After a restful break, ETA Kylie was ready to get her students’ adrenaline pumping! In Ibu Siska’s class, students reviewed the simple past tense and learned how to play Bang!, an English Language Club favorite. In Bang!, students must race to say the correct English response before their opponent. This friendly competition resulted in laughter and hilarious exclamations whenever someone was eliminated.

In Ibu Ika’s Advanced English Classes, Kylie wanted to challenge the students’ ability to think critically about word formation and phonics. The class warmed up by completing the Wordle—credit to The New York Times Games and Kyle’s parents and sister, who send the Wordle in her family group chat daily. Then, the classes worked in pairs to write partial anagrams. Using one word, “determination,” students wrote as many English words as possible: tree, ton, deter, minion, men, and more. Kylie was very impressed with some of the words students came up with!

In Ibu Lenny’s class, students started a unit on cooking and procedural texts. In their first lesson, students learned typical cooking vocabulary, such as “stove” and “stir.” In groups of four, students were given a set of flashcards with vocabulary words and another set with corresponding photos. The students created a scorecard and took turns reading the vocabulary aloud while the others in the group raced to tap the photo first. Students got into this game; it was a great way to practice speaking and listening!

Kylie Eiselstein is currently teaching at SMA Santo Paulus Pontianak, West Kalimantan.