Writing Challenge #12: My Dream English School

dream school

A few months ago we had fun building our dream clubhouse. The writers were so creative I thought it would be fun to build our dream English school.

Are you currently attending an English school? Have you attended one in the past? Think about what you liked and what you didn't like. What would you do differently if you owned the school? What would your English school look like if you had all of the money in the world? How would it operate? This school could open in the future, when technology and travel were even more advanced than they are today. Here are some things to think about:

The teachers
The lessons
The location
The curriculum
The hours
The extra curricular activities
The subject matter
The technology
The class size
The class length
The food
The rules
The class demographics
The fee
The appearance

Your task:
1. Create a post on your own MyEC blog called "Writing Challenge #12: My Dream English School" (Thank you to last month's participants for starting this submission trend! It was a great idea to have the stories on your blogs instead of in the comments.). At the end of your post write this question for readers: "Would you go to my school? Why or why not?"
2. Come back to this page and provide a link to your dream school post in the comment section. (Click on the icon that looks like a chain. Insert the url from your own blog post. Let me know if you have any problems.)
3. Visit other "Dream School" posts by members and answer their question: Would you go to their school? Why or why not?

My Example:

My dream English school would be located in New Mexico. I have never been to New Mexico, but I hear it is an inspiring place for writers. There would be fresh coffee beans in each classroom (and a place to store chocolate). The teachers would be allowed to wear jeans to school. Each class would have a maximum of six students and we would all sit on bean bag chairs near a big window. Much of the classroom work would take place outside of the classroom, in local art galleries, cafes, and parks. School would start around ten in the morning and end around two. Students would take turns bringing in food from their native countries to share for lunch and snack time. Yum! We wouldn't use many textbooks, but we would do lots of reading, writing, and sharing together. Once a week we would Skype with another English class from a different part of the world.

Would you come to my school? Why or why not?
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Note: I will *Feature the most popular "My Dream School" post on MyEC at the end of the challenge. Write your hearts out!

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Comment by Sayed on November 16, 2009 at 5:47pm: that's agood idea . I'll do my best to share your dream

Comment by Tara Benwell on November 4, 2009 at 6:00pm: Suela: Thank you so much for sharing the reasons for your common errors. This is very helpful for teachers and we all get to learn more about languages!

Comment by Suela on November 4, 2009 at 3:42pm: Dear Tara, Thanks for your comments. Coming from you I can consider it a praise.
As for the word ability, indeed it was a typo. It is my own language recorded in my memory, since ability in Portuguese is written habilidade , that starts with "H". A similar mistake I had made when I sent the message Phrasal verbs, just because in my language, we do not use PH, but F. Anyway I need to pay more attention in it.
Thanks for your kindness to correct my writing.
Suela

Comment by Chancelvy Ney Gautier LOUNGENGE on November 4, 2009 at 3:27pm: I agree and am very happy to be counted amongst your challengers.

Comment by Tara Benwell on November 4, 2009 at 1:27pm: Suela: Great writing! My comments are on your blog. I hope all of the writers will check out Suela's school. You will learn some important vocabulary. See the link above.

Comment by Tara Benwell on November 4, 2009 at 1:27pm: Tala: Yes, it's true we learn so much from our mistakes.

The first version of your first sentence used the wrong "witch". (which) In your corrected version you need "a" before quiet. (such a quiet place) . You fixed the parallel construction problem too (making them all "ing"). You could also change them to "study, focus, and relax".

Correction: Such a quiet place, which of course is far from the city, would help students study, focus, and relax.

The second sentence is almost correct. You fixed the preposition correctly (at), but you don't need "be + past participle" (be ended).

Correction: "start at 9:00 am and end at 1:00 pm".

Thanks for taking my second challenge, Tala!

Comment by tala on November 4, 2009 at 1:03pm: hi teacher thanks for finding out my errors
so may be the first sentence should be.....
so such quiet place that is far from the city would help students in studing ,focusing and relaxing.
and the second..
the school would start at 9:00 am and it would be ended at 1:00pm
is that right ?
i learn well from my fault
thanks a lot

Comment by Suela on November 4, 2009 at 12:27am: Hi, Tara.

It was a very good challenge. I wish you would come to my school, as well all my friends of English club.

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/writing-challenge-12-my-dream-3
Suela

Comment by Tara Benwell on November 3, 2009 at 9:58pm: Well, I did have a great time visiting Zahra's blog (as I always do). Please click on the link above (Get on the bus) and check it out! Don't forget your picnic basket.

Comment by Zahra on November 3, 2009 at 7:20pm: Hi dear Tara..
thanks a lot for your nice writing challenges...
here is my blog Get on the bus

i will be glad if you put your precious time to visit my blog....
have a great time:)