I don't know why Francesca's postings don't seem to have a 'reply' button on them, Steve, can you help?

I don't know why Francesca's postings don't seem to have a 'reply' button on them, Steve, can you help? So I'm responding as a separate posting.
Exchanging between students is a great idea. If your priority is review of as many items as possible, then a possible alternative is to skip the sentence writing and just tell the pair of students who got the list to tick off all those whose meanings they remember, and ask the 'authors' about ones they didn't. Then they exchange the lists with any other pair who have finished working on the list they got ... and so on. That way they see a lot more lists and review more vocabulary.
Another tip: if you want them to write sentences, then ask them to write sentences each of which has to include at least TWO of the items on the grid. That means fewer sentences, so the activity moves a bit faster, and is also more challenging and fun.

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  1. Steven HerderNovember 8, 2017 at 10:27 PM

    Francesca Di Mambro - Are you able to check your settings in Google Community? It looks like you have disabled comments related to your posts.

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  2. Barbara Hoskins SakamotoNovember 9, 2017 at 12:03 AM

    I've just added a post to the help category about fixing the privacy settings to allow comments.

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  3. Steven HerderNovember 9, 2017 at 1:35 AM

    All Hail Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto - the holder and bearer/sharer of all useful knowledge!

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  4. Francesca Di MambroNovember 9, 2017 at 2:48 AM

    Thanks for flagging this up Penny. All the settings are anyone now but I think it's still not possible to reply. Hang on, I'll share a screenshot.

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  5. Francesca Di MambroNovember 9, 2017 at 2:49 AM

    And thanks for your suggestions Penny Ur. The activity would be more efficient that way I think.

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  6. Barbara Hoskins SakamotoNovember 9, 2017 at 2:56 AM

    Francesca Di Mambro I can reply to your comment, so that's working

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  7. Francesca Di MambroNovember 9, 2017 at 2:58 AM

    Thanks for your help!

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  8. Barbara Hoskins SakamotoNovember 9, 2017 at 3:00 AM

    'Francesca Di Mambro What I would suggest is that you copy your post, and then post again, being careful that you don't click on the "disable comments" button when you post. Then, go back and delete the old post. The "disable comments" button is in the menu at the top right of the post when you're writing it. I can't add an image here to show. If posting it again doesn't work, it means you didn't just disable comments on that post, and you'll have to go into your settings to make sure the setting for comments and +1 is also 'anyone'

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  9. Francesca Di MambroNovember 9, 2017 at 3:07 AM

    Thanks Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto. I've done that now and it seems to have worked. Yay!

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