Great post, great ideas! As an English teacher to Portuguese students, I try to show them myself and my love for teaching. Sometimes during the class, our plans go to waste! Then, we have to look at what are the students' feelings (boredom most of the times!) and change the plans accordingly. Most of the times it's easier to work together instead of individually, listen to whatever they want to share and the class goes by so fast they even ask "finished already?!" :D