Finally, students were asked to stand up and as the teacher spoke out the vocabulary items
students were asked to mime them out. It worked very well. Students reacted quickly. Whenever
there was a difficult word, there always were a few students, who knew how to mime it. Others
followed them. Aaron was very attentive at the beginning. He observed others and mimed the
vocabulary after them, though he was a bit unsure. It was clear the exercise was not effortless to
him. Aaron concentrated on the movements more than on their meaning. Amanda was rather an
observer. She did not want to participate much. She was embarrassed at this point. Yet she paid
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attention, mimed the things from time to time, when the movement was easy, or did not require
too much afford. She tried to show, that she did not care at all. However, she behaved herself and
did not disturb others.