Tras haber realizado una primera incursión en contar historias a través de las mini sagas ( 50-word stories), se propuso al alumnado de B2.1 mejorar en su uso de los tiempos narrativos y fomentar su creatividad.

En pequeños grupos, construyeron una historia corta a partir de unas preguntas basadas en el relato corto “ A very Old Man with Enormous Wings” de Gabriel García Márquez. En este punto, el alumnado desconocía el texto fuente, de forma que su producción fuera genuina y realizada en el tiempo de clase.

Esperamos disfruten de estos cuatro ejemplos.

Dark Rain

It had been raining for ten years in a beautiful small Transilvanian
village, where Paul lived. Suddenly, when he was watering his cactus,
he saw a weird silhouette in the sky. Surprisingly, it was an old man
with black wings, he was so amazed that he fainted. When he came
round, he ran quickly to his bedroom, where his wife was, and he
explained what had happened. Marta´s answer was if he had been
drinking again.
When he said to his neighbours what had happened, they thought
that it was an angel, but the priest said that it was a demon because
he had black wings, so everyone picked up their torches up and
tridents up to hunt him. Some days later they found him. Then, Paul
and Silvia kept the demon in a garlic circle, so that he wouldn´t go
away. Suddenly, Paul had a brilliant idea: they would let people pay
25$ to see him.
It had passed a month since they haunted the demon and suddenly
it stopped raining. Paul was watering his cactus again, he looked at
the sky and saw the sun and the demon flying away.
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Strange Day
It was winter and it had been raining for three days. Paul was so
bored watching TV programs and plus he wanted to go running.
Suddenly, on the path, Paul saw an old man collapsed on the ground.
Immediately, he was worried and got closer to help him. Two more
steps were enough for him not to believe what he was seeing. The
man had big white open wings! He ran away home and told
everything to his wife, Mary. She tried to keep calm and thought what
to do but Mary was really greedy and thought how they could earn
money with this strange creature.
In the same way, the people of the village found about the man with
wings, a supposed angel. They decided to go to church, to ask for
assistance to the priest. He didn’t think that man was an angel, due
to the fact that they don´t have gender.
Paul and Mary were determined to keep the man inside their house.
Also, the couple thought about charging people to see the creature.
He only stayed there about fifteen minutes. When the crowd was very
noisy, the man opened his eyes and, when he saw all the onlookers,
he escaped flying with his wings, so beautifully, that even people
wanted to catch him.
In that moment, Mary spilled her cup of tea on her knee and woke up
unexpectedly. All had been a dream so, she felt furious because she
wouldn´t earn that amount of money.
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Jessica
Noelia
David
Marian

WINGS OF HOPE

It had been raining for six days and suddenly, on the
seventh it stopped. Paul was leaving the hospital after
visiting his son who was very sick when he saw an old man
with wings for the first time.
Paul was astonished to see a winged man in front of him
but a few seconds later he felt a strange sensation of inner
peace.
When he arrived home and told his wife about his
mysterious encounter with the old man with wings, she
didn’t believe him and asked him if he had been drinking
again.
When the people of their village saw the man with wings,
there were totally opposite reactions, some people tried to
touch him while others were afraid.
Most people in the village believed that he was an angel
however the priest didn’t think he could be an angel
because he hadn’t done any miracle or anything
extraordinary.
Paul and his wife offered the old man to stay in the garage
of his house and that people who wanted to see him leave a
donation. They didn’t know that the angel would stay with
them until they had enough money for their son’s
operation.
The long-awaited day came and when Paul was driving
home with his recently operated son they saw the old man
fly away and the miracle was done.

Names: Esther, Irene, Juan Manuel and Míriam.

The Strange Village
One rainy morning I was with my friends hiking in the mountain
near the village where I live. One week ago, we had decided to
go camping together and we were really excited. While we were
walking I saw a squirrel and I wanted to take a photo, so I
decided to separate from the group. But, later I realized, I
didn’t know how to come back to the place where we were
staying. At that moment, I looked at the sky to see where I
was, when suddenly I saw a man with wings in the distance
that was flying to the village.
That night when I arrived home, I talked to my wife about what
I had seen and she told me that I was old enough to stop
cracking that kind of jokes. However, I was sure that I had
found an angel in the mountain.
Moreover, the villagers were disturbed about something
strange. In fact, they had seen the man with wings flying over
their houses. Most of them thought that he had been sent by
God to select the people who would go to heaven. Others had
been taking a lot of photos and recording videos with him, and
asking, where he had bought the costume.
Although the people were very happy, the priest didn’t believe
it, since the angel wasn’t beautiful and was very old. He wanted
to kill and burn the angel, because he was an impostor. Also,
the unbelievers wanted the same.
So, as fast as I could, I found the angel. my wife and I told him
the situation and we decided to keep him in our garage. But his
fans wanted to see it. Suddenly my wife thought about a
solution, she decided to charge 10€ per adults to see the man
with wings and children over 12 years old free. The money will
be donated to the unbelievers to leave the old angel in peace.

It was a very long day, but the plan was well thought out and
nobody killed the angel.
Finally, when the sunset came to our village, the old winged
man stood up and flew away saying goodbye.

Irene, Nerea, Adonay, Samuel y Paula