ETA Matt Poissant was very inspired by seeing one of his co-teachers, Pak Jamasri, using an interactive English activity in his classroom when teaching about common irregular verbs. Pak Jam had the students move their desks to the side of the room and then form four lines, with one student seated behind the other, in the middle of the class. He explained to the students that he would show the students at the back of each line an irregular verb and they had to say the word to the student directly in front of them, who had to say it to the student directly in front of them, and so on until it reached the student in the front. The student in the front then had to run to the whiteboard and be the first one to write the word correctly to get a point for their team. Matt could see both Pak Jam and the students having a lot of fun playing this game. The previous week Matt had used a similar telephone activity in this class when he and Pak Jam were teaching about reservations except it involved students filling in missing pieces in a dialogue. It was very inspiring for Matt to see Pak Jam not only use the telephone activity without any prompting, but to see him also modify the activity to both make it his own and adjust it to the content.

Matt Poissant is currently teaching at MAN Demak, Central Java