Assignment 3

Dear students,
since you are all going to work as teachers, you are going to get a chance to affect the next few assignments and make them suit your own interests and purposes.

This is Assignment 3 (deadline May 9).

ASSIGNMENT 3: Outline a written proficiency assignment of your own.
Use Academic Writing if you want and try to come up with a task that would allow the person carrying out the task to practice crucial written communication skills at the university level. In other words, formulate a written proficiency assignment that you think would be suitable for your own level and your own purposes in studying English. Post the assignment, with detailed instructions, in your blog before May 9. Instructions may specify for instance number of words, text type, what to focus on, and so on.

This is Assignment 4 (deadline May 16)

ASSIGNMENT 4: Pick a friend's assignment, complete it and post it in your blog
Look through the blogs of your peers and find an assignment that you like. Complete the assignment and post it in your own blog before May 16.

This is Assignment 5 (deadline May 23) and ORAL PRESENTATION (May 27)

ASSIGNMENT 5: Assess your own work and the work of your peers
In your study groups, get together and discuss assignments 3 and 4. Talk about the choices you made when you formulated your own assignment, why you picked a certain assignment among the ones that your friends posted, and if you think that people who picked your assignment responded to your instructions the way you had expected. Write a short essay about/review of this exercise (the combination of assignments 3, 4 and 5) and post it in your blog before May 23.
Oral presentation: Take notes for an informal oral presentation of this group discussion in our final seminar on May 27.

Best,
Anna