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Unit 8 talks about the productive skills - writing and speaking. People engage in communication all the time and most students want to focus on their speaking. Even if that is the case, we should not ignore completely writing and teaching writing skills. Writing is a very important for and there is something even more important - taking notes. If students lack the necessary skill in writing they will lag behind others in the study activities and in taking notes or during dictations. This means that a base level of writing should be achieved by all students so they could progress in their language study. There are many great examples for accuracy and fluency when talking about speaking activities. For example accuracy activity can be drilling or model dialogues where fluency activities are more game related like role play or debate or something else. When focusing on the writing part spelling, handwriting and punctuation are important even though they are mostly left out for the student to develop on their own. Lack of these skills in each area can end up confusing the student in his language study and that can lead to massive mistakes in his speech too.
