A friend suggested Shakespeare. Haha. Native English speakers have trouble understanding the Bard.

As for teaching and actually being involved…my two most fun French classes ever at Centre were with Professor Keffer. One class was focused on speaking and listening skills: listening to internet-supplied French discussions about interesting subjects (like Google trying to take over the world), talking about those shows in class each day, transcribing (Is that the right word? Write down what you hear?) some of the shows or at least sections of them, and then for a grade we put together our own radio show (but didn’t stage it) and even recorded it for class. We switched groups each day or every week. I don’t remember. Anyway, it was a fun and different way to learn. I mean, you could probably even use…umm…I almost said YouTube videos but lyrics are online, but like if you found a Simpsons clip or something, you know? Entertaining and theoretically helpful. Something along those lines could maybe work.

My other class with Keffer was Moliere. We read the book on our own and then acted out scenes in class. Most of the time it was fun. I hated improving scenes, though. I often hadn’t read, or if I had read I hadn’t completely understood and thus didn’t know the tone to use when acting it out. Anyway, maybe you can find something active like that.

A couple of ideas out of that lame box, at least. Good luck! Keep bloggin’ it, yo!