Introductory Activity :

1. Teacher to discuss concepts and structure of stories - can use examples of previous texts shown to students - beginning, middle and an end.
2. Introduce that students are to write a creative story with a twist! Show them the 4 containers, one with each card placed in to it (eg container 1 holds all the cards with the location of the student's story in it etc).

Body :

3. Students to come up and randomly pick a card from each of the containers, therefore been given a location for their story, an object that must be included in their story, a character that they can name if they like, but has to be in the story somehow and a natural disaster that can be part of their complication.
4. Give students an example of what it might be like eg: A BALLERINA(character) was going to get her PIANO (object) fixed when a CYCLONE (natural disaster) hit and sent her to the HOSPITAL (location). Obviously, students stories will be expected to be more elaborate and exciting!
5. Students to go and write their stories.

Conclusion Activity :

6. Allow students to be able to edit their stories once they have finished - spelling mistakes, punctuation etc
7. Get some of your students to read out their stories to the rest of the class - You often get the most crazy and far fetched situations, but it is great for a laugh! Students that I have had in the past have loved doing this activity and have begged to do it for more than one occassion - it is an easy solution for those students who have difficulty trying to get a complication, character or location for their creative writing story and enables students to produce amazing work!

Evaluation Activity :

Can use a checklist to see how the students are going with certain aspects of story writing - if they are able to create a structured story or not. Also allows you to see if they are having trouble with their English skills and see if they have been listening to you about natural disasters and their effects.