Just a fun, engaging creative writing lesson that, in my experience, has really captivated students. It doesn’t necessarily teach anything new, so you can adapt this as you want. The selling point of this is its multi-sensory appeal - with intense and memorable visuals and even WW1 artillery playing in the background. It’s just an immersive way to stimulate creative writing and presents like a graphic novel almost. You don’t even need to be reading the book to use this - it can be used as a one off if you wish! I think it’s good for low to mid ability, but again you can tweak as you like to suit your learners. Used it successfully with my EAL class recently! Hope you enjoy!

These lessons build skills for writing (and reading) and develop pupils awareness of how audience and text type dramatically impact style, register, tone and content. A series of lessons I used as part of a Non-Fiction unit. Geared for more able, but can be adapted. Lessons are particularly focused around using grammar for effect and stylistic conventions. However, the lessons do also develop reading skills parallel to writing. The final assessment is taken from a text in Cambridge English Checkpoint Stage 9 (Cambridge Curriculum). You can discard this, use your own text, or even allow the pupils freedom to invent or base their travel writing from a text of their choice or their own experiences. I had them base their travel writing on an informative text of a place, so they could also exercise their summarizing skills and deciding what content is relevant/most effective for the task.

This is an 8 lesson unit designed for EAL students to explore a range of non-fiction forms as well as different cultures. It was designed to accommodate EAL students whom I taught in Asia. A wide range of activities such as blogging, writing for a website, vlogging and infographic creation. The unit culminates with a Speaking & Listening Dragon’s Den style presentation, where groups of students design a sauce for a culture of their choice and pitch it. Can be easily adapted to suit your local context/students, or fit into a larger Non-Fiction Unit. Contains all the necessary resources. Hope you have as much fun with this as I did!