This worksheet supports students in planning a piece of creative writing or collecting information about characters through comprehension. There are prompts for students to begin to generate information about their character, as well as space for them to add extra information (whatever they feel is important). This worksheet works well when used alongside a story mountain.

Based on the BBC panel show, this resource is designed to develop fluency for ESL/EFL students. They use the blank cards to write true statements about themselves, then are each given a ‘lie card’. They must choose one at random and, when questioned, trick their fellow students into mistaking their truths for lies or vice versa.

A crime investigation game where students are shown one clue at a time and must use their logic and deduction skills to figure out who killed Santa. For ESL classes works well as a general fluency exercise or to focus on using modals for probability and speculation. It can be followed up by students writing similar puzzles for one another, as a creative writing exercise.

The resource contains two prompts for ghost stories set in London. Students have a word cloud, then sequential key words which they can use to reconstruct the ghost stories. This works well as a descriptive or atmospheric writing task. As a follow up students could research the real ghost stories about each location. If the activity is being used for English Language Learning, it is best as a group activity - divide the class in half, have each group work on a different story and then tell them to each other aurally.

Comprehension questions to accompany ‘The Shoes That Were Danced To Pieces’ by Philip Pullman (Grimm Tales). The questions are designed to support 11+ preparation but could be adapted into discussion questions for guided reading for younger students.

A set of 24 cards based around tourist attractions in London, which can be used to play games such as Taboo or Articulate.

A Halloween-themed worksheet to design a new kind of monster. This could be a starting point for a creative or descriptive writing task (it includes suggestions for follow-up writing tasks), and it also reviews synonyms and adjectives to describe appearance and personality.

This is a worksheet to generate Halloween-themed story ideas. Students roll a dice to randomly select six ‘ingredients’, then use these as inspiration for their piece of writing. The worksheet can be reused, as they can continue to generate different combinations of ingredients, and it works just as well for an oral storytelling activity.