Our last class was bittersweet. Due to the last few weeks of assignments and exams, we only had two students who were able to come in, which was unfortunate as the tasks were tailor-made for a group of 5-6 students. We made it work, nonetheless, with the fewer options in front of us, and giving up wasn’t one of them.
We prepared a sort of Olympic game for our class where students had to compete against each other in order to win titles at the award ceremony. We’ve included various games while keeping the focus on the vocabulary covered in the last two and a half months. We had “genres misspelling”, the classic “Hangman”, a game of “synonym/antonym”, a crossword puzzle with a mystery word, and last, but not least, charades. What I’ve witnessed that day was far more surprising than the other classes. First, one of our students came back after 2-3 weeks! It was nice to be able to see them one last time. Second, our students were helping each other in the given tasks! The lesson was meant to be very competitive, but it was camaraderie that won that day. I thought that was incredibly sweet.
We had a lot of fun with the activities we programmed, even with the limitations of Big Blue Button. The last ten weeks have been quite the roller coaster ride with a few ups and downs, but what a great ride it has been. Those ten classes were a great experience I will treasure forever. I’m incredibly saddened that it’s almost over, but good things have an end. It seems that great things end faster.
Thank you.
