Proficiency exercise 5

I have chosen to create an assignment that I wanted to do myself. I think it is a good way of designing an assignment because it gives meaning to the assignment. The assignment should not be without a purpose and I think that the situation which is described in the assignment could be realty. Therefore, to be able to write and formulate a formal letter in English is very important when I am going to be a teacher.

I had two responses to my assignment and they were both very interesting to read. They have both focused on the class and the pupils benefit of this trip and that was very good. What they also had focused on was their own benefits as English teacher and how this trip could be a very good experience for them. I had not thought about this aspect so I was very pleased to read the assignments. I think they both had done a splendid job with my assignment.

I choose to write about a favourite animal because I just love animals! I wanted to write about my dog but since I had already written about him I choose to write about another animal that I like. Since me having the course Culture, Media and Society I am working with a project about Australians animals and therefore I choose one of these animals. I think it was an interesting assignment to do because I should also look for some information about the animal on the Internet and use that in my assignment. This made me learn some more about the animal and as a result of this my essay got richer and more interesting to read.