Vanessa — Portofolio#2

Most students that are in the last year of school still do not know what to study at the university. All teenagers think that when they are choosing what to study at the university, they are making a choice on what they are going to do for the rest of their lives. Because of such belief, most of them are seriously in doubt to decide which course they want to pursue. Students are afraid to start a university course, hate it and quit the course, thinking about the time that was wasted. Silvia Helena is a geography teacher at Mobile. When she was 16 years old, she had no idea about what to take at the university. A year went by, and Silvia discovered her passion for geography by helping her friends to study for this subject and going to campus to analize the earth. At the same time, she did not want to do that (do that what?) because of the low salary involved in teaching.  Moreover, she did not know if this passion would dissapear after some years. For two months, she was trying to decide between taking a law course or a geography course. Afterwards, she decided to take geography only because her father had told her to do what she liked, and if she did not like the course, she could just quit, and after a while, start a new one. Silvia does not regret her choice and said that, day after day, she started to enjoy geography even more. It is normal to be in doubt about which course to take, but it is very important to search for courses to try to find more about them and choose the area without thinking of it as being for the rest of your life.

Vanessa,

You seem to have gotten a bit lost as you progressed in this writing. Your ideas did not seem to flow that naturally as your first piece. However, the results are not reproachable at all. The content is detailed (5/5), the structure a bit shaky (especially towards the end) but still very American life (4/5). The grammar (4/5) and the vocabulary (4 /5) could have been a bit more sophisticated, and the mechanics worked OK too (5/5).

 Total grade = 22 /25

Most of students that are in the last year of school still do not know what to study at the university.All the teenagers think that when they are choicing what to study at the university they are making a choice about what they are going to do for the rest of their lives.Because of that most of them are so in doubt to decide the course they want to do.Students are afraid to start doing a university course, rate it and quit the course, thinking about the time that was wasted.Silvia Helena is a geography teacher at Mobile and when she was 16 years old she had no idea what to do in the university.A year passed by and Silvia discovered her passion for geography by helping her friends to study this subject and going to campus to analize the solo.At the same time she did not want to do that because of the low salary in addition she did not know if this passion could dissapear after some years.For two months she was trying to decide between doing a law course or a geography course.Afterwards she decided to do geography only because her father told her to do what she likes and if she did not like the course she could just quit it so after some time start a new one.Silvia does not regret her choice and she said that day by day she started to enjoy even more her job.It is normal to be in doubt about what course to do but it is very important to search courses to try to find more about them and choose the course thinking of that this is for your hole life.