Creative Activity: Picture Composition

This imaginative writing exercise can be used in class or given as homework. Give the students a B5 sheet of paper with some lines or squiggles drawn at the top. The students must create their own scene and then write a sentence or short paragraph describing it.

Encourage good pictures, colors, cartoons… anything. Students love to draw!

The following examples were created by 1^st year high school students.

This section and its examples originally appeared in the 1990 edition of Communicative English: A Practical Guide.