This document summarizes common mistakes and deficiencies found in instructions for educational exercises. It provides examples of vague, missing, or unnecessary information in instructions for filling in blanks, answering questions, making sentences, and finding antonyms. The examples demonstrate that instructions need to be clear, complete, and tailored to any associated text to ensure students understand what is being asked of them.

1. MISTAKES AND DEFICIENCIES OF
INSTRUCTIONS

2. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITH
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES (my, your, his, her, its, our, your
their)
• 1.I am an engineer and this is………… computer.
• 2.He İS Japan. ……… name is Takashi.
• 3.She is lecturer and these are …….. Students.
• Red writing in instruction is unnecessary. If these questions are
asked, student knows subject.

3. FILL IN THE BLANKS *
• 1.I was having breakfast when you
…………..(telephone)
• 2.My father ………(meet) my mother when he
……. (work) in Istanbul.
• *’WITH SUITABLE CORRECT FORM’ must be after ‘*’to be more
explanatory

4. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
• 1.Where dos tom live?
• 2.Are Tom and Huck friends?
• The instruction is deficient.
• True:ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ACCORDING TO TEXT.

5. MAKE SENTENCES USING THE WORDS
• 1.(weak/lift/she/it/is/too/to)
• ………………………………………..
• 2.(him/to/it/cold/for/drink/is/too)
• …………………………………………………
• The instruction is deficient. Whether the word is squentially or not
should be given.

6. WRITE THE ANTONYM OF WORDS
• 1.slowly ……………
• 2.hate ……………
• 3.happy …………...
• The instruction is not suitable to understand for students.Because
questions is belong to a text.
• True:Find the opposite of the following words in the text.