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     A  language classroom can be an incredibly boring place to spend a vacation. Throughout the semester students have dutifully attended a plethora of English lessons only to be faced with extra “fun, exciting and interesting” English classes during the vacation months. The stresses and strains our students face on a day-to-day basis are immense, as educators, it is not only our job to instil language into our students, but also to encourage, engage, and empathise with our students. We need to take into account the feelings of our students. What can we do to relieve the pressures our students face? How can we engage our students? How can we make our classes more enjoyable without sacrificing our goals? Most importantly, how can we get students to take control of their own learning? With these questions moving around in my mind I set out to create a vacation programme that would ignite the passions of our students.      My first decision was to move a...