A group of ESOL students has written fantastic stories based on a wordless animation they watched - enjoy!

 

The Monster and the Boy

The boy heard a sound, it was a quiet sound and it wasn’t an owl or a tree or the wind.He wanted to know what it was, so he turned around. He saw a big leg, a green fat tummy and a hungry  face. 

 “You are a monster!” Tom was so shocked because he thought monsters didn’t exist. He was so scared and he didn’t know what to do so he held a stick like a sword and he didn’t run away. He didn’t know why he didn’t run. Tom looked at his marshmallow that was on the stick. The monster saw the marshmallow. The monster’s eyes were very friendly. It didn’t look like it was going to attack Tom. The monster looked at the marshmallow and he stretched his long tongue and he quickly snatched  the marshmallow and ate it. Suddenly  the monster’s eyes were cute again, so Tom gave more marshmallow  to the monster, until they were gone. 

 The marshmallow ran out and Tom fell. The monster was begging but Tom was so quiet so the monster’s eyes changed. Tom thought that monster was angry and he was! It looked like an angry cat. He opened his mouth and Tom saw a row of big, shiny teeth. Finally Tom ran towards the forest, but the monster caught up to him. Tom fell down. The monster saw a pillow that looked like a marshmallow, A GIANT ONE. The monster snatched the pillow and got closer to the fire. He roasted the pillow that looked like a marshmallow. The marshmallow burned. The monster’s eyes became big. He was super sad and he frowned looking at the sky.

 By Elly Lee

Illustration by Elly Lee

 The Monster Eating Marshmallows

 

There was a boy named Tom. He roasted a marshmallow,but a sea monster sneaked out of the water and grumbled quickly. It looked like a scary, huge lizard. There were sharp pointed teeth in its big mouth. The huge monster looked at that yummy food. It thought “If you don’t give me that food I’m going to kill you!”

The boy turned around and looked at the big googly eyes, its big huge feet, its huge mouth and long tail. The boy was so scared he jumped off the bench and said, “Ahh! “Why are you standing here behind my back!” Tom held up the stick like a sword. Tom looked at the monster. The monster looked at the yummy food. It acted like a giant cute dog. So Tom held a marshmallow and the monster put its tongue out and ate the food. Tom said, “Why do you steal my food? I will give you food, if you do a trick. Tom said “Great job! There is the marshmallow for you.” The monster rolled over and its tail wagged. Its eyes changed, they became friendly. When the marshmallow were all gone the monster got mad. The monster growled.

It showed its sharp pointed teeth and its eyes were narrow. Themonster opened his mouth and chased Tom. The monster’s pointyteeth shone in the moonlight and he roared. The monster kept chasing Tom and he tripped over a rock. So he threw a pillow to the monster. The monster thought it was a marshmallow. The monster roasted pillow but it burned. Tom said “Ahhhh”! And he ran away.

 

By Benjamin Lee

 

The Marshmallow Monster

 The water from the lake was calm and quiet .The fire was nice and warm.There were no friends nearby ,becauseTom liked some space. Suddenly there was a calm movement in the water. It just made a quiet sound. A round green head popped out of the water. A big slimy monster sneaked up to the nice kid who was roasting marshmallows.Suddenly the boy felt a movement in the air. He thought that it was a cat, so Tom turned around. In shock he sawa huge monster. 

 Tom thought, “OMG, is this a dream? No - run! Wait, the marshmallows, I have the marshmallow, maybe he likes those.” Tom threw the marshmallows into the monster’s mouth. The monster acted like a puppy. It rolled in the wet grass, stood on his tail and he jumped onto his feet. Now he wagged his tail slowly and looked expectantly at Tom.

 Tom threw more marshmallows, until they were gone. The monster waited, but he didn’t get anything. So the monster got mad. He had angry eyes. He growled. He had a mad face. His mouth had big shiny teeth. But then Tom ran and ran. He saw a pillow. The monster thought it was a big marshmallow. So Tom threw the marshmallow away. Tom ran.

 The monster got the pillow. The monster thought, “This is a big and delicious marshmallow!” He got close to the fire and with his own eyes he saw the pillow burn down into tiny little pieces.

 He felt a tear drop on his face. 

 By Gabriel Walfrido

 

The Night of the Monster

 A camper was roasting yummy s’mores at night in the woods. Those woods were safe - or were they? It was a very dark night, not even the moon was shining light. Something dangerous slowly emerged from the lake. First his top fins, next his ugly eyeballs and next his naked abs were showing. He was looking at the camper with his menacing eyeballs. The camper turned around slowly and he gasped. He looked at the monster’s razor sharp teeth.

 The camper was using his s’more as a sword and the creature stopped attacking, when he  looked at the marshmallow. The boy threw the marshmallow into the monster’s mouth and he loved it.  Suddenly the monster started acting like an overgrown dog. First he rolled over, then he stood on his tail. He grabbed the marshmallows with his super long frog-like tongue. Finally the camper got the last marshmallow out of his bag and the monster ate the camper’s hand - or did he? The camper pulled his hand out of the creature’s sticky, gooey, slimy mouth.

 All of a sudden the monster looked like a terrifying beast. He started growling at the boy and the boy decided to run for his life. The boy fell dramatically onto the grass, he thought, “Mummy! Please, don’t eat me! I can use the pillow as a shield to protect myself.” But the horrifying creature looked at the pillow and thought it was the biggest marshmallow ever. So the sea monster took the pillow, while the camper ran away into the woods. At last the monster sat near the fire and tried to roast the pillow, however the pillow burned to its death. The monster started crying like a baby.

 By Mateo