Creative Output: Activities for Teaching Speaking and Writing - Paperback

by Gerhard Erasmus (Author), Hall Houston (Author)

Creative Output is a teacher's resource book for the most challenging stage of an ESL/EFL lesson - the production stage. Within these pages, you will find a diverse range of speaking and writing activities for fluency practice. In addition, this book describes the essential qualities of effective speaking and writing activities and shows how they fit into a successful lesson. ----- "This book is truly a must-have for any language teachers keen on fostering spoken and written fluency in a fun and engaging way across the whole age and ability spectrum. This little masterpiece offers a wide range of ingenious low prep / high impact tasks that fuel creativity whilst challenging the learner in a principled way. Part A, in which the authors discuss their sound pedagogic approach to promoting creative output in the oral and written medium, is a real gem of wisdom and clarity which pre-service and novice teachers will particularly benefit from. I strongly recommend this book." - Gianfranco Conti, PhD. co-author of the bestselling book 'The Language Teacher toolkit', winner of the 2015 TES best resource contributor award, founder of www.language-gym.com, and former Oxford University researcher

Author Biography

Gerhard Erasmus has a PGCE, Cambridge Delta and MSc Education. His main area of interest and experience is in teacher training and teacher development. He has managed and trained teachers both as a consultant and as Director of Studies of a language school in Taiwan. He has written materials for a variety of exams and teaching contexts and is actively invoved in training and workshops for teacher development and assessment. This is his second project with Hall Houston. Hall Houston has a Master's degree from The University of Texas at Austin. He has produced several ELT books, including The Creative Classroom, Provoking Thought, and The ELT Daily Journal. He is a Cambridge English teacher trainer and presenter. He currently teaches at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences in Taiwan.