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Hi teachers,Imagine I have a picture with some people in the gym and the exercise says:Look at the picture and complete the affirmative sentence using “some”.1. _________  ________   ___________  ________________ in the gym.The answer is:There are some people in the gym.It seems like the instructions above will be for an exercise like this:Use "some" to complete the sentences.1. There are ______ people in the gym.My question:Does "look at the picture" and the given lines in the first exercise help to clarify that students should write something else than "some" or the instructions have to be different?Thanks for your help.

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BCNN
Imagine I have a picture with some people in the gym and the exercise says:
Look at the picture and complete the affirmative sentence using “some”.
1. _________ ________ ___________ ________________ in the gym.

Lots of answers are possible.

I see some people in the gym.
Some people are exercising in the gym.
They do some exercises in the gym.

BCNN
The answer is:
There are some people in the gym.

I tried three times, and I got it wrong all three times.

An open question like this, with four words, is going to have too many correct answers to be useful. I would not use questions like this. There's no way you can say there is one correct answer, so it's useless on an exam. And if you use it as a class exercise, you'll spend all day explaining the 20 different answers you get and leave everyone confused.

BCNNDoes "look at the picture" and the given lines in the first exercise help to clarify that students should write something ~~else~~ other than "some" or do the instructions have to be different?

I don't follow this part of your post at all. The instructions say to use "some". That's the opposite of using "something other than 'some'".

CJ

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