So what should we do next?

There will be only two blog assignments after this. I know what I want to make the last assignment, but I want to think of something that will make you want to write comments on others' blog entries. You haven't left many comments on each others' blog entries even this week, although you did leave more comments this time than you have before.

This week I want you to write about how you think you might use English in the future. Will you use it for travel, at work, or on the Internet? What skills do you think you will need to use most? Listening, writing, speaking or reading? What kind of English will you have to use? Formal British, formal American, or some dialect? What special vocabulary do you think you will need to learn to use?

This may take some thinking, because most of you are just starting college, and not all of you have given much thought to what you will be doing after college, much less what kind of English you will be using then.

Some of you may be planning to study abroad. Tell us if you plan to go to an English speaking country, or if you expect to use English in other countries. Some of our students didn't expect to use English when they went to non-English speaking countries, but English is now the world's leading lingua franca, so more and more people are learning it.