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I'm currently doing some N4 sample papers to prepare myself for the exams and
I came across this questions;

教室で先生が学生に話しています。学生は、工場で何を作っているときに、見学をしますか。

It's the second sentence which gets me. I pretty sure it means " What did the
students do when visiting the factory" , but the placement of '何' before the
use of the gerunds is stumping me a bit. If I were to say this phrase, I would
probably structure it as follows

"教室で先生が学生に話しています。学生は、工場で見学を作っているときに、何をしますか。"

Would this sentence make sense or am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance kind people!

よろしくお願いします！
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Sentence structure. 学生は、工場で何を作っているときに、見学をしますか。
> 学生は、工場で何を作っているときに、見学をしますか。

This 何 is the object of 作る, so the basic question here is "making what?"
rather than "doing what?" The subject of 見学をする is 学生, and the (implicit)
subject of 作っている is the workers of the factory.

Thus a literal translation would be "The students will visit (the factory)
when (the factory workers) are making _what_?" This should look a little
broken in English, so you can rephrase it to "What are they manufacturing
during our visit to the factory?"

Your attempt is semantically incorrect, but also note that 見学を作る makes no
sense in Japanese. Although you can say "to make a visit" in English, the verb
you need to use with 見学 is always する or 行う. English has many set phrases that
have "make" ("make a mistake", "make a complaint", "make a joke", etc), but
you have to be careful when you translate them into Japanese. See
[this](https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/42912/8629), too.
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