With a determination to incorporate more communicative skills in testing this year, I tried a new idea with my Spanish II students on this week's irregular yo forms in the present tense quiz.
I read a series of questions to my students such as ¿Dónde traes la computadora? or ¿Sabes el inglés bien? In a world with unlimited time, I could ask the question to each student and have him or her answer me back. However, today I had each of them write a full sentence response to my question. This way I could test their listening and writing skills.
I did read each question very slowly. (We had also practiced with similar questions on Wednesday and Thursday.) I am still debating if I need to have the students write an English translation of their sentences but I think I could tell from their responses if they understood my question or not. I liked that this quiz also required them to pay attention to question words (I only used who, what, and where to keep the focus on the verbs.)
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