CREATIVE WRITING FOR

LANGUAGE TEACHERS
BY
EXPLORING AND EXPERIENCING ENGLISH
LANGUAGE TEACHING
- EEELT
 How do you feel about writing?
• Write five sentences.
Being poetic using some possible stems/
starter sentences

• If I could live my life over again,

I’d talk less and love more.
I’d be less hygienic, etc.
Being poetic using some possible stems/
starter sentences

• I know
what…
where…
when…
how…
why…
who…

But I don’t know…

 Developing students’ awareness of textuality

• What makes a series of sentences or utterances a text?

1. They must make sense. (Sentences must be coherent.)

2. They must have a clear communicative purpose. (Function: to thank
someone)
3. They must be well-formed.

4. They must hang together. (They must be cohesive.)

5. They must be a recognizable text type: Ads, Fables, Letters, Notes,

Textbooks, Haikus, etc
OLD TUNES, NEW WORDS
(to the tune of Frere
Jacques)
Salt and pepper,
Salt and pepper
On my fries. On my fries.
Add a squeeze of lemon.
Add a squeeze of lemon.
Nice surprise. Nice surprise.
Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty
sat on a wall
Had a great fall
All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty t
Together again

Fatty the Banker.

Made cash on the side
Fatty the banker
Took folks for a ride.
All the poor women
And all the poor men
Lost all their savings
Again and again.
HAIKUS
What is a haiku poem?

A haiku poem is a syllabic

poem of three lines. The
first line must have 5
syllables, the second 7, and
the third 5.
Here's one example:

Sitting in the park

The blind man waiting
Alone, in the rain
an old pond . . .
a frog leaps in,
the sound of water
[Basho]
an empty passenger train
stands on a siding,
frost on all its windows
[Van den Heuvel]
Snow falling
on the empty parking-lot:
Christmas Eve . . .
[Eric W. Amann]
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50-WORD-STORIES (MINI-SAGAS)
Alone
Sometimes, when he was demanding, I longed for a life
alone. Everything changed, though, when I realised I was
losing him.

The end came quickly. He looked at me with pleading

eyes. I held him and made soothing noises.

Then, two last wags of his tail, and he slipped away

By JEAN LLOYD
Mr Mint is highly allergic to fur, so Mrs Mint keeps a
secret dog at work. Whenever Mr Mint is being
unreasonable and waspish, she smuggles the dog home in
her rucksack to moult and then Mr Mint is bedridden for
days. She feels it’s less hassle than divorcing him.

By Anna Doherty
USEFUL LINKS

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Creative_Writing_in_the_EFL_Classroom/Teaching_Ideas

https://thatisevil.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/i-didnt-do-my-homework-project-idea-not-only-for
-young-learners/

https://fiftywordstories.com/

https://creativitiesefl.wordpress.com/