Creative Output: Activities for Teaching Speaking and Writing

by Hall Houston, Gerhard Erasmus

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

153 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 22, 2017

About the author

Hall Houston currently teaches English in Taiwan. He is the author of several books about teaching ESL/EFL. He has a Master’s degree in Foreign Language Education from The University of Texas at Austin. His practical articles on language teaching have appeared in publications such as IH Journal, TESOL Connections, Modern English Teacher, and IATEFL Voices. He is a teacher trainer and presenter for Cambridge English and British Council.