Dear Mrs Z

I cannot imagine taking a class in a language other than my primary language.  I commend my English Language Learners (ELL) for all of their extra hard work.  Wow – they amaze me!  The following examples really demonstrate the challenges they face in translating their work…

The Assignment:  “Dear Mrs Z” – What is your dream job?

“I write this letter to tell you about my dream job.  Everyone knows technology is developing. There are thousands of invention were invented every day. If you don’t know how to use the new machine or new technology, you will be  a backward one. One important, smart machine is computer.  They are upgrade and upgrade, until you don’t think that it is a machine.  That more likes a real person.  The computers can give the answer from the hardest problem for about half of second that you can’t do with by yourself or if you can do that, it may take hundreds of year. The computers also have a lot of useful information about every branch such as: space, music, Literature, math or so on. Website is a tool to show the information on the internet, like google’s or yahoo’s site.  They are big website. I was curious about how to make a website like that, so I find information about the language to design website like HTML, JavaScript, php, or so on. That why I choose to become a designer website of my dreaming job.”

“My dream job is a horse designer, because I love the horse design by Europe so much.  When I first saw the beautiful horse in a movie, I just can’t move my eyes from the design.  And I just started to find about the horse design.  They have used different style to make the horse, like the one first saw, they used the nature for theme.  They set each floor have some different flowers.  They used a best wood for making the stairway, and they used the brick for wall, and used nature stone for the bathtub. Also they have design garden around the horse. The whole design is around the nature, like you’re already into a forest of your own horse. I want to design one of my dream horses.  So I want to become a horse designer.  Sincere! Ivan.”