The students receive the beginning of a text (e. g. the first sentences of a story or the opening paragraph of a newspaper article). Working individually, in pairs or groups of three, they are to write the rest of the text and clearly highlight the main part and the ending or summary. Subtitles should be added if the text is longer. In the end, they present their text versions. The presentation of these often very different versions is exciting, since they all emerged from a common beginning.
Variant 1: students receive the ending of a text and must write the beginning and main body of the text.
Variant 2: “sandwich stories”: students receive the beginning and the ending of a text (story, joke, factual document) and must invent/write the main body of the text.