Creating stories with google drawings

Students are sometimes reluctant to create stories. Visual aids presented in a google drawing can be the solution to trigger many different ideas and situations which will help them find the way to tell an interesting story. The activity designed in this google drawing was intended to give students some common elements which had to be present in their different stories. As the task was thought for teenagers, the images and items which appear on it represent usual situations, activities and items this age group often experience and posses. I created this activity to help my 5 Adol students create stories and also work collaboratively. They received this drawing by e-mail and looked at it on their mobile phones in class. They worked in pairs exchanging ideas and creating the plot of the story. They were asked to write the story, individually, at home, and send it to me by e-mail.