ESE -QUESTION BANK

 I. Answer the following questions not exceeding 350 words.

1. What are the expressions that Narayan found different from British English?

2. What is one’s vocabulary? Discuss the role of prefixes and suffixes of foreign language and english language in 

vocabulary building.(write at least 15 prefixes and suffixes with pertinent 

examples.)

3. Discuss the usage of “Articles” and “Prepositions” with suitable examples.

(write two examples for each rule or usage: no two students should write 

same examples )

4. Do you think reading is important? What are the different types of readings?

II.Write a paragraph in about 100 words about the topics below.

a. Smartphone 

b. Junkfood

What is précis writing? Elucidate précis writing tips you know.

Write a note on the essay Appro JRD?

Explain the differences between online education and internet based education.?

What is the message one can imbibe from the lesson ' GO KISS THE WORLD '

Write your resume and a cover letter for applying against notification for software developer.

Write a report on an event conducted at your college recently.

What made Abdul Kalam sir be interested in art and literature. Elucidate.

How do you think BLOG WRITING is helpful for improving written communication skills.?

Describe the different sections of a technical report.

B. Tech-I

English for Skill Enhancement

1. What has happened to English in America through the process of tasting, according to R K Narayan.

2. What is the importance of reading? Explain the strategies of reading?

3. Describe the techniques of précis writing?

4. Explain the essential features of a paragraph writing; topic sentence.

5. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles. If the blank space does not need an article, indicate this with an X.

1.--------peacock is in danger of extinction.

2.There is---------European and-----------Ethiopian among the tourists.

3.--------- Sanaz I Know  lives in Bhubaneswar.

4.Sumitha found --------wallet on her way home. she looks-----------wallet to the police station.

5.We must work to save-------tigers from becoming extinct.---------tigers is an important part of the ecosystem

6.Have you had-----breakfast?

7.there’s  no---------school today----------school is being use as-------polling station.

8.this is a painting of ---------western Ghats, and that is a photograph of------------Mahabaleshwar peak.

9. Mary will go to-------------school when she is three.

10.our library has three copies  of --------Mahabharata.

B.Insert articles wherever necessary.

1. There is book in my backpack. Book is very heavy.

2. Do you know where I left car key?

3.I enjoy reading detective novels, especially ones by famous author Conan Doyle.

4.french drink wine, while Americans drink beer.

5.Groups of MBA students from university of  Mumbai visited Harvard university in United states.

6. bible was first  book to be printed by Gutenberg in fifteenth century.

7.I am found  of music of Mozart. My grandfather owns antique piano.

8.Cloth is sold by metre. Metre of this fabric cost me moon.

9. Sun is at highest point in sky at noon.

10.After humans ,chimpanzee is most intelligent among animals.

   6. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.

E. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with suitable prepositions.

1. The guests are coming____ six o’clock _____the evening______ Thursday.

2. We will have completed the work______ tomorrow.

3. I lived_____ my parents______ Bengaluru______ four years.

4. She is______ leave_____ the end of the week.

5. I read your brother’s article______ this journal. It is_______ page 36.

6. The house is______ the park______ the right________ the school.

7. They go_____ the office______ train.

8. This dog belongs______ Sheila. She brought it______ Pune.

9. They were talking_______ us_______ their son.

10. He got_______ the bus, and walked_______ the theatre.

F. Rewrite the following sentences correctly.

1. Annie went in the bedroom to get her shawl.

2. He goes to the university by foot.

3. The doctor has been practicing here since many years.

4. They were shocked over the sight of the destruction.

5. Are you going for the party?

6. Please put the books back in the table.

7. He climbed across the wall and ran until the main road.

8. The burglar got in by the window besides the door.

9. The purse is below the pillow.

10. Don’t be afraid. You’re between friends here.

7. Say whether each underlined group of words in the sentences below is a phrase or a clause. If it is a clause, say whether it is an independent or dependent clause.

1) The hermit lived in a hut   made of wood.

2) He saw Nandini, and she waved to him.

3) The politicians do not know what the people want.

4) That my friends will succeed in their attempts, I have no doubt.

5) Milk is good for health. 

6) Their house is on convent road, where we played cricket as children.

7) The reason why he was dismissed is not know.

8) Walking down the road, I met Sukhbir.

9) 9. The Indian flag was hoisted on the building.

10) Ms Shah is an English teacher   who also teaches classical dance in her free time.

11) Birds of a feather flock together.

12) If he apologizes to me, I shall forgive him.

8.  Punctuate the following sentences correctly. Capitalize words where required.

1. i speak telugu and hindi better than english what about you

2. i need an assistant who can do the following input data write reports and                                                           complete tax forms

3. whos there oh its you

4. the ganges is considered a holy river, by the hindus its sources is the gangotri glacier in the himalayas  and it empties into the bay of Bengal in eastern india

5. i drove my rusty old green ambassador back home as it chugged slowly down the street its engine grunting and wheezing its wheels wobbling all the way I realized it was time to buy a new car

6. he got what he worked for a promotion 

7. it’s a lovely day today isn’t it I want to go to the park but im not sure if its open

8. you may be required to bring many things sleeping bags pans utensils and warm clothing

9. id forgotten that hed mentioned that its there

10. sultan was born at Gandhi memorial hospital. In Hyderabad hes an investment banker he lives in new York but he visits india often his sisters birthday is in January on new years 

day

9.  Complete the sentences using words that mean the same as those in brackets. note that there may be more than one correct answer.

1. She______________ (rarely) plays the violin now.

2. It was a __________ (hazardous) journey, and we were lucky to have escaped unharmed.

3. I had to be away from office because of ______(pressing) personal work.

4. The bus slowed down at the________ (junction).

5. We_________ (craved) for a cold drink after the long walk in the heat.

6. What a _______ (pitiless) man you are!

10.Fill in the blanks by adding a suitable affix to the words on the right (as instructed). In some cases, the original words may need to be modified to ensure grammatical correctness, etc.

1. He wants to ¬¬¬_________ me on face-book. PREFIX + friend

2. She _______ her strength; she lacks confidence. 

PREFIX + estimate  

3. Our team won the hockey ________.  Champion + suffix

4. It is ______ to kill endangered animals.  PREFIX + legal

5. She was given a _______ of sweets.   Hand + SUFFIX

6. You need a ________ of hard work and determination to succeed.      Combine + SUFFIX

7. Don’t be_____________.    Child + SUFFIX

11.  Fill in the blanks with suitable pronouns.

1. Shabnam and Sheila head the Marketing and the Legal departments respectively at Star Labs.

    Each runs____her___ team efficiently. Both are highly valued by__their___ company.

2. The members of the jury disagreed among__themselves_____ .

3. The United States is known for__its___ military strength. 

4. The frequent rains and many rivers flowing through Kerala make___it__ vulnerable to flooding.     Many volunteers offered__their___ help after the recent floods.

5. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare early in__his____ career.   its__protagonists are two young lovers whose deaths reconcile__their___ feuding families.    __it___was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during__his___ lifetime. 

6. Everyone should bring__his/her/thier___ own textbook to class.

7. You and I managed to complete__our___ work in time, but neither Rohit nor Ali submitted_his__ work.

8. All of the stolen jewellery was returned to__its__ owner, Mr.Lal. __he____put all of the jewels back in__their__ cases in___his___ vault.

Subject verb aggrement

12. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below using the appropriate from the verb on the right. Use the verbs in the tenses suggested.

For example: Bose speaks Telugu fluently. Speak simple present

1. There ________three crows on the tree branch.                   Be simple past            

2. The boy’s ______Table tennis.                                                        Play past continuous          

3. Stephen _______the table.                                                             Clear present perfect     

4. The planes______ the airport.                            Approach present continuous                                    

5. The children in this school____ yoga classes twice a week.    Have simple present           

6. Both the rise and curd ______delicious.                                    Be   simple present       

7. The rice and curd which the restaurant serves ____delicious.         Be simple present 

8. Rs 20,000 a month____ a good salary for a beginner.       Be simple present  

  9. Neither   Murali nor Tara____ the answer to this question.       Know simple present            

10. Either the boys or their parents’ ____the report cards.               Collect present prefect             

 Fill in the blanks with either BE or HAVE in the present tense in a form that agree with the subject of the sentences. 

1. Neither of my brother’s _____any children.

2. The third innings of the match _______begun.

3. Mathematics _____an interesting subject.

4. This is the only one in his collections of stories that ______worth reading.

5. My trousers _____been stolen.

6. The shop, with all of its goods _____insured.

7. Seven lakh rupees_____ a large sum of money.

8. Aditi is one of the girls who ____selected.

9.  What ____ the news?

10. The police _____arrested the culprit.

13 D. fill in the blanks in each set of sentences with a single homonym.

For example: A snake_______ him.                 Answer: bit

                        Add a_______ of salt

1. She wrote a new play.

               The children went to play in the park.

2. I was asked to pen a few lines of verse.

               The sheep are not in their pen.

                She uses a brush pen for calligraphy.

3. The spruce tree is found in temperature region.

                 Let’s spruce up the house before the guests arrive.

4. We didn’t realise the scale of the pandemic.

                 The symphony is in the scale of C major.

                 You need to scale the fish before cooking it.

5. Watch out for fraudulent call and e-mails.

                She got me an expensive watch for my birthday.

14. Fill in the balnks using the correct spellings of the words given in brakets.

1. Last year’s harvest___exceeded_(exceded) expectations (expectaitions). This year,however, the bad_weather_(whether) will result in a_disappoining_(disapointing)_yield_(yeild).

2. The people were__inoculated_(inocculated) against the_disease_(desease).

3. A good_calender_(calender) is_indispensable_(indispensible) for efficient management.

4. He copied from the work of _amateur_(amature) writer, but his_plagiarism_(plagerism) was soon discovered.

5. Their economy has grown;_ours_(our’s) has been__ comparatively_(comparativly)_stagnant__(stagnent).

6. Please save the_receipt_(reciept) of this_transaction_(tranizaction) for future_reference_(refrence).

15. Summarize the memories of SUDHAMURTHY in APPRO JRD.

16. Differentiate between skimming and scanning.

17. According to the essay what the issues that need to be tackled to improve online learning.

18. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with words chosen from the options given in brackets. Use a dictionary, if required.

1. There has been a huge______ in petrol prices. (rise, raise)

2. The suspect’s nervousness_______ that she knows about the missing money. (implies, infers)

3. Priya served for two years on the city_____ . (council, counsel, consul)

4. The new rules_______ much anger from the workers. (evoked, invoked)

5. Sailaja waited for the results with_____ breath. (bated, baited)

6. The amount of impurities in the water_____ the acceptable limit. (accedes, exceeds)

7. Please be______ with this information. (discreet, discrete)

8. Her designs use a limited_____ of colours . (palate, palette, pallet)

9. Use the________ to guide the horse along the path. (reigns, rains, reins)

10. Have you ever watched someone___ a sheep? (shear, sheer)

19. Write a brief descriptive passage on any one of the following.

1. A neighbor             2.A celebrity         3. A person you dislike

Write a brief descriptive passage on any one following.

1. A place of worship       2. Beautiful scenery

3. A museum or art gallery   4. A market place

20 write a letter to the registrar of your university to correct a mistake in the spelling of your name in your mark sheet while also requesting him to issue a new mark sheet to you.

21. Identify the errors in tenses in these sentences and correct them. 

1. When I was walking in the park, I was hearing a loud noise. 

2. Before I joined a US company, I completed an internship a loud noise. 

3. Joseph is being a lecturer in an engineering college. 

4. Yesterday the students talked loudly in the class while the teacher had dozed off. 

5. Iam singing songs during parties for livelihood. 

6. MNTE is constructing this bridge since 2008 and it’s not complete still. 

7. By the same next year my sister will be married. 

8. When the teacher reminded me about the time I already completed the exam. 

9. I am liking this new office cabin design. 

10. During the next year. We build our new house. 

11. Rita always hated night shifts but she had no other options. 

12. The earth is taking almost 24 hours for a single rotation on its own axis. 

13. I am waiting for the last two hours and I am really worried about getting home. 

14. After relocating to Kolkata from Hyderabad, my uncle still adjusts to the new city. 

15. We were going to market and bought fruits and vegetables. 

22. Read this passage and answer the questions that follow. 

Google Self-Driving Car is a project by the technology company Google. The project is the development of technology for driverless electric cars. The car uses software called Google Chauffeur, and is fitted with sensors through which vehicles around the car can be seen .As a result, the software can make quick search about every aspect of driving Further, the system works with a very high-definition and high-precision map of the area. This map includes even minute details like the height of the traffic lights. In fact, Sebastian Thrun, the lead engineer for the project, calls it a ‘perfect driving mechanism.’ 

Statistics show that many car accidents happen due to human error. Google Chauffeur minimizes the possibility of human error. Thereby reducing the rate of car accidents. In addition to this, several human factors are involved in the process of driving, like staying in the lane, maintaining the right body position, anticipating the traffic .etc. A driverless car would reduce our dependence on such things in addition to saving fuel. The prototype of this car was first unveiled on 22 December 2014, and the first cars were rolled out in 2017. 

1. What does the Google Self driving car project involve? 

2. What is Google Chauffeur? 

3. Why does Sebastian Thrun describe Google Chauffeur as the ‘perfect driving mechanism’? 

4. What are the human factors involved in driving? 

5. Find a word in the passage which means the same as the following: the first or a preliminary version or a device or a vehicle from which other forms are developed 

23 Read this passage and answer the questions that follow. 

The word ‘clone’ has Greek origins. It is derived from the Greek word klon, which refers to the technique of producing new plants using the twigs or buds of exisiting plants. The clone was used primarily for agricultural purposes. However, the term acquired an additional meaning when science fiction writer Aldous Huxley referred to a similar process in his famous book, A Brave New World wherein human embryos were split to produce human clones in large numbers. The process of duplicating DNA to create exact copies of animals, and human caught people’s imagination. 

The noted geneticist and popular science writer J.B.S. Haldane is created with using the word ‘clone’ to describe the possibility of creating exact copies of human beings . Interestingly, his speech given in 1963 was titled ‘Biological Possibilities for the Human Species of the Next Ten Thousand Years.’ 

Today, the term is used to refer to the process of producing genetically individuals. Widely used for selective assisted breeding, cloning involves processes which isolate and create copies of DNA fragments. These are used to create an exact genetic copy of an animal from a single cell. 

It has been used to create copies of sheep, cows and cats. 

1. What does the Greek word klon mean? 

2. List out any two details about J.B.S.Haldane. 

3. What was the title of the speech given by Haldane in 1963? 

4. For which purpose is cloning widely being used today? 

5. Find a word in the passage which means the same as the following: similar in every detail

24. Experiment the following words in sentences. 

A] Bona fide 

B] De facto 

C] et cetera [etc] 

D] impromptu 

E] quid pro quo 

F] modus operandi 

G] status quo 

H] faux pax 

I] en masse 

J] bon appétit 

K] chauffeur 

L] déjà vu 

M] buffet 

N] Zucchini 

O] vendetta 

P] inferno 

Q] Anime 

R]emoji 

S] ninja 

25. Describe the following. 

a]Your smart phone. 

b] My first day in the college. 

c] The incident which made changes to my views about parents/ A friend/ A teacher. 

D] Characteristics of good friends.