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This unit covered the Productive Skills (speaking and writing) and how these are important areas to help your students develop. As the teacher, creating the need and desire to use and understand vocabulary is an important part of lesson planning. Developing lessons which utilise language of interest and usefulness to your students will help in encouraging participation and motivation. There are two types of speaking activities - Accuracy and Fluency. In the former, the teacher should be controlling the language output (correcting errors) while in the latter, the focus should be on flow of conversation and creative use of language. The class dynamic has a lot to do with the levels of participation you will achieve - having the students work in groups or pairs can be successful as long as the content is carefully planned. Teaching writing skills is important also and each individual's level will differ depending on their experience with the English language and whether they use similar roman based characters in their native language writing system. Spelling and punctuation can be a difficult area and one of the best ways to foster improvement is to encourage the students to read from a wide array of sources diligently. Teaching productive skills can be managed in many ways using the ESA structure. Suggested activities include creative writing sessions, creative speaking activities, gap-fill exercises, communication games, debates, role-plays, simulations and communication drilling to name a few.
