Practice of Written Skills

This course is designed to help students further develop the proper skills necessary to produce and understand the written word. Attention will be paid to style, grammatical proficiency, vocabulary, and narrative. Students will practice writing stories, reports, letters and other types of documents.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES  

1 Understand short and medium-length texts related to topics of general interest. 

2 Produce short personal texts related to the social and everyday environment. 

3 Know and use the main connectors of written discourse. 

4 Learn the basic rules of spell checking. 

 

UNIT 1: Texts with Instructions 

OBJECTIVES 

1. Understanding simple instructions 
2. Develop lists and instructions  

 

CONTENTS- UNIT 1 

Make lists 

Give orders and instructions 

Make requests  

Sequencing the information to do something 

Mandatory Obligation Structures  

Lexicon: gastronomy, home, free time... 

Technical lexicon: machines, medicine... 

 

UNIT 2: Short Texts 

OBJECTIVES  

1. Understand and write notes and short texts 

 

CONTENTS-UNIT 2  

Give orders and instructions 

Make requests 

Obligation Structures  

Present 

Imperative 

Lexicon: travel, studies, work, shows, clothing, quantities and measurements, usual actions 

Resources for Talking on the Phone 

 

UNIT 3: Personal and professional correspondence 

OBJECTIVES  

1. Understand and produce texts of a personal and professional nature 

 

CONTENTS- UNIT 3 

Organize the information in a personal writing.  

Organize information in a formal writing  

Express sensations and feelings  

Formal Structures in Personal and Professional Letters  

Discursive connectors  

Lexicon: personal relationships, work, hobbies, studies... 

The Language of Text Messaging: Abbreviations 

 

UNIT 4: Informative texts 

OBJECTIVES  

1. Understand and produce informative texts 

 

CONTENTS- UNIT 4 

Give, summarize, expand the information... 

Informational Text Bookmarks  

Storytelling Resources  

General Use of Verb Tenses  

Lexicon: current affairs, media 

 

UNIT 5: Descriptive texts  

OBJECTIVES  

1. Understand and produce descriptive texts 

 

CONTENTS-UNIT 5 

Describe people, places, events... 

Descriptive Text Markers Uses of Being and Being Times of the Past 

Lexicon: adjectives for description 

 

UNIT 6: Spelling rules  

OBJECTIVES  

1. Know the main spelling rules 

 

CONTENTS- UNIT 6 

Learn the rules of spelling 

Accentuation rules  

Punctuation rules  

Spelling problems 

Lexicon: derived from texts 

 

UNIT 7: Integration of skills  

OBJECTIVES  

1. Taking notes from an oral speech or written text  
2. Summarizing and expanding texts 

 

CONTENTS- UNIT 7 

Combining skills to improve communication  

Reproducing information: summarizing, expanding... 

Oral discourse structures and structures of the Written speech 

Lexicon: derived from texts