6. Find two numbers whose difference is 6, such that if the less be added to the greater, the sum shall be equal to the greater diminished by the less. 7. A after doing three-fifths of a piece of work in 30 days finishes it in 10 days with the help of B. Find in what time each would do it. 8. A certain number of two digits is equal to five times the sum of its digits; and if 9 be added to the number the digits are reversed; find the number. III. CLASS III. SCHOOL SYSTEM. Time, 1 hr. 1. What is the date of the Annual School Meeting, and in what order should the business be conducted? 2. What are the duties of the teacher in respect to his pupils (a) in the school-room, (b) on the play-ground, (c) on their way to and from school? 3. What are the privileges of Teachers in respect to religious exercises at the opening and close of school? What prohibitions are teachers under in regard to religious matters? 4. What requirements may the teacher make of the pupils in regard (a) to the pupils' appearance and conduct, (b) to tardiness or absence from school, (c) to textbooks. 5. What would you do in case a pupil should be disobedient and refractory? III. TEACHING AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT. Time, 2 hrs. 1. How do you expect to make the work of your school interesting to your pupils? 2. Describe the method you will adopt to teach the first steps of reading. 3. Write out a lesson-plan for a lesson to Standard III. on any one of the following subjects: geography; arithmetic; English grammar. Select your own topic. 4. How do you propose to teach (a) writing from the copy-book, (b) spelling? 5. When would you consider a school well organized? 6. Write out a time table for a miscellaneous school of three classes for a day. Show how you would keep the separate classes employed in the morning session before recess. 7. What is school discipline? On what conditions does good discipline depend? 8. How would you endeavor to make your pupils respectful, kind to each other, obedient, truthful? III. GEOGRAPHY. Time, 1 hr. 30 min. PART I. 1. Define isthmus, oasis, river basin, zone, meridian. 2. Explain the cause of day and night. 3. Name the coast waters, islands and headlands to be seen in a voyage from St. Stephen to Campbellton, or the rivers and towns passed in a railway journey between the same points. 4. Mention the chief towns on the St, Lawrence and the Great Lakes; or, the principal seaports of Great Britain and Ireland. PART II. 5. Draw a map of New Brunswick. NOTE.-The Examiner will allow 70 marks for Part I. and 30 for Part II. ENGLISH AND CANADIAN HISTORY. (As in Class II.) III. ARITHMETIC. Time, 1 hr. 30 min. [Exhibit the operations clearly. Questions in which the proof or explanation, is required, are of greater value than the others. The explanation is reckoned of as much or greater value than the operation, but the unitary method is held to include both.] 1. A hogshead of molasses containing 120 gals. cost $40. Twenty gallons leaked out. At how much per gallon must the remainder be sold in order to gain 20 per cent? 2. What will the carpeting required for a floor, 15 ft. 6 in. long and 12 ft. 6 in, wide, cost at $2.40 per yard, the carpeting being 30 in. wide? 3. A and B together can do a piece of work in three days. A alone can do it in five days. In what time could B do it? Explain the operation, or work by the unitary method. 4. Find the greatest common measure of 273 and 2808 without factoring, and prove that the result must be the g. c. m. 18 5. Reduce to a decimal, and divide the result by four thousand five hundred and ninety-six and eighty-seven thousand and ninety-four millionths until the quotient contains three digits. Explain the method by which you determined the place of the point in the quotient. 8 6. Find the difference in pints between of a gallon and .0875 of a bushel. 7. $56.25. FREDERICTON, June 12, 1891. One year after date, for value received, I promise to pay to John Smith, or order, fifty-six and 25 dollars, with interest from date at 6 cent. 100 Endorsement June 12, 1892, $40. What was due on Dec. 15, 1893 ? NOTE. Six questions make a full paper. per WILLIAM JONES. III. USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Time, 1 hr. 1. What are the different kinds of cotton, linen, wool and silk? Where is silk chiefly manufactured? How is the raw material obtained? 2. From what sources are the following common things derived: Glass, parchment, steel, ink, paper? 3. State what you know about cork, sponge, coral. 4. Name the principal minerals found in New Brunswiek, and the uses to which they are severally applied. 5. Describe as if to a class in the third reader, the cause of the seasons. III. ENGLISH COMPOSITION. Time, 1 hr. 1. What are the principal directions to be observed in regard to the form of written composition? 2. Give a paraphrase of the following: "The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry." 3. Show clearly the distinctions in meaning of the following synonyms, and write a sentence in which each is properly used: (a) Two, Couple. (c) Bad, Wicked, Evil. (d) Want, Need. 4. What are the principal figures of speech? Give an example of each. 5. Write a letter addressed to John Smith, Secretary of Trustees, London, Dist. No. 7, Parish of Douglas, York Co., applying for the district school, and stating your qualifications. Sign a fictitious name. III. ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS. Time, 1 hr. 1. Give a definition of each of the several parts of speech. 2. Distinguish the Active from the Passive voice; and change the following sentences so as to use in each the opposite voice of the verb: (a) The lightning struck the church. (b) The horse was frightened by the noise. (c) The lawn was trimmed yesterday by the gardener. (d) The boy was teasing the dog. (e) By whom was this cup broken? 3. Point out the error or errors in each of the following sentences and make the proper corrections: (a) I have met your friend, he that is the sailor. (b) Those sort of books are useless. (c) We sorrow not as them that have no hope. (d) He is the best of the two. (e) Every thought and feeling are opposed to it. (f) The book was laying on the table. 4. Give the general and particular analysis of the following, and parse, the italicised words: "Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the Castled Rhine, III. ENGLISH LITERATURE. Time, 1 hr. 1. From what poem, written by whom, has each of the following quotations been taken?: And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." Felt them in her bosom glow; Rushed to battle, fought, and died, – Dying hurled them at the foe." 2. Turn the following into prose, using, as far as possible, your own words: 3. What are the principal works of Longfellow, Byron, Walter Scott, Goldsmith, Gray? 4. Explain the difference between a Simile and a Metaphor and give examples. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. (As in Class I.) FRENCH DEPARTMENT-FRENCH. Time, 1 hr. 1. Write in French a letter of not less than twelve lines addressed to a Board of School Trustees, stating your qualifications and aplying for the school. (Do not sign your own name.) 2. Translate into English the following passage: Une invention qui a produit la plus grande révolution dans les habitudes et les moeurs des trois quarts du genre humain, c'est celle de l'imprimerie. Elle est due à un gentilhomme de Mayence, appelé Jean Gutenburg. Il imagina de graver en relief, sur les planches de bois ou du cuivre, les livres, qu'il voulait imprimer. Cette première invention fut suivie d'une seconde beaucoup plus ingénieuse ce fut de sculpter des lettres de bois en de métal, séparées les unes des autres, et que l'on pouvait employer pour toutes sortes de compositions. 3. Write in full the present indicative of the verbs: est, imagina, voulait, pouvait, employer. 4. Show the agreement of the participes passés which are italicized. 5. Parse des, celle, qu', and give the masculine gender and plural number of celle, premiére, ingénieuse, the plural of métal, and the masculine plural of toutes. I. 1. Give a definition of good reading. READING. Time, 1 hr. 2, Name what you consider the principal things to be kept in view in teaching reading. |