Intermediate 2's 'Portoviejo Tsunami'

So my last unit in my intermediate class was natural disasters and weather. To finish up the unit, I had them do a news report as a project about a tsunami hitting Portoviejo where one student was a reporter and each student was a person in the town (teacher, doctor, policeman, mayor, etc). They each had to talk about what they were doing before, during, and after the tsunami hit using various grammatical points and weather vocabulary that tied in with what we had been learning. I gave them part of the class for three days to work on the project and as they were writing their lines aka sitting there in silence on the first day, I went over to them and told them to make the project fun… that it didn’t have to be boring and they could make their lines exciting and have a fun plot. (One of my students responded by saying ‘but teacher.. a tsunami isn’t very fun’ haha). The next day they were much more lively as they were working on the project and they came up to me and asked ‘so teacher, we can make this fun right? You’re sure?’ And they spent the rest of the class giggling and looking over at me as they wrote their lines.
When it was time to present the next day, they were weirdly excited for presenting a project but I was clearly thrilled because usually they just sit there and seem bored so I sat in the back of the class to watch their presentation. I had brought my brush to use as a microphone but the reporter (also the girl who loves vampires and writes vampire smiley faces on everything) pulled out a microphone and her cell phone that had the news show’s ‘theme music’ and everyone started off by dancing as she walked out to start the news show. She had to give an introduction about what a tsunami was and explain what happened in general and then interview each character. I figured she would give the definition of a tsunami in this introduction, but she pulled out a picture of an obese man and said ‘yesterday’s tsunami was caused by an obese man jumping in the river in Portoviejo. Yesterday was the obese men’s holiday and all of them left their houses because they didn’t have to work and one jumped in the river and caused the tsunami that hit our city.’ She proceeded to show pictures of obese people jumping into the ocean and even a picture of an obese man where the paper was cut off at his head because ‘they were still unsure of the identity of the obese man who jumped into the river causing all of these horrible problems.’
She interviewed the rest of the students and most of their lines were all pretty weather-related, but when she interviewed the mayor his entire speech was about how they were going to make Portoviejo healthier and put all of the obese people on a diet so they could avoid problems like this in the future. I had to take a few points off because he literally didn’t use any weather vocabulary, but it was literally the most hilarious thing I had ever seen. And I only have 6 people in my intermediate class so I was just watching this by myself and I just lost it and could not stop laughing. I was so proud of them because they’re so creative and are motivated to learn English in a fun way. My intermediate class started out as my most difficult one because they were all at different levels and I didn’t know at all what they knew, but now I really enjoy it because they really can communicate and be creative and we can do really fun activities. We still have a lot of grammar to practice, but each class I can tell that they’re improving because they’re more and more willing to participate and put themselves out there with ridiculous scenarios that I don’t expect (obese men’s holiday, hilarious). I really hope I can move up with them after this session ends in December because I really do love working with students who I can challenge and who are really working towards speaking English really well. I absolutely love my job and even though they show up late and talk about vampires when we’re studying the present perfect, I really do look forward to each class.