We are getting some really good pieces of writng on here now....

...and I'd like to encourage you to read what your classmates have written, and to comment on their pieces.

There are good reasons for this: one is the theory of the Zone of Proximal Development in language learning theory. Essentially this means that you can only learn what you are ready to learn, which is to say things that are a little beyond your current level. Whether or not this is exactly true, like most things in education, hasn't been conclusively proved, but I know from my experience as a language learner and teacher that it's often easier to learn from other foreign speakers than from native speakers.

By reading your classmates' work you are going to a) see some interesting uses of language in terms of interesting words and expressions, ways of organising a piece of writing and uses of grammatical structures that you can use for yourself in future

and b) spot some mistakes that you probably make in your own writing, but don't always notice when you make them yourself.

So, read, and react- not just because your classmates are interesting people who write interesting things, but also to boost your learning this year!