Productive skills: speaking and writing

Aproaches to speaking
1. Organize their speaking lessons
  1. Some suggestions
    1. -Topic and cues -Structuring talk - Avoiding the talk-talk loop -open questions -Playing devil´s advocate
2. Ways to start a lively discussion
  1. Activities that encourage students to speak
3. Fluency and confidence aims
  1. A few keys to getting a good discussion going
    1. Frame the discussion well
    2. Preparation time
    3. Don't interrupt the flow
    4. Specific problems are more productive than general issues
    5. Roles card
    6. Break the rules
4. Using material to generate discussion
5. Devising a discussion activity
Communicative activities
1. Repeating sentences
2. Doing oral grammar drills
3. Improvising a conversation
Role play
1. Writing role cards
2. Adding a missing role card
Fluency, accuracy and communication
Different kinds of speaking
Approaches to writing
Responses to writing
1. Successful writing
  1. Audience and purpose
  2. Setting relevant writing tasks
2. Reflecting real-life writing purposes in the classroom
3. Marking
4. Correction codes
5. Evaluating written work
  1. Problems:
    1. Orthography
    2. Punctuation
    3. spelling
    4. Layout
    5. Language

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