Choosing a greeting at a fixed time of day in Bogotá.
A classmate greets you at 8 a.m. on the way into school. What does she most naturally say?
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Respuesta correcta: A)Good morning!
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is Good morning. Greetings and the verb to be are the spine of the first five weeks of Grade 6 English in Colombia, and the time-of-day greeting is where students over-generalise from Spanish, which has a single buenos dias for the whole morning. Attaching each expression to its actual hours is the first real production checkpoint of the year, and it returns in the school register every day afterwards.
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Respuesta correcta: A)Good morning!
A)Good morning!This is the greeting used from dawn until roughly midday, and 8 a.m. falls squarely inside that stretch of the day.
B)Good afternoon!This is used after lunch has been eaten, while 8 a.m. is still morning in English.
C)Good night!This is what you say before sleeping or at the very end of a late evening, not at the start of the school day.
D)How are you?This asks about someone's state or condition rather than about the time of day, so it does not fit a morning greeting.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is Good morning. Greetings and the verb to be are the spine of the first five weeks of Grade 6 English in Colombia, and the time-of-day greeting is where students over-generalise from Spanish, which has a single buenos dias for the whole morning. Attaching each expression to its actual hours is the first real production checkpoint of the year, and it returns in the school register every day afterwards.
Pregunta 2
Pregunta 2 · D3Bloom: Remember
Answering a question about nationality with the verb to be.
Complete the dialogue. Ana: "Where are you from?" Luis: "I ________ from Medellín."
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Respuesta correcta: A)am
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is am. The present simple of to be is the first piece of grammar Grade 6 students meet and the one they practise most, in introductions and short dialogues. Isolating the agreement rule with a nationality question avoids drilling the endings in the abstract, and the same subject-verb agreement returns in every week of the rest of the year.
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Respuesta correcta: A)am
A)amWith the subject I the verb to be takes the form am, so the first person singular is the only one that fits this sentence.
B)isThe form is goes with he, she and it, so it does not agree with the subject I in this sentence.
C)areThe form are goes with you, we and they, so it does not agree with the subject I in this sentence.
D)beThe bare infinitive be has no subject attached to it, so the sentence would be left without a finite verb.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is am. The present simple of to be is the first piece of grammar Grade 6 students meet and the one they practise most, in introductions and short dialogues. Isolating the agreement rule with a nationality question avoids drilling the endings in the abstract, and the same subject-verb agreement returns in every week of the rest of the year.
Pregunta 3
Pregunta 3 · D4Bloom: Understand
Reading a classroom inventory list.
Read the list: "3 pencils, 1 board, 12 chairs, 2 windows". How many chairs are there?
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Respuesta correcta: C)12
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is 12. Reading a short inventory and binding each number to the item it modifies is the comprehension move the first period builds towards. Classroom inventories are exactly the texts Grade 6 Colombian students meet in science and maths, so this reading doubles as a cross-subject skill with no extra content vocabulary to learn first.
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Respuesta correcta: C)12
A)3The number 3 is paired with the pencils in the list, so it counts the wrong object.
B)1The number 1 is paired with the board, and the list mentions only one board.
C)12The list pairs 12 with chairs, so the classroom has 12 chairs, which is more than a single row of desks would hold.
D)2The number 2 is paired with the windows, and the list mentions two windows rather than two chairs.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is 12. Reading a short inventory and binding each number to the item it modifies is the comprehension move the first period builds towards. Classroom inventories are exactly the texts Grade 6 Colombian students meet in science and maths, so this reading doubles as a cross-subject skill with no extra content vocabulary to learn first.
Pregunta 4
Pregunta 4 · D4Bloom: Understand
Identifying the object a student points to in class.
Tomás points at the long flat surface the teacher writes on. What is it called?
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Respuesta correcta: B)the board
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is the board. Classroom vocabulary is the second-week content that pays off in every later task, because almost every story, exercise or instruction the student meets is set in a classroom. Naming an object from a physical description attaches the word to what the object actually is, which is the reverse of recognising a word on a page.
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Respuesta correcta: B)the board
A)the deskA desk is the table a student works at, which sits below the writing surface rather than being it.
B)the boardThe board is the flat surface the teacher writes on with chalk or a marker, which is the object Tomás is pointing at.
C)the floorThe floor is the surface under the students' feet, not the vertical surface used for writing.
D)the windowA window lets light into the room and is set in the wall, so it is not the surface used for writing.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is the board. Classroom vocabulary is the second-week content that pays off in every later task, because almost every story, exercise or instruction the student meets is set in a classroom. Naming an object from a physical description attaches the word to what the object actually is, which is the reverse of recognising a word on a page.
Pregunta 5
Pregunta 5 · D4Bloom: Apply
Describing where a student is sitting with a preposition of place.
A student sits on a chair inside a classroom. Which sentence describes this correctly?
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Respuesta correcta: A)The student is in the classroom.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is in the classroom. Prepositions of place are where Spanish and English part company, since Spanish uses a single preposition for most of these relations. Practising them in the classroom the student already knows makes the difference between in, on and at concrete, and this is the foundation the giving-directions week of the fourth period builds on directly.
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Respuesta correcta: A)The student is in the classroom.
A)The student is in the classroom.The preposition in is used for something inside a room or a building, which is exactly where the student is sitting.
B)The student is on the school.This would place the student on top of the whole institution, and a school is a building rather than a surface.
C)The student is at the chair.At names a point or a specific place rather than a container, and it is not the preposition for something inside a room.
D)The student is under the classroom.Under would place the student below the room, which is the opposite of sitting inside it.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is in the classroom. Prepositions of place are where Spanish and English part company, since Spanish uses a single preposition for most of these relations. Practising them in the classroom the student already knows makes the difference between in, on and at concrete, and this is the foundation the giving-directions week of the fourth period builds on directly.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta 6 · D4Bloom: Apply
Using the articles a and an correctly with two school objects.
You want to say that you have a ruler and an eraser. Which sentence is right?
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Respuesta correcta: B)I have a ruler and an eraser.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is I have a ruler and an eraser. Articles are a genuine blocker for Grade 6 writers, and the vowel/consonant rule is the part they most often get wrong by looking at the spelling instead of the sound. Using two objects from their own pencil case makes the choice matter, and the same rule governs an hour and a university, where the exceptions surface later in the year.
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Respuesta correcta: B)I have a ruler and an eraser.
A)I have a ruler and a eraser.An eraser begins with a vowel sound, so it takes an and never a in English.
B)I have a ruler and an eraser.An eraser begins with a vowel sound, so it takes an, and a ruler begins with a consonant sound, so it takes a.
C)I have an ruler and a eraser.The article follows the sound rather than the letter: ruler starts with a consonant sound and eraser with a vowel sound.
D)I have the ruler and the eraser.The points at a particular item already known to both speakers, which is not what you mean when listing your own things.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is I have a ruler and an eraser. Articles are a genuine blocker for Grade 6 writers, and the vowel/consonant rule is the part they most often get wrong by looking at the spelling instead of the sound. Using two objects from their own pencil case makes the choice matter, and the same rule governs an hour and a university, where the exceptions surface later in the year.
Pregunta 7
Pregunta 7 · D4Bloom: Apply
Pairing a colour with the school object it usually belongs to.
Which of these names a school object that is normally purple?
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Respuesta correcta: C)a binder
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is a binder. Colours are first-period vocabulary that students meet without ever being taught a system for them, and pairing a colour with the object it usually belongs to is how the word becomes useful. Anchoring a colour to a concrete school item also prepares the descriptive work of the second period, where physical appearance is written in full sentences.
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Respuesta correcta: C)a binder
A)a markerMarkers come in many colours, and purple is not the one that identifies a marker, so this does not pin the answer down.
B)an eraserErasers are commonly pink, white or blue, so purple is not the typical colour of this object.
C)a binderA binder, meaning the cardboard folder that holds notebooks, is commonly purple, which is the pairing this question points to.
D)a backpackBackpacks are usually blue, black or red, so purple is not the colour that identifies this object.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is a binder. Colours are first-period vocabulary that students meet without ever being taught a system for them, and pairing a colour with the object it usually belongs to is how the word becomes useful. Anchoring a colour to a concrete school item also prepares the descriptive work of the second period, where physical appearance is written in full sentences.
Pregunta 8
Pregunta 8 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Comparing two lines of a school timetable.
Read: "On Mondays we have math, English, science and art. On Wednesdays we have math, English, music and sport." What subject happens on both days?
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Respuesta correcta: C)math
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is math. Comparing two short lists and finding what they have in common is the core comprehension skill, and it is exactly what a student does when a teacher announces a schedule change. Doing it in English with subjects the student already knows removes the content barrier, so all the effort goes into the reading operation itself.
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Respuesta correcta: C)math
A)musicMusic is listed only on Wednesday, so it is not a subject the two days share.
B)artArt is listed only on Monday, so it is not a subject the two days share.
C)mathMath is listed on Monday and again on Wednesday, so it is the subject that happens on both days.
D)sportSport is listed only on Wednesday, so it is not a subject the two days share.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is math. Comparing two short lists and finding what they have in common is the core comprehension skill, and it is exactly what a student does when a teacher announces a schedule change. Doing it in English with subjects the student already knows removes the content barrier, so all the effort goes into the reading operation itself.
Pregunta 9
Pregunta 9 · D4Bloom: Evaluate
Judging a student's answer to a question from a teacher.
The teacher asks: "How many students are there in your course?" A student answers: "There are thirty students and the teacher is nice." What is wrong with the answer?
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Respuesta correcta: B)It does not answer the question that was asked.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is that it does not answer the question that was asked. Answering the question rather than talking near it is something exams test constantly and that students consistently underestimate. Showing that a second, entirely grammatical clause can still be a wrong answer teaches relevance as part of correctness, which is a distinction most Grade 6 materials never draw explicitly.
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Respuesta correcta: B)It does not answer the question that was asked.
A)It is too short to be understood.The answer is perfectly clear and long enough; the problem is not its length but that it does not answer the question that was asked.
B)It does not answer the question that was asked.The question asks how many students there are, and only the clause about thirty students addresses that; the comment about the teacher was never requested.
C)It repeats the question instead of answering it.The answer does not repeat the question at all, it adds a comment about the teacher that the question never invited.
D)It uses the wrong number word.Thirty is the correct name of the number, so the fault is the extra irrelevant clause and not the wording of the number itself.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is that it does not answer the question that was asked. Answering the question rather than talking near it is something exams test constantly and that students consistently underestimate. Showing that a second, entirely grammatical clause can still be a wrong answer teaches relevance as part of correctness, which is a distinction most Grade 6 materials never draw explicitly.
Pregunta 10
Pregunta 10 · D4Bloom: Evaluate
Judging which correction a student should make to a nearly correct sentence.
A student writes: "My friend is 12 years old." Which correction should the student make?
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Respuesta correcta: D)The sentence has no error.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is that the sentence has no error. Judging a sentence that is nearly right is the hardest kind of item at this level, because the student must know which parts are fine before they can see the part that is not. Distributing the errors across agreement, verb choice and plural marking makes each of them a separately diagnosable fault instead of one vague sense that something is off.
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Respuesta correcta: D)The sentence has no error.
A)My friend has 12 years.Age in English takes the verb to be rather than have, so this correction would still be wrong.
B)My friend are 12 years old.My friend is a third person singular subject, so it takes is and not the plural are.
C)My friend is 12 year old.After a number above one the noun takes the plural, so the wording should end with years old and not year old.
D)The sentence has no error.Age in English normally takes to be with a plural noun, and twelve above one already requires the plural, so the sentence is acceptable as written.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is that the sentence has no error. Judging a sentence that is nearly right is the hardest kind of item at this level, because the student must know which parts are fine before they can see the part that is not. Distributing the errors across agreement, verb choice and plural marking makes each of them a separately diagnosable fault instead of one vague sense that something is off.
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