What does Mr. Adeyemi ask Camila to do?
Listen to a Classroom Conversation · ELPAC Grades 11–12 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
A multiple-turn conversation between two speakers, followed by three questions.
Listen to the conversation between Mr. Adeyemi and Camila about her draft. Then answer the questions.
The Draft and the Evidence
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Mr. Adeyemi: Camila, your draft argues that the city should extend the bus line to the industrial park. The argument itself is clear. What I have marked is where the evidence sits.
Camila: I put all of the numbers in the third paragraph.
Mr. Adeyemi: You did, and they are good numbers. The trouble is that paragraph four goes back to opinion, and paragraph five introduces a new claim with nothing under it.
Camila: The claim about people leaving jobs because of the commute?
Mr. Adeyemi: That one. It is the strongest thing you say and the only thing you do not support. A reader who already agrees with you will still notice.
Camila: The transit survey has turnover data. I left it out because it is two years old.
Mr. Adeyemi: Two years old and relevant beats current and unrelated. Use it, name the year, and let the reader judge. Bring me a revised paragraph five on Thursday.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What does Mr. Adeyemi ask Camila to do?
- Move the numbers from paragraph three into paragraph five.
- Cut paragraph five out of the draft.
- Find turnover data from the current year.
- Revise paragraph five using the survey and name the year of the data.Correct answer
Why “Revise paragraph five using the survey and name the year of the data.” is correct
This tests listening for the instruction, which in a teacher conference usually arrives in the closing turn. Three linked directions land together at the end: use the survey, name the year, and bring a revised paragraph five on Thursday. The correct answer has to hold more than one of them, so it is worth asking a student exactly what is due and when.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Move the numbers from paragraph three into paragraph five. — The numbers work where they are; the problem is that paragraph five has none of its own.
- Cut paragraph five out of the draft. — He calls the claim the strongest thing in the draft, so cutting it is the opposite of his advice.
- Find turnover data from the current year. — He specifically accepts the older data and asks her to state its year.
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