It
is easy to take the chapter materials and create holistic activities
which take the students into the next level of competence. Incorporating
music, drama, art and other investigations are easily incorporated.
Each year I look forward to coming up with different interesting culminating
activity for each chapter, because I can take the ever-evolving student
profile and interests into consideration and include them within a fun
and ultimately expansive activity. Through these activities students
learn to expand the text materials to incorporate their own interests
and develop their own personalized repretoire of expressions and grammatical
structures. To spread these student innovations to other members of
the class and to other classes, then, is but an easy step away.