Would you correct my question and answer please?

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Hi teachers,This is the conntext:I felt very strange. His left hand was like a young woman’s, but his back, under the coat, was horrible.Could this be an appropriate question?What were his left hand and back like?If so, could the answer be shorter or better?His left hand was like a young woman's and his back was horrible.Thanks in advance.

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

It's find. Do your students know the word "contrast"? Maybe you could build that into the question if so.

Fivejedjon · Answer

Thinking SpainI felt very strange. His left hand was like a young woman’s, but his back, under the coat, was horrible.Could this be an appropriate question?What were his left hand and back like?If so, could the answer be shorter or better?His left hand was like a young woman's and his back was horrible.

As I do from time to time, TS, I'll just point out that your questions don't really test comprehension. If the passage had contained the words "His left hand was like a snerdle’s, but his back, under the coat, was pippling", your questions would elicit the correct, but meaningless, answer.

Tenacious Learner · Answer

fivejedjonAs I do from time to time, TS, I'll just point out that your questions don't really test comprehension. If the passage had contained the words "His left hand was like a snerdle’s, but his back, under the coat, was pippling", your questions would elicit the correct, but meaningless, answer.

Hi fivejedjon,
Thank you for your reply. Yes, you do it from time to time. My response remains the same. I check both, their listening comprehension and mostly their ability to recognize spoken words and produce them in writing. They are beginners and intermediate students. I'll never teach advanced. I'm not prepared for that. I think I've told you elsewhere what my studies have been.
By the way, this is my reality:
My students work and are adult people, two hours of English per week, most of them married, one or two kids. Honestly, they don't have many class hours! Time for them to practice and do a lot of homework? A chimera, a big dream! So I can't do much about it. The companies know it and so do they. As a result, they have to learn step by step. In fact, in very, very small steps.

TS

Tenacious Learner · Answer

Grammar Geek. Do your students know the word "contrast"? Yes, they do. Maybe you could build that into the question if so.

Hi Grammar Geek,
Thank you very much for your reply.
Could this one be what you mean?
What was his left hand like in contrast to his back?

TS

BarbaraPA · Answer

I think that would work and test comprehension as well as sound recognition.

Tenacious Learner · Answer

Grammar GeekI think that would work and test comprehension as well as sound recognition.

Hi Grammar Geek,
Thank you very much for your help!
The answer will remain the same, won't it?
His left hand was like a young woman's and his back was horrible.

I really admire the way you teachers can change a question completely. Is it magic?

TS

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