This year my Spin 2 class have worked incredibly hard on their writing, and two weeks ago I gave them the chance to express themselves with a creative writing homework. They had to write a short story using some key words: pizza, Mexico and zombies. All of the stidents' were imaginative and used both the key words and language they have learnt this term. I was very impressed with how they expressed their ideas in a coherent manner and, most of all, made me laugh.
One story in particular stood out, and we used this as the basis for a longer story which we, as a class, added more detail and information to. All of the following ideas are those of the students, I just helped with the formatting. We hope you enjoy reading!
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One strange
winter´s day in a town called Keiblon in Mexico, when the sun was out but it
remained cold, a huge pizzeria called LOL's was about to open. LOL´s only sold
pizza and beer. The pizzeria was not like any other, because the chef was a
rollercoaster car and the waiters were zombies.
Here is the
menu of LOL’s:
Drinks
Beer with insects
Red water (maybe due to blood)
Eye juice (zumo de
ojos)
Pizza
Pizza with chocolate
Pizza with horse
Pizza with *ahem* people
Pizza with honey
Pizza with ice cream (AKA dessert)
There were
many different types of zombies that worked at LOL’s. There were big ones,
headless ones (they carried their heads in their hands), ones with rainbows
bursting from their fingers, small and fast ones, plus one zombie who had a ray
gun and didn´t like any of his workmates…
The
following day was the big opening day. It was full of people because a
journalist had interviewed the chef and some of the waiters on live television,
who had told everyone that famous people such as Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez
and Mark Zuckerberg would be going to the opening day.
It turned out that the food
was awful, so the zombies decided to put poison in it to make it delicious.
Everyone loved it. The most popular pizza was the one with chocolate, and not
as many people ordered the pizza with *ahem* people. The food was also very
cheap, which helped.
One of the
guests in the afternoon was very nosey and found their way into the kitchen.
They saw one of the zombies – the one with rainbows bursting from his fingers –
putting the poison into the food and got angry. They immediately called the
police, who came straight away.
Unfortunately
for all the guests and the police, the chef and the zombies heard the police
sirens and knew they were in trouble. All of the zombies (even the one with the
ray gun, who had been firing shots at his workmates all day) used the fact that
the chef was a rollercoaster car to escape, all of them jumping inside him
before speeding off, pushed by the big zombie.
None of the
guests could follow because the poison had made them sick, but thankfully none
of them died.
The
pizzeria LOL's remains closed to this day.
