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Hi teachers,Will you tell me if they are accepable directions for the exercise? If not will you tell me which ones?Put the needed sentence parts in correct order to have an affirmative sentence.  _____________________________________________________________  areonsomeanythethereshelfbooksnot  Thanks in advance

Philip · Accepted Answer

...in the correct order

Clive · Answer

Hi,

Will you tell me if they are accepable directions for the exercise? If not will you tell me which ones?

Put the needed sentence parts in correct order to have an affirmative sentence.

__

are

on

some

any

the

there

shelf

books

not

'Needed' implies that some of them are not needed. Is this your meaning?

Instead of 'Put the . . . sentence parts . . . ', why not just say 'Put the . . . words . . .' ? As you know, I often feel that you make your instructions unnecessarily complicated. This is a prime example.

I took a quick moment to try to do this exercise, and couldn't.

Personally, I don't feel such an exercise helps students to learn, because we never do this kind of thing in real life or in real communication.

Clive

Tenacious Learner · Answer

Hi Philip,

Thank you very much for your answer.

Tenacious Learner · Answer

Clive'Needed' implies that some of them are not needed. Is this your meaning?

Yes, it is.

CliveAs you know, I often feel that you make making your instructions unnecessarily complicated. This is a prime example.

The instructions have been taken from a book except the word 'needed'. If I asked it in the forum was to know if they can be easier.

CliveI took a quick moment to try to do this exercise, and couldn't.

Let me tell you that the students of this group have been working on the quantity words 'any' and 'some' for affirmative, negative, and yes and no questions for uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns.

The last class, as a game, I wrote these words in the wrong order on the board and they really like it. So I thought I could make a game out of it.

By the way, the resulting ordered sentence is, 'There are some books on the shelf'.

I should tell you that the resulting sentences are sentences that we have already done in class. They have wrriten them and have also review them orally with drawings. So they are very familiar with them. That's the idea, play with something they know.

Thank you for your patience. There's always something behind when I ask in the Forum, but I appreciate your commentaries and corrections, I really do.

TS

PS I wish I can post here the whole chapter for you to see how it works, but it's impossible, or at least I don't know how to do it.

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