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SECTION VI.

Write full notes of a lesson on one of the following

subjects:

(a) Irregular comparison of adjectives.

(b) The terminations of abstract nouns.
(c) Auxiliary verbs.

SECTION VII.

Write a letter as to a friend in a distant country

descriptive of

(a) The severity of the late winter.

or (b) Some recent invention.

or (c) Some public institution.

or (d) Your home enjoyments.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

Draw a map of

GEOGRAPHY.

SECTION I.

(a) the Western side of Great Britain, to include the basins of the principal rivers from the Clyde on the North to the Severn on the South.

Or (b) the Coast of Africa, South of the Equator. Or (c) Canada, showing the physical features only.

SECTION II.

1. Define the geographical terms employed in the following description, and give examples of each from the continent described.

"The surface of Europe is diversified by mountains, plains, plateaux and valleys; it lies almost wholly within the North temperate zone; its coast is deeply penetrated by inland seas and numerous gulfs."

2. Write a short explanation of the following:The loss of a day in travelling round the globe eastwards; the length of a polar day; the equality of day and night at the Equinoxes; and the greatest height of the sun in

summer.

SECTION III.

Describe a coasting voyage from-

(a) Amsterdam to Bordeaux,

Or (b) Bordeaux to Genoa,

Or (c) Genoa to Constantinople,

noting the mouths of the rivers, the principal capes, and the historical incidents suggested by the journey.

SECTION IV.

Enumerate six of the most important of the British Colonies and give their seats of government and their

native races.

Give also' a brief account of the colonization of Australia from its settlement to the present time.

SECTION V.

Name the chief rivers of Hindustan, the mountain ranges of Africa, and the principal commercial cities of North America.

HISTORY.

SECTION I

Arrange in chronological order and give the dates of as many as you can of the following:-The accessions of Canute, Henry VII., Anne; the battles of Blenheim, Poitiers, Bosworth; the discoveries of America, Australia, Cape of Good Hope; the deaths of Wallace, Charles I., General Wolfe; the peace of Utrecht, of Brétigni, and of Amiens.

SECTION II.

Write a brief account of one of each of the following groups:

(a) Canute, Edward the Confessor, the Black

Prince.

(b) Wolsey, Strafford, Lord Bacon.
(c) Marlborough, Wellington, Nelson.

SECTION III.

1. What insurrections took place in the reign of Henry VII.? State the false claims put forth by the leaders, and their subsequent fates.

2. Give a brief account of the events that occurred in Great Britain between the years 1649 and 1660.

3. What constitutional changes marked the Revolution of 1688-9? Name some of the distinguished men of the reigns of William III, and Anne.

SECTION IV.

1. Give some account of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of the punishments of the defeated rebels.

2. Enumerate, with dates, the chief events of the latter half of the 18th century, and some of the more distinguished persons who took part in them.

3. Give a brief description of the battle of Trafalgar or of Vittoria, and state the political results of the battle you have described.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

THREE hours allowed for this Paper with that on
MUSIC.

Those who are or have been Pupil Teachers are not to answer more than one question in any Section. Candidates who have not been Pupil Teachers may answer any seven questions they think fit, except in Section VII., from which only one subject should

be selected for notes of a lesson.

No Candidate is to answer more than seven questions.

SECTION I.

1. For what number of children were desks provided in your school? Describe the desks used, and state how much space was allowed for each child for writing. What lessons were given out of desks? or in a standing position? Why were they so given?

2. What movements of drill were required in your school for entering or leaving the room, and for changing class? What are the objects of school drill? Show that it has an influence upon the character of children and their behaviour out of school.

3. In what different shapes may classes be arranged for reading, arithmetic, and geography lessons?

State which shape you consider best for each purpose, and why you would employ that arrangement. What should be the position of the teacher in regard to

his class?

(For Females only.)

4. Name the parts of a boy's shirt of simple pattern, the proportions required in cutting it out, and the various kinds of work required for each part.

SECTION II.

1. In the following sentence explain the peculiar difficulties presented by the words printed in italics in the early stages of reading:

He would take no pains to teach any boy, who could not at least write what boys of eight years old can write.

2. What especial care would you bestow upon the less advanced readers in your class, before, during, or after the reading lesson? How can home lessons be utilised for teaching reading?

3. What preparation is required in a reading lesson both for the individual words, and for the general sense of the passage? How may a reading lesson be divided to secure both the mechanical and intelligent mastering of a passage? State the proportions of time given to each division.

SECTION III.

1. How can mental addition and subtraction of money be used to illustrate the first steps in simple addition and subtraction? What other illustrations would you employ?

2. The Education Code states "The weights and measures taught in public elementary schools should be only such as are really useful." To what common uses may the avoirdupois, liquid, and square measure tables be applied? Give examples of such mental problems as you would employ in each of these tables for fourth standard children.

3. Write down the rules for working mentally the following sums-prices of dozens, of scores, multiplying by 99, and dividing by 60.

SECTION IV.

1. What elements are common to the written letters, P, q, h, g, d,y? In what order and in what combinations would you teach these elements to infants?

2. By what rules would you be guided in selecting the extracts for transcription, or the subjects for composition for a class whose handwriting was well formed?

3. Give some examples of a child's first steps in learning to draw, and explain the progressive nature of each step.

SECTION V.

1. By what illustrations have you given children their first ideas of mountains and rivers (a) from their own experience, or, (b) on the black board?

2. Name some stories from English History that you have found to be most attractive to young children, and explain simply the causes of their attractiveness.

3. Show that grammar and composition may be taught simultaneously from the first. Give examples of such simple sentences as may be formed by third standard children to illustrate the positions of the verb and adjective in a simple sentence.

SECTION VI.

1. Show that inattention in a class may proceed from the faults of the teacher, or from causes other than faults in the children themselves.

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