----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Silverberg" <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: How to solve the Listening Comprehension Conundrum Five ideas Let's see now. . . We can't use tapes because there aren't going to be any more tapes. We can't use MP's because not everybody has them... We have real problems with CD's because people don't have them, the disks don't work, the tracks don't play, there's a thousand little landmines that await us on the exam date... Howbout. . . (one:) Just drop the Listening Comp! Nobody taught literature for ten years; now we have to teach literature so we can certainly get away with no listening. But what about the pupils who need to hear the exam? That's a toughie... OK: (Two) We put out a dish of cream on the floor the night before bagrut and little fairies come out and drink the cream and read the exams. (Three) We just tell the parents that it's not our problem and just give one exam in one big room with a thousand procors. (If your proctor is sick to yougo to a proctorologist?) (Four): Feed all the kids' phone numbers into one big data base and on the day of the Bagrut, Judy Steiner calls them all up with one press of a button and they hear the exam over their phones. (Five): We just wait patiently until the HOTS program kicks in and then the kids will be so darn intelligent they'll find a way out of this f____________ ( i mean Farkackteh) mess! ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------