N Praveenkumar

      The British ruled India by the divide and rule policy. They promoted religious, ethnic and cultural divisions among their colonies to keep them under control. Unfortunately some of these policies also entered in to the intellectual realm. These divisive ideas were used for interpreting the culture and history of India. Many Hindus have come to believe these ideas, even though a deeper examination reveals they may have no real objective or scientific basis    One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races – The lighter – skinned Aryans and the darker – skinned Dravidians – and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.   So the Hindu culture was in fact Dravidian and later the Aryans borrowed it. This idea has been used to turn the people of South India against the people of North India. The 19h century was the era of European imperialism. Many Europeans did ...

Specific guidelines for preparing questions A. Reading comprehension of textual passage (familiar passage    6 - 8 scores ) A passage can be taken from any of the units in the coursebook. (One or two paragraphs of about 100 - 120 words) This shall be followed by questions involving:           a.        Question(s) to test different levels of comprehension -- inferential, interpretative, and evaluative, etc.)           b.        Questions to test vocabulary acquisition -- antonyms, synonyms, one word substitution etc. can be included.           c.        Question to prepare different discourse types such as dialogues/ messages/ captions/ slogans/ diary entry/ letter/ notices can be included.        ...

SSLC EXAMINATION ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS TO THE QUESTION SETTERS 2010             CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GENERAL GUIDELINES SPECIFIC GUIDELINES ·       C Os TO BE CONSIDERED FOR TERM-END EVALUATION BLUE PRINT ·         MODEL QUESTION PAPER QUESTION-WISE ANALYSIS Preparation of   SSLC English question paper Guidelines Introduction      At secondary level discourse oriented pedagogy is followed in the English classrooms based on cognitive intractionist approach . A learner acquires the targeted language through interaction at various levels -- group discussions, pair work, and individual attempts based on the language inputs given in the coursebo...