68. Write a letter describing the county in which your school is situated.

69. Write an account of any poem which you have partly repeated during your apprenticeship.

70. Write out an account of the chief employments of the working class in the town or village in which your school is situated.

71. Write a short account of the principal vegetable productions of this country, especially of any for which your own district may be famous.

72. Write a short essay on Punctuality in the language you would use if you were giving a lesson to a first class.

73. Write a short description of the peculiarities of the climate of England.

74. Answer at length the following questions:-If you disregard the speed at which passengers and goods are carried from place to place by railways, are there any advantages over the old fashion of travelling by road in the modern one of travelling by steam?

75. Write an essay on 'What is Courage?'

76. Write full notes of a lesson on Adjectives.

77. Write full notes of a lesson on Transitive and Intransitive Verbs under the following heads :

(a) Explanation of terms.

(b) Examples in various forms.

(The object, and how to know it in a sentence.

(d) The use of Prepositions with Intransitive Verbs.

78. In giving a lesson in reading to any class, what method of instruction have you been taught to adopt, and what are the chief points which you have to press on the attention of the children under your charge?

79. Write full notes of a lesson on 'Gold.

80. Write out full notes of a lesson on 'Cleanliness.'

81. Give notes of a lesson showing how you would direct a class to write the word 'intentionally' both in large and in small hand, and how you would correct the common faults. 82. Write full notes of a lesson on The Fox.

83. Write full notes of a lesson on English Coins.

84. Describe fully the manner in which you would give a lesson in Dictation, and say what means you would adopt to prevent copying and to correct errors.

85. Write out an account of any naval engagement, campaign, machine, picture gallery, or exhibition of any kind which you have read about or seen.

86. Show how you would give a dictation lesson under the following heads:

(a) Explanation of words.

(b) Division into phrases of convenient length.

(c) Mode of correction.

(d) After lesson, or probable mistakes.

87. Enumerate and explain, as to a first class, the punctuation marks used in our language, giving directions (with examples) for the use of each.

88. Describe, as to a first class, the Railway System of England.

89. Explain what you consider good style in writing.

90. Relate the advantages of Early Rising.

91. Write full notes of a lesson on a fraction, and show by what sort of diagram or other illustration you can make the nature of a fraction clear to beginners.

92. Write an essay on Economy of Food.

93. Write notes of a lesson on 'The Construction of a Map,' under these heads :

(a) What is a map?

(b) What is meant by 'The Cardinal Points,' distinguishing the actual North, South, East, and West from the places given to them on the map?

(c) The Scale.

(a) The lines drawn on a map.

Illustrate your lesson by drawing a full map of South America, and refer to it on each point.

94. Write notes of a lesson on Silver and its Uses.

95. Give notes of a lesson on 'The Mediterranean Sea, its Physical Character and Commercial Importance, now and in past times.'

96. Write an essay on Home Lessons, how to plan and examine them.

A KEY TO COMPLETE SET

OF

PUPIL TEACHERS'

GOVERNMENT EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

IN

Paraphrasing, Derivation, History of the Language, Parsing and Analysis.

BY

CHARLES BOWDEN,

WESLEYAN SCHOOLS, GATESHEAD-ON-TYNE,

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

THREE TUNS PASSAGE, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, E.C.

MORRISON AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,

PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

PREFACE.

It has not been thought necessary to prepare answers to the ordinary questions on English Grammar in the Pupil Teachers' Examination Manuals, as such questions can be readily enough answered by those Pupil Teachers who have properly prepared the work assigned to them in the Syllabus.

Such a remark, however, does not apply equally well to the questions in Parsing, Analysis, History of the Language, etc.; and it is believed that the answers here given will be of real service to all Pupil Teachers, supplying, as they do, examples of the method of treatment of some of the most difficult idioms of the English language.

Difference of opinion as to the mode of parsing some of the words there will necessarily be, and practical suggestions from Teachers who use the book will be gratefully accepted by the Author, although it is believed that the best methods have been adopted.

C. B.

GATESHEAD, February 2, 1880.