文档介绍：Teaching Materials from
the Literature Department
of the British Council
Creative Ways
Starting to Teach Creative Writing in
The English Language Classroom
CREATIVE WAYS
Starting to Teach Creative Writing in
The English Language Classroom
This teaching pack is based on materials Following on from the broadcasts the British
developed by the British Council in Council and the BBC developed a website (at
co-operation with the BBC World Service. the time of going to press there was no
Creative Ways, a series of six radio permanent address for this site. If you cannot
programmes, was inspired by the British find it, please contact us for advice). On this
Council’s 15th Oxford Conference on Teaching site you can find tips and exercises on how to
Literature Overseas held in 2000. The theme start writing creatively.
of the conference was ‘From Critical Reading
In this pack you will find a tape of the
to Creative Writing’ and some of the key ideas
original programmes, and the teaching notes
that emerged were developed by the
written by Franz Andres Morrissey,
programme series. Creative Ways also
University of Berne, Switzerland. Franz is a
incorporated interviews with the academics
writer and a teacher of creative writing. He
and writers involved as well as many of the
was a participant at the 15th Oxford
conference participants. Although the main
Conference.
focus of the conference was on teaching
literature in an EFL or ESL context, we You can make further copies of any of the
believe the approaches can be used and materials included so long as they are not sold
adapted by all teachers. for profit.
The six programmes were broadcast round the Other packs in the series are: Novel Ways (on
world in 2000 and 2001. Each one suggested a teaching contemporary fiction) and Classic
different approach to using creative writing in Ways (on new approaches to canonical texts),
the classroom, as follows: based on the 14th and 16th Oxford
Confe