 We're now going to move on to the second of the productive skills which is writing, and again we'll look at the background too and create a typical lesson for a writing skills session. One of the things to be aware of in a writing skills lesson is that writing tends to be more formal than spoken English, so there will be some differences between the two, such as writing very often uses less contracted forms and so on, but having said that, there are many similarities between the two particular skills. So many of the considerations that we had for a speaking skills lesson will also apply here to a writing skills lesson. Within writing skills itself there are some sub skills that we may want to teach, and those sub skills could include but are not limited to handwriting, spelling and punctuation. Now handwriting tends to be a personal thing, but it is very important for our students to get handwriting practice to make sure that they are forming the letters correctly and so on and so forth. Spelling, obviously with the English language not being phonetic, spelling can often be a problem for all levels of student. We take a simple example, obviously the spelling differences between those two, even though they actually sound the same, bow and bow, the spelling is completely different. So this can often create problems for our students. Finally punctuation, we should be aware that many languages have a very different punctuation system to that of the English language, and some languages have no punctuation whatsoever. If you are teaching students with a different punctuation system or no punctuation, then obviously our system within the English language can be quite difficult. There are different types of writing that we can do within each of these particular skills, and they would be categorised as either situational or creative. A situational piece of writing refers to a different type of writing that might take place. For example, the way in which we write a postcard would probably not be the same as the way we would write a formal letter. Whereas in a creative situation, what we are actually doing is things like stories, the creation of dialogues, and quite possibly even the creation of poetry.