How to end the week on a high? Hold a Treasure Hunt of course!So that´s exactly what we did. After having spent the week looking at jobs, workplaces (including different types of shops), and how to give directions, we left the classroom and headed for the streets of Sucre.
Juan and I each took half the class out of the Fox Academy, with our set of English directions leading each group in opposite directions. The groups´task was to correctly follow the directions around the city, answering questions about shops and landmarks along the way, before finally heading towards the main Plaza... where the first group to find Rob and successfully recite the tongue twister was the winning team! My (mainly female) team´s progress was hampered by the various groups of teenage boys waging a guerilla water-bomb war against any similar-aged girl they spotted! Juan´s team managed to reach the the target first, and were busily tucking into a bag of chocolates when my group arrived. To console ourselves we tucked into the consolation bag of biscuits, as team mates (and Rob and I) attempted to dodge more flying water-filled grenades!
¿Como terminar la semana alegre? ¡Con una Caza de Tesoro por supuesto!
Entonces eso es exactamente lo que hicimos. Despues de una semana aprendiendo vocabulario como trabajos, lugares de trabajar (incluyendo los typos de tiendas diferentes), salimos de la aula y fuimos en las calles de Sucre.
Juan y yo ambos tuvimos un grupo de estudiantes y con nuestras paginas de instrucciónes fuimos en direcciónes diferentes. Lo que los grupos tuvieron que hacer fue seguir los direciónes (en inglés por supuesto), dando respuestas a preguntas sobre los tiendas que pasamos, antes de llegando a la Plaza central... donde el primer equipo que pudió hallar Roberto y decir la trabalenguas ganó! Mi equipo (de quién la mayoría fueron chicas) fue un poco mas despacio porque hubo muchas grupos de muchachos con bombas de agua, y ellos lanzaronlas a nosotros muchas veces! El equipo de Juan halló Roberto antes de nosotros y comían unas chocolates (el premio) cuando llegamos. Por consuelo, comimos unas galletas y tratamos a huir de los bombas de agua volando!
2 comments:
Greetings from a grey and wet Isle of Man! What a packed start to the new year you have both already had!!! I was so happy when I saw that some of your students had left comments on the blog - and relieved that Clairey had kindly translated them for us less 'lingual' individuals!!
The lessons and everything else you have done and seen sound so brilliant, and the people you have met all sound so nice. It is hard to imagine it fully although your blog entries and photos really paint a great picture of your travels.
By the way, I met with Em and Rach last week for tea while I was across, and we all commented on how much we missed you!!
Take care both of you, and keep up the fab blog entries.........
Lots of love from Jodie x x x x x
Hi Jode!
Thank you for the comment, it´s great to hear from you. Sorry to hear the weather is still a little on the soggy side of things where you are, but hopefully it won´t be too long before things pick up!
As for the happenings and people over here, you´re right that we have felt busy but have also been made to feel very welcome. Our co-teacher Juan kindly invited us to lunch at his house again today, which was lovely. I´ll miss the lessons with the kids here, but am really glad I´ve been able to see the summer school through to its final day.
I hope you and John are both well anyway, and really hope to see you not too long after I get back (under 4 weeks to go now, can´t believe it!).
See you soon,
Claire xxxx
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