An idea to practise speaking and writing with young learners:

Reading one of the world's shortest stories from Augusto Monterroso I thought it would be a good beginning for an English class to practise speaking and writing with children.

When I awake the dinosaur was still there.

The idea is telling to the children this short story and make it longer all together, so the teacher will tell this story and each student has to tell something else, remember what their classmates have just told and to continue the story in the way they want. At the end we will have a very fun story, longer than in the beginning. To finish the activity they must remember the whole new story invented by the class and write it in their notebooks with a drawing.