(Enrique) Week 1: Process Writing

Good afternon everyone. My name is Enrique and I am going to explain which activities I usually use to improve my writing skill in English language.

First of all, writing may be considered as one of the most essential skills in English languge, since, from my point of view, it involves a wide range of  aspects of a language, such as grammar, vocabulary, formal expressions etc. That is why is important to practice this skill frequently, but no worries about that, because there are many ways to improve your writing skill in English.

Now, I am going to describe some tools which helped me to improve my wrting skill. The first one consists of watching a TV series, with subtitles in English. This first tool may be sound less academic than others, but this is the main reason why I consider it as the best one, since, while you are having fun, you are learning many expressions and vocabulary. My favourite one is called "Crazy ex-girlfriend".



















Another way to improve your writing skill in English, consists of "creating your own dictionary". This one is very useful in terms of taking notes of words or expressions unknown for you, which can be used later. Through this activity it is possible to acquire new formal expressions or certain words which may help you to make a good academic writing.

The last activity which will make you fell more comfortable during your writings is reading academic articles or books. Because, unconciously, you catch some structures of sentences, expressions. Also you learn new vocabulary while you are reading in English.

Finally, I put in practice all these activities, last year, during my Erasmus period. In fact, being so honest, these tools were very useful in order to make some essays properly which also help me to get a high mark. I highly recommend make the use of interactive activities to learn a language, thereby you avoid being bored while you are practising a languge skill.