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Teaching productive skills are speaking and writing and we use both of these skills to communicate. We can freely say that writing requiring a greater degree of accuracy and speaking requiring a greater degree of fluency. They are both very important and difference between them is that accuracy activities are concentrated on producing correct language, and fluency activities on allowing students to be creative in language. We have different accuracy (controlled and guided, creative communication) and creative speaking activities (engage, study, activate) in the classroom. Accuracy also included encouraging students to speak and techniques to encourage interaction, while on the other side we have guidelines for creative speaking activity. Writing skills include grammar, vocabulary, spelling, handwriting, layout and punctuation. Handwriting can be a challenge for students whose native language uses a different alphabetical system from English language. In spelling we have some difficulties because many words pronounced the same but they are written differently or some words are written the same but pronounced differently. Some languages also have completely different punctuation and rules than student’s first language and to help them to learn different layouts of writing, they have to practice with many different styles (to develop personal style). Teachers also should encourage student to be creative in writing. Games are also very conventional way of learning language and in the same time very fun and interesting for students. There are two kinds of games: competitive and co-operative.
