I got your point and yet , I think it has been a great help from the authors herein that they have provided us worksheets bearing  designs that are  appropriate to our lesson . After all, it would be a great task if you �re going to design your own. Anyway, as an English teacher , you can easily draft the answers  if that is not included in the worksheet because you are expected that you have mastered it ever since. I am quite sure that it will not take much of your time.

 

In some way , it is not good to be so dependent to others although I do agree that answer key  must be provided on  case to case basis.

(I �re talking about complex ws, not something easy like"elementary" ws) 

 

Happy holidays for those who have a few days-off!!!

Elodie

 

I am a native speaker and should therefore know how to use English well. However like most busy teachers I am always very short of time. Of course I  grab a worksheet with eternal gratitude and use it without the proper time it requires for checking.  I �m only human.

 

To me an answer key gives me an idea what exactly the author was getting at because there can be different interpretations to questions.

 

Lately I have taken to putting the name and country of all authors on worksheets and I love saying to my students....." This work was made in Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, wherever."  I think they get a thrill to realise that they are part of a worldwide community and that some of the worksheets are made by teachers from their own country. Possibly it gives them a standard to aspire to.

 

Having this information is convenient as, if I find an author particularly good, I can return to their worksheets to get others which I  know for sure will work.

 

I also have downloaded work in the past and when I go to use it months down the track I have forgotten what one was supposed to do with it. Therefore I copy the instructions from the description. Unfortunately this all takes time which returns me to my first comment.....

 

"In a perfect world"