Fill in the gaps with is/are and the corresponding color.

(Grammar)

There______ two ______ hearts.

There _____ three ______ pencils.

There _____ a _______ car.

There ______ two _____ trees.

There ______ an _________ orange.

There _____ a _______ jacket.

There ______ two _______ umbrellas.

JUSTIFICATION
Exercise 1: The technique used in this exercise was “gap filling”. The students must
complete two spaces, the first with are/is and the second one with the color of the picture.
This exercise allows students not only to practice the topic but also if you want to evaluate
and practice another topic, in this case we decided to add extra information in the assignment,
it was colors. “Those deletions can be measure one´s vocabulary knowledge and grammatical
ability”. In this test, the target word is deleted from a sentence, the test´-taker must understand
the context of the sentence and complete it with the appropriate word.

Taking into account that these exercises were for second grade, they must be with a lot
pictures instead of text, it is important that students make relation between pictures and words
rather than write sentences.

This is limited production. It represents only limited amount of language production (Brown,
2012).

Exercise 2: This activity is building sentences recognition. The aim of the crossword is that
by means of pictures the students can complete the crossword. While the activity is being
carried out, students are aware about what word comes next because as the students complete
one word, this helps to identify the next one, and so on.

Testing techniques workshop.

3. Gap filling (Grammar)

Complete the following sentences using appropriate adjectives. Choose your answers from
the options given below.

(Different, favorite, hard-earned, holy, helpless, puzzled, risky, science, unique, whole, six)

1. The sick woman lay …………………. in her bed.

2. The old farmer had …………………… children of …………………..ages.

3. He said that he would not leave until he gets his …………………..money back.

4. We visited many …………………. places on our pilgrimage.

5. It was a ………………….project.

6. The brave boy undertook a ………………… task by jumping into the river to save his
drowning brother.

7. She spent the …………………..day talking about her pet projects and bored us all.

8. I was …………………..by his strange behavior.

9. You can make changes if you think it is …………………….

10. The time machine is a …………………..topic with writers of …………………..fiction.

Justification: This activity is Gap filling consists in each students from eighth grade in a
private school need to complete each sentence using the appropriate adjectives that they have
in the options given in the first part of the activity. Then students must write in each gap an
adjective without repeat it, every sentence must has a different adjective in their gaps.
 4. Testing production ability-Pictures (Vocabulary)

Use the appropriate adjective and comparative and superlative adjective form to describe the
following pictures.

Pictures Adjectives Comparative Superlative

adjectives Adjectives

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

 1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

2. ______________ 2. ______________ 2. ______________

1. ______________ 1. ______________ 1. ______________

Justification: Testing production ability - Pictures (Vocabulary). The main purpose of this
activity is assess students’ abilities to recognize the correct adjectives vocabulary in order
engaged their learning process. Taking into account that students are in seventh grade they
could recognize through pictures the correct adjectives. Subsequently they need to write the
adjective in comparative and superlative form improving their learning process and
promoting their learning vocabulary.

Reference

Brown (2012). “Assessing Grammar And Vocabulary.” [Online], Available:

https://sites.google.com/site/jingwusteachingportofolio/wujing/domain-4-
assessment/artifact-4-2. Date Accessed: 17 April 2018.