• To what extent is the vocabulary appropriate and varied?

• To what extent are the grammatical structures varied?

• To what extent does the accuracy of the language contribute to effective communication?

• How relevant are the ideas to the task?

• To what extent are ideas developed?

• To what extent do the clarity and organization of ideas contribute to the successful delivery of the message?

• To what extent is the choice of text type appropriate to the task?

• To what extent are register and tone appropriate to the context, purpose and audience of the task? 

• To what extent does the response incorporate the conventions of the chosen text type?

Aug 1, 2021

When it comes to choosing what matters most in our lives, it may differ from one person to another. Between family, hometown, country, language, and species, some people may choose family, some may choose country, and so on. All that depends on one’s culture, experience, and perspectives. But then again, do we really have to choose between all those things? Well, here’s what I think of this matter.

So, what is it that I deem most important? If I truly have to choose, I would choose my family, as I deem them most important above all others. Then, you might be wondering if the other things mentioned above were not important to me. Well, you guess wrong. I deem my family as the most important thing in my life, which to an extent includes my hometown, country, language, and species. You may find yourself wondering again, “How so?”. Don’t fret, you’ll find out shortly.

First thing first, I want to talk about the reason why I chose family. My family is the only constant thing in my life, who I know would never abandon me. They’ve always been there for me, though they might not be the most perfect family there is. Keep in mind, when I say family, I’m talking about my parents only, as I don’t have any siblings and I’m not close with my other relatives. All my other relatives live in other cities across Java, while only my parents and I live in Jakarta.

From my explanation in the previous paragraph, I believe you might have drawn a conclusion about how my hometown is almost just as important as my parents. I’ve lived here my whole life with just my parents. Next, as for my country and language, they’re of course important to a certain extent. Indonesia and its native language are important to me because both my parents are Indonesian and we use Bahasa Indonesia for our daily communication. Although, my parents mostly speak in Javanese to themselves. Lastly, species is certainly important, as all of us are humans.

So, yes, my family is first and foremost to me and the other things that make us who we are, come close in second. But then again, we don’t really have to choose or rank which one is most important and which one is least important. As implied before, I believe that family, hometown, country, language, and species are correlated to each other, hence the insignificance of choosing.

August 3rd 2021

Ainaa Dewi Faadila

“Which matters most to you?  your family, your hometown, your country, your language, your species...  Or do you really have to choose?” today I read this tweet on twitter and it raised more questions than answers for me. However, reading this statement left a lot of thoughts on what I think matters in life, and I’m sharing it with my blog readers as maybe you’ll find your answer to that statement from reading this and you will be able to see for yourself what matters to you. 

The statement brought up family, hometown, country, language, and species. It would be hard to choose which one matters the most as all of them matter to me. My family is the people closest to me, the people who raised me, the people who constantly encourage me to grow, and the people I love most. My country is where I’ve been living my whole life, my country is where all the people I love belong, and my country has allowed me to be a part of a culture that has shaped a huge part of who I am today. Language is what allows me to connect with people, language is how I express myself and language has opened me to so many different cultures. My species is what I am, a human being, and other humans matter as we need each other to help and care for one another.

Reflecting on what those five things mean to me, made me realize that we don’t have to choose, at some point in our lives may be family is the most important or your country is more important but then we see how it changes every time, and it never sticks to only one being the most mattered one. You need language to be able to connect with the people in your country, your family, everyone else, and you need your family to even become human. All of those five things need each other, therefore, it all matters. 

From my previous points, I have emphasized how all those five things are meaningful in life, they can't work without the other and we require each and every one of them. All those things may have a different meaning to you and we don’t have to choose, what matters to everyone is different, but while we are here it is important to look back on those five things as it is a part of us.