As promised, I will deliver this tale of the spin-off version of the better known 'better late than never' adage which was related to us by our Assessment in Literature lecturer. You see, the good English teacher had set up the activity of asking students to fill in the blanks in the phrasal verbs. And the story goes that there was this one question i.e. "better late than _____" and this one smart alec in the class raised up his hand and said " Pregnant, the answer is pregnant teacher." Well, the student was certainly paying a lot of attention in his science classes and who could deny that his answer is technically correct, right? So, before we go on into the debate and brouhaha of bringing sex education into the classroom, the more pertinent question that our lecturer raised was how can we assess the answers from the students which are ahem, technically correct but not expected in the syllabus spectrum? Hmm, we can't blame the students for being too smart too, can we? One thing's for sure though, Angelina Jolie's belly will certainly get bigger than Jack Black with her twin babies there...
2 comments:
A good point..How WOULD you deal with those technically correct answers hmm? Laugh them off?
If I am in that kind of situation, I would give KUDOS to the student for being so smart! Haha.. But I will also ask them for some other answers other than the one given by the "pregnant-shouting-student". One thing for sure, Mr. Lim did said that NEVER TO ACCEPT THE FIRST ANSWER. So, maybe ask around and come to a conclusion in the end that, the "pregnant" answer is relevant, but it's not what we are looking for. What do you think? Would this work?
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