Download EX2-AL18` - CursoIngMed11-01

Antonio Pérez
C/ Margarita 12
13152 Malaga
(SPAIN)
John Smith
ELS English School
15, Green St.
55564 Boston
USA
14th October 2011
Dear Sir,
How are you? Finally I got round to answer your letter about the former English course in
Boston. I am sorry I could not answer you sooner, but I have been completely snowed under
since I got back to Spain.
Firstly, and according to your letter, I start expressing my satisfaction with the course, the
teachers and the rest of the ELS School staff. I have learnt a lot of English during the month I
have spent there.
However, there are some issues that could be improved. Please, read them carefully
because I believe that they could raise the course’s satisfaction bar if you took my pieces of
advice into account.
On the one hand, there were too much people in each class. Being a group of ten people it
was difficult to participate in the speech; even we couldn’t speak too much if we wanted to let
our colleges talk about every topic. In addition, we was spending a long time to correct the
homework and answer every question. That’s why, in my opinion, I recommend you to reduce
the number of students per class to 6.
On the other hand, the schedules should be modified. We joined the course form eight to
fourteen hours without any period off. Six continuous hours in the class was not only tiring but
also didn’t let us to take a cup of coffee- which was completely necessary to keep us awake.
Then, I suggest you to introduce a break of five minutes every hour and a break of half an hour
at eleven o’clock every day.
To sum up, the course has been useful and intensive, but if the schedule and the number of
people per class could be modified the learning improvements would be considerable.
I will be happy to offer you any additional advice you may required, please don’t hesitate to
ask me.
Best regards,
Antonio
The student’s profile matches the level 2 for the following reasons:
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There are basic grammar mistakes such as the frequent incorrect use of verb tenses,
subject-verb agreement, plural of nouns, much/many for countable/uncountable
nouns...
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There are some inaccuracies in the use of vocabulary.
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There are some incoherences due to lack of enough linguistic resources.
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There’s a need to use more sophisticated vocabulary and grammatical structures in an
accurate way.
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The content is relevant and the text is well structured. The type of text is appropriate.
The register is not always correct.
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The task was just barely achieved. There’s not enough sound argumentation. There’s
more narration of facts, which is a level 2 type of task.