ego4u Board for Teachers

Subject: Re: Who is teaching the teachers?

wondering? (61.110.55.*) wrote on 27.07.12 at 06:19

Paul Ingrams wrote:
>
> Hold the mouse pointer over (i) in order to get an
> explanation on the correct answer. Is the correct answer
> coloured in brown, hold the mouse pointer over the correct
> answer to see what your wrong answer.
>
> Hi
>
> I was recommended to this site by the head of the terrifying
> TESOL course I am about to undertake, and have been trying
> some of the grammar tests for size. I've worked
> professionally with the English language all my life, often
> in supervisory roles; and, while I accept that I have
> developed many bad habits, and have little recollection of
> the formal rules taught to me in school, whether in English,
> Latin or Greek, I don't tend to fail at multiple-choice
> questionnaires on basic aspects of grammar in my own
> language!
>
> It's frustrating, therefore, to be told that I have
> submitted a 'wrong' answer, when I know I haven't, and then
> to be confronted with the sentences reproduced above! It's
> 'explanation of', not 'on' - 'see what your wrong answer
> is', not just 'see what your wrong answer' - while a
> sentence beginning with 'Is' is invariably a question, that
> should be characterised by the use of a question mark at the
> end. In fact, this sentence only makes sense as a statement:
> 'The correct answer IS coloured (not 'in') brown, hold the
> mouse pointer (incorrect term, we just say 'pointer', or
> 'mouse-over'.) It is not necessary to repeat 'the correct
> answer', which could be substituted by the impersonal
> pronoun, 'it'...
>
> Sorry to carp, cavil and criticise, but I do wonder who has
> been teaching the teacher?
>
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