ETA Sequoia Sanchini has already introduced many games to the class 10 English students, but her favorite among them so far was for the unit on describing places and giving directions. After learning and practicing directions in English, students had to direct their teacher, who was pretending to be a robot who didn’t know how to move, through the steps of navigating from one student to another or back to her desk. Mistakes became hilarious teachable moments, with Ms. Sanchini walking into walls, attempting to walk into desks, and even on a few occasions where students confused their left and right, out of the classroom entirely!

Much to Ms. Sanchini’s delight, a few of her classes included an extra feline student who was small enough to use to demonstrate prepositions, compliant enough to cuddle while students worked, and most enjoyably of all, enabled her to add another question to the game: Can you give me directions to the kitten?

Sequoia Sanchini is currently teaching at SMKN 2 Karanganyar.