Oops

[estepheia]

I am currently checking out websites looking for German-English exercises. I found several "suppliers" who sell PDF files of exercises to teachers and pupils. Very useful stuff, these sites usually have a few sample exercises, so you get an impression what kind of material you're paying for. One such sample exercise was this:

Change into simple past: Children don't have to go to school, so not many people can read or write. There are some famous boys' schools in London, but only rich men's sons may go there. These boys can get their books from a new bookshop in the city, but they are expensive.

Correct answer: (Children didn't have to go to school, so not many people could read or write. There were some famous boys' schools in London, but only rich men'sons might go there. These boys can get their books from a new bookshop in the city, but they were expensive.)

Uh-huh. Sloppy, very sloppy.

Comments

[violetfrosting.livejournal.com]

Ahh - poorly-done teacher's notes. IO remember them well. Had things marked wrong many a time because a teacher was relying on the answers on the book rather than the knowledge itself.

The scary part is that some people might be learning that as correct... *shudders*

[shatten.livejournal.com]

My English cancelled today :-) hihihii

That means a whole day (apart from shopping in about 2 hours - oh and reading about 20 blogs so far) writing.... :-)

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

My English pupil will come today and I have to prepare exercises for her. *sigh* I don't have worksheets and such, I have to think up all the sentences and examples myself. Quite time consuming.

We are concentrating on tenses.

*is rushed and somewhat panicky*