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Hi teachers,
This is for a listening comprehension exercise.
Two questions:
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If this is what the students will hear: Hiroshi smiled as he held the door open for her. Of course. It’s your birthday. Everything’s arranged.
Will this be the correct information to be asked?
Write down what Hiroshi did before talking.

b) If this is what the students will hear, ‘Inside, the big room was almost full.Well-dressed people talked softly together’.
Will this be the correct information to be asked?
Write what the big room looked like.


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Hi teachers,
This is for a listening comprehension exercise.

Two questions:

a)
If this is what the students will hear: "Hiroshi smiled as he held the door open for her. Of course. It’s your birthday. Everything’s arranged'", [STRIKE]Will[/STRIKE]is this [STRIKE]be the correct information to be asked[/STRIKE] a suitable question to ask?

Write down what Hiroshi did before talking.
As written, that is not a question, it's a demand. I would use "speaking", not "talking". If you actually want to make it a question, it will have to be "What did Hiroshi do before speaking?"

b) If this is what the students will hear, ‘Inside, the big room was almost full. Well-dressed people talked softly together’, [STRIKE]Will[/STRIKE] is this [STRIKE]be the correct information to be asked[/STRIKE] a suitable question to ask?

Write down what the big room looked like.

The same applies to this one. For a question, you need "What did the big room look like?"

Thanks in advance.

See above for my suggestions. Don't forget that when you start a sentence with "If this is what ..." then you need to have a comma at the end of that clause, and then another clause.
 

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Hi,
Thank you very much for your reply and corrections. Thank you for your teaching.:-D
The thing is that I prefer to have indirect questions rather than direct ones.

"What did Hiroshi do before speaking?" Instead, "Write what Hiroshi did before speaking." Right?
"What did the big room look like?" Instead, "Write what the big room looked like." Right?





 

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Hi,
Thank you very much for your reply and corrections. Thank you for your teaching.:-D
The thing is that I prefer to have indirect questions rather than direct ones.

"What did Hiroshi do before speaking?" Instead, "Write what Hiroshi did before speaking." Right?
"What did the big room look like?" Instead, "Write what the big room looked like." Right?


I prefer "Write down" to simply "Write" but that's personal opinion. There's no reason why you can't state it as a demand instead of a question. The only reason I pointed it out was that in your original post you said "Two questions". I thought you meant "Here are two questions that I will be giving my students". I realise now that you meant "I have two questions for the forum". Apologies for my misunderstanding.
 

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I prefer "Write down" to simply "Write" but that's personal opinion. There's no reason why you can't state it as a demand instead of a question. The only reason I pointed it out was that in your original post you said "Two questions". I thought you meant "Here are two questions that I will be giving my students". I realise now that you meant "I have two questions for the forum". Apologies for my misunderstanding.

Hi,
No need to apologise at all. But thank you very much. I guess, I should have said, 'Could you correct these two indirect questions please? or 'Will this be the correct information to be asked?'
 

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Hi again,
Someone told me that, 'write about' will not be very good there,since 'write about' suggests at least a paragraph of writing. He also suggested 'Write down.'
Is it right the explanation?
 

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Hi,
No need to apologise at all. But thank you very much. I guess, I should have said, 'Could you correct these two indirect questions please? or 'Will this be the correct information to be asked?'

Maybe it's my misunderstanding but I don't see "Write down what he did before speaking" as an indirect question. It's just an instruction.

What did he do before speaking? = direct question.
I asked/will ask my students what he did before speaking = indirect question.

"Will this be the correct information to be asked?" is definitely not correct. It's not a natural sentence. I wouldn't know if you were asking me if I thought you were asking for the appropriate information from your students or something else. "To be asked" also doesn't work here.

I would just stick with "Is the following instruction [to my students] correct/acceptable?"
 

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Hi again,

Someone told me that (no comma required) 'write about' [STRIKE]will not be very good[/STRIKE] wouldn't be appropriate there, (space required after comma) since 'write about' suggests at least a paragraph of writing. He also suggested 'Write down.'
Is [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE]
the explanation right? [STRIKE]the explanation?[/STRIKE]

Yes. If someone asked me to "write about" something, I would start to construct a short piece of writing, not answer a simple question.

Write about your favourite holiday.
Write about what you did last night.

I wouldn't expect a one sentence answer to those requests.

Note my amendments to your post in red and grey. Take a look at your punctuation usage.
Note in particular my changes to your final sentence. Remember that "Es correcta, la explicación?" does not translate directly into English. You need to change the word order.
 

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Hi,
Maybe it's my misunderstanding but I don't see "Write down what he did before speaking" as an indirect question. It's just an instruction. You are right! To be an indirect question I should say for example, 'Ask what he did before speaking and then answer it.'
Am I right?

So the instructions for this kind of exercises should be, 'Listen carefully and .........' I just don't know what to write where the ellipses are.
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Yes. If someone asked me to "write about" something, I would start to construct a short piece of writing, not answer a simple question.

Write about your favourite holiday.
Write about what you did last night.

I wouldn't expect a one sentence answer to those requests.

Note my amendments to your post in red and grey. Take a look at your punctuation usage.
Note in particular my changes to your final sentence. Remember that "Es correcta, la explicación?" does not translate directly into English. You need to change the word order.

Hi,
Thank YOU so much for your dedication and corrections. I appreciate them very much. You caught me again with translation.:oops:


Best,
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So the instruction for this kind of exercises should be, 'Listen carefully and .........' I just don't know what to write where the ellipses are.
L54

Listen carefully and answer the following questions.
Listen carefully then follow the instructions.
 

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Listen carefully and answer the following questions.
Listen carefully then follow the instructions.
Hi,
Thank YOU very much again. Simple and clear!:up:


Best,
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