Writing a short story

Title of activity: Writing a short story
Subject: Prose
Time of lessons: 2 periods (Approximately 60-80 minutes)




Objectives: To analyze student interests, aspirations and concerns
To see how well the students are able to produce their own short story
To estimate between the time and the length they can produced such a good
work

Learners: Intermediate students.

Room setup: In a classroom.

Material: Pictures (mainly taken from the newspapers), Blank papers with pen.

Activity: First, distribute the pictures. Ask the students to look at the picture and give them a few minutes to think of what they want to write.

Before that, a teacher must attract them with gifts if they could produce such a nice short story. They can include anything that they want as long as the story will be fascinating to be read and only be based from the pictures.

After giving such time for them to think for a while of what topics they want to write and after the teacher is offering the gifts, a teacher should at least give an hour and a half for them to write. While the students were making a story, a teacher should walk around them and see whether they really produce their own story. Perhaps some student might not understand the instruction given and as a teacher, explain to them in detail.. Remind the student that good students will have a really pleasant story line. If the students ask the teacher of what ever word that they could not find, try to help them.

The time passed. Collect all the work and prepare to read!


Assessment: The assessment will be based on the creativity and how well the students are able to produce sentences with a correct cohesion and coherent.

Teacher reflection: Most of the students were able to produce such a nice work even though there were not really good in producing a correct sentence. Perhaps, other teacher which mastered on grammar should be more alert of teaching and stressed on the vocabulary and grammar they used. Give another activity for them to master in grammar. I’m sure this will work!