On Favorite Song Music Presentations

Now here is a project which I never thought would backfire! Mind the past tense, please. I asked my first years (most of whom act as though they have taken some sort of bizarre vow to never, ever, under any circumstances, utter a word in class - conversation class, nonetheless) to pick a song they like (in English), play it for the class, distribute the lyrics and say what it talks about. I mean, wouldn't you want to do that? How hard can it be, really? To say nothing of the fact that I volunteered my laptop, so that they would not have to worry about playing it. AND volunteered to print out the lyrics and make copies so as to spare them the 1-2 Euro they would have paid for printing charges!

Boy, was I up for a rude awakening. Working the sign-up sheet proved a challenge. I have three groups and henceforth three columns - only Group 1 could figure out they needed to sign up in just one column. The remaining two groups were scattered in BOTH columns so I had to color-code it. You think that helped? Think again. I am not even going to comment on the people who signed up to present Oct 12 at the beginning of November. "If I could tuuurn back tiiime"? AAARGH! Follow my presentation comments please, guys, because there will be a lot more presenting in Semester 2!