Bilder & berättelser · Lärarnas Riksförbund. Jag vill att eleverna dröjer vid det dramatiska ögonblicket lite extra, saktar ner tiden och beskriver varje nyans av de känslor som kvinnnan på bilden kan tänkas gå igenom, liksom hur hennes kropp reagerar på hennes inre kaos. De får därför följande writing prompt: Try to put the woman’s feelings and thoughts as well as her physical reactions into writing. Use descriptive words and figurative language to “slow down time”. Det är förvisso inte helt enkelt, särskilt inte i Engelska 5, så för att visa ungefär hur det kan göras visar jag ett klipp ur filmen Genius där Colin Firth spelar en förläggare som läser upp ett avsnitt ur författaren Thomas Wolfes kommande roman.
Avsnittet handlar om att bli förälskad vid första ögonkastet; en kort sekund passerar i den yttre världen men en halv evighet i den inre. Jag har filmen på DVD så att vi kan se avsnittet med undertexter och det är nog det allra bästa, men kanske kan YouTube-klippet också fungera: Creative group writing. I have used this activity with children and adults from pre-intermediate level and up. At the end of this activity, students usually get a funny story written by at least seven students or pairs of students from their class. Preparation Make copies of the worksheet (or you could use a blank piece of paper, lined if possible). Prepare questions for the story (see procedure below). Procedure Tell the students that they are going to write a story together. When did you see the alien and where were you? After the students have completed the answer for the first question they fold the worksheet over so that their answer cannot be seen and then they pass it to the student/s on their right.
Who were you with? What were you doing? What did the alien look like? What did you do when you saw the alien? What happened in the end? The students shouldn't read what the previous student/s have written. Alternatives This activity can be used for many other topics. Meeting someone famous A great holiday Preparation. Random First Line Generator. Writing Prompts and Story Starters | Creative Writing Ideas. Writer’s block. Everybody’s been there. Especially students who don’t like to write. Writing Workshop in school can be a very difficult part of a student’s day. Some kids take naturally to the task of putting their thoughts to paper, but there are many who struggle. The hardest part is often getting ideas down in the first place. But think: the human brain is amazing. The brain can associate events, people, and concepts with a blend of imagery, sounds, emotions, descriptive words, tastes, impressions, and more. Story Starters Storyboard That has come up with a variety of story starters to help people get thinking about narratives.
The point of these images is to get you thinking, NOT necessarily to get you to write a story about the specific image. Here’s a picture. Sometimes that’s all somebody needs. Identify characters, if any. Identify setting, if any. Identify action, if any. Identify mood or emotional feel, if any. Identify items, if any. A picture is worth a thousand words? CristinaSkyBox: The Fairy Tale Re-Mix. AlicePopkorn via photopincc As much as creativity is necessary in learning, it is not realistic to expect learners, who have never had the opportunity to think for themselves, let alone be creative in the classroom, to produce creative work from one day to another.
Asking students to write creatively takes time. The three fairy tales which you can see on the left, are well known to many around the world and have become part of childhood references. Working individually or in pairs, learners begin by choosing the fairy tale they want to re-write. After choosing, they can read an example of a "fractured" fairy before developing their own. To help students, there are questions which lead them to think about the characters, the setting, whose point of view is going to be given as well as the plot. When students have completed their new twist of the fairy tale they have chosen, all they need to do is print, and by sticking their stories up around the classroom walls, it can be read by all. A short story. TED-Ed - “The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of... Secrets Writing Exercise -- Secrets to Find New Short Story Ideas. By Ginny Wiehardt This exercise is ideal for writing groups, but can be done with as few as two people.
By exchanging secrets, fiction writers are prompted to explore a topic they may not have considered otherwise. Difficulty: Average Time Required: 1-2 hours Here's How: Each writer should take out a piece of paper.Write down one secret and fold the paper up.Put all of the secrets in a hat, box, or other container.Each person draws a secret. (Draw again if you get your own.)Use the secret you receive as a jumping-off point for your short story.At the end of the session, or the next day, share both the short story and the secret that inspired it. Tips: Be creative in how you work with the secret.Have fun, both in picking a secret for the hat and in writing about the secret you choose.
What You Need: SecretsPaper PenContainer of some sort. A story. How to Write Better Short Stories. Short stories last for just a few pages. If masterfully written, these brief tales are as powerful as novels. They have the same key elements as full-length stories. But developing these common elements is a challenge for short story writers, who don’t have many pages to develop them. In a few lines, they must introduce the characters, describe the setting, set up the central conflict, advance the plot, and communicate the theme. Is it possible to incorporate all these elements into a short story?
O. Characters A character is a person or creature involved in a story’s plot. Here’s a tip: Choose one main character from your story. Central characters should have depth. Here’s a tip: Give your character a trait that will illustrate her personality. Setting Settings anchor the characters in time and place, often determining their clothing, customs, dialogue, and beliefs. Here’s a tip: Consider multiple senses when developing your setting. Conflict Plot Theme Here’s a tip: Don’t say it outright. How to Write a Short Story. A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night. Submitted 48 years 7 months ago by admin. This is an idea I learned when I first started teaching and still use to this day.
The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening and reading skills and also for practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary. The activity should work at most levels above elementary, as long as your students have some knowledge of past tenses, but it works best when they also know past continuous / progressive too. All you need to get things started is a sheet of plain paper for each pair of students. The listening part comes first: Ask the students to draw the face of a person in the top right-hand corner of the page. In this way they build up a character profile for the person they are going to write about. The writing part: Now dictate the following sentence to your students: 'It was a dark and stormy night and'. Follow up: Nik Peachey, Teacher, Trainer, Materials writer, British Council.
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