Creative Teacherette

Remember my blog post about creative writing activities , where your students have to connect the titles of their favorite songs into a story? Well, besides their favorite song titles you can use visual statements, which can be found everywhere on the internet.  Some of my favorite web - sites for this are: http://weheartit.com/ http://www.visualstatements.net/ http://pinterest.com/fashark/visual-statements/ http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/visual%20statement http://www.someecards.com/ You can also use these to teach your students how English language functions in terms of irony and sarcasm ( someecards ) . If they are longer you can tell them to write a story about what a visual statement is saying. Or you can make a bigger project where your students write their impressions about learning English on a poster and incorporate some visual statements in their stories, so you end up with a "picture story" of some sort. Another idea is to use vi