salih+Actual+test

This is my new modified test

General


 * 1) Make sure you get someone to do the test as a student to check on the instructions and the 'doability' of some of the tasks.
 * 2) In general, you should note the total points for each section, as well as the points for each answer. It would be prudent to have an example for each question.
 * 3) Feels a bit 'disjointed' and a 'patch-work quilt'. I wonder about the authenticity issue
 * 4) Do you think 50 minutes is right for this test?
 * 5) Anser key/marking criteria??? You've got lots of open-ended questions, or questions that appear to have more than one correct answer.

Details

PART ONE: Language point: No article with BREAKFAST Use an oblique stroke- " / " to separate the pairs Q4: Language point: FLIED ?????? ? GOING TO FLIED ????

PART TWO: Be very clear with the instructions. Can they add words? How many? Change word forms? Q3: "Every day" (two words)

PART THREE: Would be an idea to give them a page from filled in diary for a week, just with brief notes about events during that week. Then, get them to construct a written account of their week in an imaginary diary on a certain day in the week. Still leaves quite a bit to their creativity, but it will give you a more objective way to assess their use of tenses. You can construct the timeline so that they have to use the conjunctions to complete the diary...so you needn't tell them which conjuctions they have to use. Language point: Should be consisted of... SHOULD BE.. Should consist of

PART FOUR: Nice idea to use the picture prompts, but the task to write a story with all of those tenses is quite artificial (write 10 sentences, and use each of the five required tenses in two sentences.) That will be quite challenging--almost impossible to do this and write a fluent and cohesive paragraph. Get a friend to actually write such a paragraph. What is your marking criteria? If you want to keep this questions, I would suggest modifying it by adding a timeline and indicating where the pictures are on the time line. At least that way you can judge whether the students actually understand how to use the tenses to sequence a narrative. If you let them write it on their own, you won't really understand if they truly understand the way the tenses relate to each other in a sequence of events.

PART FIVE: What are you testing here? Are you expecting short answers or full sentences? What is the marking criteria? Where are they going to write the answers to the questions? Instruction: Please write the answers of the questions. SHOULD BE "Write your answer below each question."

PART SIX: Allow more line spacing so it is possible to write words in the gaps. Seems that there are some missing words, e.g. something missing in this sentence. "
 * I usually ……………………. (get) up early so often …………………….. (sleep) at around half past ten.** "