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Distractor Preparation
1) The teacher who create their own distractors
Also be sure you do not give away to the right answer through grammatical cues.
Example: she needs to get up earlier so shes buying an ___ clock.
A. time B. alarm c. watch d. bell
should be clear.
Example:
very short: circle the letter of the right answer or circle the
Vocabulary Choice
Distractor Preparation
Instruction Preparation
Vocabulary Choice
Example: She was irate when she heard about the new plan.
A. interested B. surprised C. angry D. sad
But, the students with very little English wont know synonyms for every many words.
However, it can be stated by explaining the meaning.
Example: My husband is a pilot. He can ____.
A. help sick people B. make a clothes C. fly an airplane D. teach students in class
Distractor Preparation
Try to get distractors that are related to subject covered in the sentence. This is particularly
in testing intermediate and advance students.
Example; He just hit his shin
A. leg B. cousin C. fender D. fruit
Try avoid pairing a word of opposite meaning with the right answer.
Example: He plans to purchase some candy for his sister
A. make B. buy C. sell D. steal
Vocabulary Choice
Distractor Preparation
Instruction Preparation
Vocabulary choice
You can give your students some words of prefix and suffix and they might also know the
negative prefix such as un.
Context preparation
Students success on the exam will depend in part on your sentence contexts. It is also
possible to check students knowledge of when not to add a prefix or suffix.
Example:
1. My teach___ is very helpful
2. Did she teach___ you anything?
For the 1 question, the answer is suffix er is required, but for the second question student
cannot left empty but put X in the blank.
Instruction preparation
We might give the following directions;
Complete the words in these sentences, when noting is needed put X in the blank. Blank
left empty will be wrong
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