This document outlines the content and sub-topics covered in a Writing Skills course at Colegio Las Cumbres for senior year students. Over the course of the school year, students will work on describing people and places, writing letters, and writing short stories. Specific skills taught will include using personality and physical adjectives, senses and narrative techniques, connectors and linking words, openings and closings, formal and informal styles. Students will also learn how to develop plots in stories and write "for and against" essays using techniques for strong beginnings and endings.

1. Colegio Las Cumbres
Nivel Medio - secundaria@lascumbres.edu.ar
ASIGNATURA: Writing Skills
CURSO: Senior 1
PROFESOR/A: Seré, Eugenia
Contenido Nodal Sub-temas inlcuidos en el contenido nodal
Describing people through the use of personality and physical adjectives.
Describing places through the use of senses and narrative techniques.
Using connectors and linking words to create cohesion.
Using opening and closing remarks.
Writing letters of giving news, asking for or giving advice.
Formal and informal style in letters.
Using useful language for each type of letter.
Using linkers and set expressions.
Writing short stories.
Working on the development of a plot.
Working on beginnings and endings.
Vocabulary of ways of talking, walking, smiling, looking and making sounds.
Using linking words and phrases.
3ºTrimestre
Writing Stories and "For
and Against" Essays
Describing People and
Places
Esquema de Contenidos para el Período de Orientación, evaluación y promoción - cierre
Diciembre 2019
Writing Letters
1ºTrimestre2ºTrimestre
Writing "For and Against" Essays, taking into account the techniques for beginnings
and endings.