What's your favourite thing? #studentprojects

I really love lists.
So, when it comes to students' writing, it is of course a must to just make a list of all their work. This Padlet was made by one of my German classes. They are beginners, so their texts are pretty simple. But this activity can be done by all levels in all languages. The higher the level the more complicated the text.
They could write a more detailed description, how they acquired the particular object, what's the story behind it, how it made them feel. You can even change the subject and write about a person you admire, a holiday, a description of a place. The choices are endless.
This time we got pictures from Pixabay, but students can personalise by adding their own pictures or videos.
Padlet is a great site to post things. It allows you to make 9 free collections and after that you pay. But there are numerous apps of the same use like note.ly , pinup, evernote and many more.

And this is our masterpiece:

#onmyway

What I have been doing for years with my students ( and I personally do it on Instagram), is tell them to get pictures on their way to school or home and describe what they see. Maybe it's a beautiful car or a cute stray cat.
But it's a way for them to express themselves in English in writing or speaking.
Here is an example of  a story one of my students wrote (with a bit more imagination than usual) - pictures were taken with her mobile phone and GIF's were added from the Instagram app.

I woke up at 7.30 to go to school. I thought that it would be a boring day like every day. I went out from my house and I started walking to school.
Suddenly  I felt that something was following me. I turned around but I didn't see anything, so I kept walking. I arrived at the park where I usually wait for my friend and I heard strange sounds near me.
I asked a passer-by, but he didn't see anything.

The strange sounds went on and that moment three strong creatures appeared in front of me. They were neither animals or people. I was terrified. I tried to communicate with them and I tried to find out who they were and where they were from. I couldn't understand what they were saying, so I tried to find another way to communicate with them . Their language didn't look like a world's language. I started to think that they were aliens! I was scared, but very excited as well.

The time passed and when my friend arrived, I felt relieved and I asked her if she could see the aliens, that I was seeing, but she told me that she didn't see anything. I felt strange and I couldn't;dn'y understand what was going on. I explained to her what happened and she started to laugh.
Suddenly I heard my mum's voice! "Wake up! Time for school!"
I couldn't believe that it was just a  dream and nothing else