Oot o this Warld

Oot o this WarldWrite a story about aliens or space in Scots

Create Scots names for space travellers, alien life-forms, planets, gadgets and anything else you might need for your story.

• Write a short story in Scots about aliens. • Make a comic using Scots about aliens.

Hero

Give your hero a title - Captain or Commander.Use an ordinary first name – Jack or Sarah.Choose a positive Scots word for their surname.

Bonnie - BeautifulBraw - HandsomeGuid - GoodStrang - StrongGallus - Confident

Captain Jack Braw

Robot Sidekick

Choose a funny first name - Rusty or Minnie.

Put the word ‘Metal’ or ‘Tin’ or ‘Micro’ in front of…

Lugs - Ears

Mooth - Mouth

Heid - Head

Oxters - Armpits

Fernietickles - Freckles

Rusty Tin Heid

Mak up yer ain Planet

Choose a Scots word that would be a good name for a planet.

Think carefully about your choice.

The planet name you choose will also describe the aliens and other things on the planet.

Some planet names

Planet Bonnie (where everyone and everything is beautiful)

Planet Mingin (a very smelly place)

Planet Heelstergowdie(all upside down)

Planet Crabbit

Some mair planet words

Glaikit - Stupid

Nebbie - Nosey

Scunner - Fed up

Wheesht - Silent

Bogle - Ghost

Whit does yer planet look like?

Imagine the landscape on your alien planet.

Describe yer planet

Use Scots words to help you describe your planet.

cauld moontainsshooglie braejeelie lochbooncin stanesfleein groond

The Aliens

What do you want to call the aliens? Their name could be connected to their planet…

The Mingers fae Planet MinginThe Bonnie Bonnies fae Planet Bonnie

or a name to describe how they look….

The Doubleheids The Mucklemooths The Hunnertaes

The Doubleheids

Some mair ideas

You could use more of the Scots words you

know to create…

spaceship names

gadgets

evil human characters

evil alien characters

Short story

Captain Jack Braw telt Rusty Tin Heid tae wheesht. Captain Jack wis worried. His spaceship had crash landed on a planet and he didnae ken whit it wis cawed.

They stood aside a loch that wis filled wi ginger.

“Captain Jack, sir,” said Rusty. “Ma sensors are readin that it is Irn Bru.”“An Irn Bru Loch?” Jack said. “Whaur are we?”

Space Comic style

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