Drawing from everyday examples, creative worksheets are prepared to enable students to better understand various figures of speech like puns, onomatopoeia, similes and metaphors. Introducing concepts through activities like comic strips, watching videos, newspaper articles and interactive sessions with authors helps sensitize students to interdisciplinary learning and enhance their listening, speaking, comprehension and writing skills. Creative writing exercises allow students to imagine scenarios and bring favorite stories to class to learn different styles of linguistic expression.

1. Drawing from everyday examples, creative
worksheets are prepared to enable the students
to better understand the various Figures of
Speech.
I’ve finally mustard up
PUNS the courage to
ketchup to you.
ONOMTOPOEIA
It was an emotional
wedding, even the
me
cake was in ‘tiers’.
The Gastronomic Gym My pillow is a soft cloud
SIMILE M
threw lightning
E
The thief was as sly as a
Pasta twirling and fox He is as fast as a T
His mouth was one
spinning, cheetah A huge metal factory!
peas do vertical P
jumps H
Mashed potatoes O
swimming. R
meat doing bench
press and pumps. ALLITERATION
Food has begun to Fred Flintstone Peter Parker Clark Kent
exercise
but it’s not in any
gym.
My brother said its
happening
right inside of him.

2. Introducing INTERJECTIONS
and DIRECT/INDIRECT SPEECH
by allowing students to create
their own comic strips..
an
an
As part of the set induction,
students are given empty comic
strips.
They are asked to fill in dialogues
accordingly. They automatically
use interjections along with
exclamation points.
The teacher then goes on to
explain how interjections
represent emotions.

3. Introducing
AUDIO – VISUAL
comprehensions
Inculcating
interdisciplinary
Students watch a Steve Job’s video learning – Students are
and answer a few questions. sensitized to the
American Civil War.
Using Audio
comprehension, tea
chers enhance the
students’ listening
skills
Students watch a small clip IMAGINE
of a movie and answer a set
of questions.
Thus testing their listening,
speaking, comprehension
and writing skills.
E.g. ‘Black Beauty’ by Anna
Sewell

4. Students cut out newspaper articles
and use them as comprehension
passages. The Teacher dictates a set
of questions which the students
answer with the help of this passage.

5. Reading sequences of
novels by Indian
authors in order to
acquaint the students
with different linguistic
styles. Students were
also exposed to an
interactive session with
the author.
A 1 2 3 4
B

6. Students are asked to explain and present a
LEARNING OF
few concepts to the class. Thus a teacher
CONCEPTS -Students are
gauges how much the students have picked
encouraged to be creative
up and the different ways that the topic
while providing their
could be interpreted.
information using mind
maps and other creative
ways.

7. Movie screening of
Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’
followed by a series of
questions. Students then
dramatize the play with a
competitive spirit.

8. Frost at Midnight – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9. Students imagined CREATIVE WRITING
themselves to be the
seagull and write their
story. Students are asked to bring their favourite
Stories to class and are asked to read aloud
various beginnings.
They are then thought the concept of Story
Writing .

10. A social visit to an old age home brings
out a side of a student, seldom witnessed
by a teacher… Teachers use this
opportunity to have a class activity
wherein students narrate their experiences
in the form of an essay.