What should students do right after they fill the cup with dirt?
Basic Understanding of Spoken English · TELPAS Grade 2 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 2: understand the main points and important details of spoken stories and informational passages, about everyday life and school subjects.
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Planting Beans
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Ms. Garza: Today each of you will plant a bean seed in a cup.
Ms. Garza: First, fill your cup with dirt almost to the top. Next, push one seed into the dirt with your finger. Then, give it a little water, just one spoonful.
Ms. Garza: Last, put your cup on the shelf by the window.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What should students do right after they fill the cup with dirt?
- Give the seed some water
- Push one seed into the dirtCorrect answer
- Put the cup by the window
- Fill the cup again with more dirt
Why “Push one seed into the dirt” is correct
Ms. Garza gives four steps with order words: first, next, then and last. Right after filling the cup comes "next": push one seed into the dirt. Listening for order words like these is the key to following a teacher's directions.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Give the seed some water — Watering is the third step. It comes after the seed is in the dirt.
- Put the cup by the window — Putting the cup by the window is the last step.
- Fill the cup again with more dirt — The teacher says to fill the cup almost to the top, not to add more dirt after that.
Practice more of this
More listening practice for Grade 2, or see the TELPAS practice test for 2nd grade.
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