CREATIVE WRITING

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.