Hello and welcome to module 3.
Writing, how to prepare for it effectively and efficiently.
Hey! You're approaching the mid point of this course.
Are you enjoying it?
I hope it is helping you.
As we said before please don't worry
if you need to go back and repeat parts of the course.
This is normal and natural
because we all learn at different speeds and this will help you
to consolidate what you see in this course.
So, in this module are going to look at the part of the exam
where you have to produce written conversations.
OK, I know what you thinking.
Oh no, not production!
A lot of students find productive skills, writing and speaking,
considerably harder than receptive skills, reading and listening.
But don't worry, this is normal.
We're going to help you.
There's two key parts to this process, OK?
Firstly, identifying the main characteristics of a good composition
which will help you when you come to write your own.
And the other side of the coin is to identify the frequent mistakes.
If you understand the kinds of mistakes
that you typically make when you write.
Then, in an exam context, you can be careful of these mistakes,
and make sure you don't repeat them.
What you need to understand here
is that written English is not the same as spoken English.
So we need to highlight the main differences
and once again we need to establish a process.
A set of steps or strategy
you can apply successfully in an exam context.
These will be the things you do before writing,
while writing, and after writing.
Once again, with time this process
will begin to feel natural and become automatic.
But to begin with there might be something
that requires effort on your part.
OK, how to identify frequent mistakes?
We need to reflect on what you may be doing wrong.
And then you need to learn to apply this understanding to your writing.
We are going to see some compositions here
which might pass the English B1-level exam
and decide which we think would pass and which we think would not pass.
And this will help us to become sensitive to the types of mistakes
that students just like you make in these sorts of exams. OK?
Then you are going to take a test to see
how well you find encountering these sorts of mistakes.
This is a wonderful kind of practice activity for you
and a final module activity really make you active
and makes you the protagonist of this whole learning course, OK?
It is going to enable you to read some compositions
and assess them using a rubric similar
to that an examiner would use to evaluate your paper.
This is obviously incredibly useful
because if you know what they're expecting
then you can better prepare your written compositions, OK?
We are going to have another peer-to-peer format activity,
because as we said before,
this is very valuable and it will keep you in contact
with your peers on this course
and you can see that you're progressing satisfactorily, OK?
So good luck!
Are you ready for the challenge?