Nog and I are starting up some intensive English classes.

There will be full-day and half-day weekend classes offered. The full-day one includes breakfast and lunch and a trip to the cinema to watch a film in English. The half-days will be mostly the same, without lunch and a film.

I did a full-day intensive class a couple of years ago with four students – all professionals who didn’t have time during the week to take classes but they could commit to one day a month. It was fabulous and we had a lot of fun with it. Of course these people already have a rather high level of English, but the idea is that they can spend a day practicing and communicating to maintain their level. Kind of like spending a day in London (or wherever) without the extra expense of having to go there.

No grammar is taught at this class. It is focussed on conversation, vocabulary, communication and pronunciation, which takes place around various activities: discussions, games, songs, etc.

Some of the activities/games we have planned are:

• scrabble
• pictionary
• trivial pursuit
• boggle (thanks PC!)
• charades
• round-robin storytelling
• songs
• reading & discussing news articles

So we were just wondering if any of you could give us some more ideas about what might be a fun and challenging activity to include. The half-day courses are also offered to students with an intermediate level (they couldn’t deal with a full-day thing) so we’re also looking for stuff that would be good for people at this level.