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In this unit we learned about the productive skills while learning a new language: writing and speaking. Both very important and equally difficult for the students. We also learned the difference between accuracy and fluency, and how to improve this too skills, the first at the Study phase of our ESA class, and the second in the Activate phase. Both are them are very important and essential for a successful communication. We were given examples of speaking activities at the class, and how to try to improve the students talking time in both study and activate phase, in the first trying to be as accurate as possible, and in the second aiming for fluency and creativity in the usage of the language. We learned how writing sometimes is neglected by the students (who most of the times focus on speaking) and teachers (who sometimes are not willing to have silent times in the class and want to improve the talking time of students, letting writing for homework, that many times are not done), and how difficult for some students, specially those using different alphabets in their first language is to form the words in English. Also discussed how handwriting can be encouraged, how spelling is important and sometimes tricky in English as the language is not phonetic, and some words that are written in different form are spelled in the same way, and how we can promote the cure for those challenges given students plenty of reading so they can get exposed to the different words and pronunciation inside proper contexts. We also learned how to promote and encourage creative writing and how is important to give the students motivation to write, so they can produce texts that actually makes them proud.