Language Skills

Unit 6. Writing
TKT Preparation Course Module 1

T. César Cárdenas / March 2021

Writing involves …
• Producing letters.
• Producing words.
• Producing sentences.
• Producing texts.
• Knowledge of the world (Schemata)
 Writing: Key concepts

Formality Layout / Grammar

Text Types
(Register) Outline complexity
• Shopping • Formal • Greetings • Basic
list • Neutral • Headings • Intermediate
• Postcard • Informal • Main topic • Advanced
• Email • Main
• Diary discussion
• Stories • Conclusion
• Essays • Date
• etc
Writing Subkills
❖ Accuracy
❖ Communicating Ideas
Writing Subkills

• Spelling correctly.
• Forming letters correctly
• Joining letter.
Accuracy • Writing legibly
• Punctuating.
• Using correct layouts / outline.
• Choosing the right gramar and vocabulary.
• Joining sentences and paragraphs correctly.
Writing Subkills

Communicating Ideas

• Appropriate Style and register.

• Organising ideas in a helpful way.
• Using the features typical of the text we are writing.
• Joining words and sentences clearly.
(Cohesion and Coherence)
• Using appropriate functions to express our meaning:
❖ Narrating (telling a story), complaining, requesting,
thanking, summarising, or concluding.
Platform Exercise
Process Writing
Process Writing
 Writing: Key concepts

• Learners at primary level are not just learning how to write in

English, but also how to write letters and words.
• When writing encourage learners to think about what they are
writing and who they are writing to.
• Activities to help learners practice accuracy: gap-filling, sentence
transformation, divide texts into paragraphs, adding punctuation,
correct the errors, etc.
• Activities to help learners practice communication: story
completion, jumbled picture stories, writing birthday cards, writing
emails of invitation, etc.
• Work with models.