...is the
name of one of the most famous Christmas songs in England. It’s also a song
that has been dancing around my head all the week! This is, after all, our
final full week before the holidays and so I’ve been doing my best to help
spread festive cheer.
Let’s start
with International Studies. While Monday’s class planned their multicultural
city videos, Wednesday’s class filmed them. Afterwards, it only seemed right
that we should play some traditional English Christmas games while munching on
some candy and sipping some (delicious) Yorkshire Tea.
What were
these Christmas games, you ask? We got stuck into some good old Charades first
of all. This is a game where one person must give their teammates clues so that
they can guess the names of films, books, songs, and TV shows. NO TALKING ALLOWED!
Next up was
Articulate, a game where one player must select a random word and describe it
in order for the rest of their team to guess the correct word.
These games
were not limited to International Studies, however. The students in Merenojan have also experienced some English Christmas goodness this week. I must say –
they were much better at playing Articulate than I am.
“This guy
was in Baywatch and for some reason has a show here...” was probably my
favourite clue and led us all to ponder: why does David Hasselhoff have his own
TV show in Finland?!
The Merenojan students also learned about pantomimes (silly theatre shows) and did some
acting of their own using verbs and adverbs. There were some Oscar-worthy
performances as students pretended to eat nervously, play ice hockey angrily,
and swim happily. This was swiftly followed by some Christmas dinner bingo and,
let me tell you, the competition was fierce!
One of my
classes today was slightly bemused by the English song “Merry Christmas
Everyone” by Shakin’ Stevens. In return, they showed me “Sika”. I was truly
lost for words but at least now I know the Finnish translation for “pig”.
Oh and how
could I almost forget? Last weekend I finally managed to visit Tampere. There
was a wonderful atmosphere throughout the city and I especially loved the
Christmas market! All in all, this week has definitely got me excited for the
season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la la.
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