and kicks on her stomach, shouting, ‘I will smash your womb! I will kill the bastard child of that soldier you are carrying... Making love with a soldier, dirty bitch! Phooh! Phooh!
Q121
State which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) The narrator offered sympathy to the old woman.
(B) The boy attacked his sister in a violent manner.
- (1) Both (A) and (B) are False.
- (2) (A) is True but (B) is False.
- (3) (B) is True but (A) is False.
- (4) Both (A) and (B) are True.
Q122
What was the relationship of the tea-seller’s family with the boy ? He was their .....
- (1) relative
- (2) neighbour
- (3) friend
- (4) son
Q123
State which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) The boy was dressed in casual wear.
(B) On seeing his sister, the boy attacked her in rage.
- (1) Both (A) and (B) are False.
- (2) (A) is True but (B) is False.
- (3) (B) is True but (A) is False.
- (4) Both (A) and (B) are True.
Q124
What kind of sentence is the following ?
And what was that in his hand ?
- (1) Interrogative
- (2) Exclamatory
- (3) Negative
- (4) Assertive
Q125
‘He sped like a bullet towards the girl.’
The underlined word is a/an __________.
- (1) Adjective
- (2) Preposition
- (3) Conjunction
- (4) Noun
Q126
How did the people present react to the big sound ?
- (1) They were shocked beyond belief.
- (2) They were indifferent to it.
- (3) They were confused.
- (4) They maintained their composure.
Q127
The youngman who appeared on the scene .....
- (1) was happy and smiling.
- (2) seemed full of curiosity.
- (3) was grievously wounded.
- (4) looked hale and hearty.
Q128
What does the underlined word mean in the expression; ... ‘in the quavering light’ ?
- (1) moving
- (2) fluctuating
- (3) running
- (4) hanging
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : (129-135)
I have told you already about the formation of tribes. When agriculture came, and there was some division of work or labour, it became necessary for some person in the tribe to organise the work. Even before this, the tribes wanted someone to lead them to battle against another tribe. The leader was usually the oldest man in the group. He was called, or rather we call him now, the patriarch. As the oldest, he was supposed to be the most experienced and to have the most knowledge. This patriarch was not very different from the other members of the tribe. He worked with the others, and all the food that was produced was divided between all the members of the tribe. Everything belonged to the tribe. It was not like we have now, each person having his separate house and money and many other things. Whatever a man earned was divided up as it all belonged to the tribe. The patriarch or the organiser of the tribe did this dividing.
But changes came in slowly. There were new kinds of work, especially on account of agriculture, and the patriarch had to spend most of his time in organising and seeing that work was properly done by all the members of the tribe. Little by little, the patriarch gave up doing the ordinary work or labour of the people. He thus became quite different from the rest of the people. We see now another kind of division of work or labour : the patriarch doing the organizing and ordering people about, and the other people working in the fields and hunting and going to battle, and obeying the orders of their leader, the patriarch. If there was a war or fight between two tribes, the patriarch became even more powerful, for in wartime it was not possible to fight well without a leader. So the patriarch became very powerful.
Q129
Identify the Part of Speech of the underlined word :
‘The tribe wanted someone to lead them ...’
- (1) Pronoun
- (2) Adjective
- (3) Preposition
- (4) Noun
Q130
In situations of war between tribes, the patriarch .....
- (1) became more powerful.
- (2) was ignored.
- (3) gave up his leadership role.
- (4) became less powerful.
Q131
State which of the following is True/False.
(A) With new kinds of work coming up, the patriarch functioned like an organiser.
(B) The patriarch led his tribe to battle.
- (1) Both (A) and (B) are False.
- (2) (A) is True but (B) is False.
- (3) (B) is True but (A) is False.
- (4) Both (A) and (B) are True.
Q132
Identify the tense of the given expression :
‘Whatever a man earned was divided up ...’
- (1) Present Perfect
- (2) Past Tense
- (3) Past Perfect
- (4) Present Tense
Q133
Who was selected as the leader of the tribe ?
- (1) the most powerful
- (2) the most domineering
- (3) the humblest
- (4) the oldest and the wisest
Q134
How was food divided in the tribe ?
- (1) The strong got more while the weak got less.
- (2) The patriarch got the lion’s share.
- (3) It was divided unequally along gender lives.
- (4) It was divided equally among all members.
Q135
Choose the word nearest in meaning to ‘patriarch’ :
- (1) father-figure
- (2) relative
- (3) neighbour
- (4) friend
Q136
A teacher finds a video to fit into the topic of the unit and plans for a pair work activity around this video. The objective of this pair work activity is to encourage students to :
- (1) make them work at a faster pace together.
- (2) work independently of the teacher.
- (3) develop language awareness.
- (4) assess their own work.
Q137
A collection of short stories and other narratives are prescribed as supplementary reader for language learning. What is the major purpose of the supplementary reader ?
- (1) To promote intensive reading.
- (2) To promote moral learning.
- (3) To promote extensive reading.
- (4) To promote multilingualism.
Q138
Assertion (A) : Remedial teaching is an integral part of the teaching-learning process.
Reason (R) : Remedial teaching is to teach again, not necessarily in the same manner the language items not properly learnt.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
- (1) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- (2) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- (3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- (4) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Q139
Retelling of a story read by a student in his/her own words helps in assessing :
- (1) Fluency
- (2) Comprehension
- (3) Memory
- (4) Accuracy
Q140
Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching ?
- (1) Learner’s first language plays an important role in learning.
- (2) Language teaching should have a focus in communicative activities.
- (3) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than to speech.
- (4) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.
Q141
Which among these is the primary responsibility of a language teacher ?
- (1) Selecting the content for teaching.
- (2) Grouping learners into different classes.
- (3) Instructing the learners.
- (4) Identifying learner’s communicative needs.
Q142
Children at the foundational stage are most comfortable and learn best in :
- (1) the official language.
- (2) their home language.
- (3) English medium.
- (4) the medium of instruction.
Q143
Which one of the following is incorrect about storytelling for children ?
Listening to stories, help children to :
- (1) learn sentence structure.
- (2) develop problem-solving skills.
- (3) learn new moral values to be followed in life.
- (4) learn new words and expand their vocabulary.
Q144
A teacher in a language task makes a mixed ability group of students. This mixed ability group is made to :
- (1) give space to dominate students to express freely.
- (2) encourage students to help one another.
- (3) share teacher’s load, as the teacher cannot give attention to all.
- (4) identify weaker students.
Q145
Children should be exposed to and immersed in __________.
- (1) two written languages from an early age
- (2) multiple oral languages from an early age
- (3) multiple written languages from an early age
- (4) two oral languages from an early age
Q146
Assertion (A) : Drawing is considered to be the beginning of writing in the early literacy.
Reason (R) : Pictures are symbols and carry meaning.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- (1) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- (2) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- (3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- (4) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Q147
The ‘minimal pair’ drill can be an effective strategy to improve :
- (1) Vocabulary
- (2) Pronunciation
- (3) Reading comprehension
- (4) Grammar
Q148
Which of the following is not related to the Behaviourist theory of language acquisition ?
- (1) Empty vessel.
- (2) Trial and error.
- (3) Social interaction.
- (4) Operant conditioning.
Q149
A teacher in class V gave students a task to write a story. While students write a story, the teacher walks round the class helping students who make errors or ask new words. Here the teacher is in the role of a :
- (1) Planner
- (2) Facilitator
- (3) Diagnostician
- (4) Manager
Q150
Assertion (A) : Reading is more than just pronouncing a word right.
Reason (R) : Reading is decoding.
Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- (1) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- (2) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- (3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- (4) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).