Database lesson plan design

The more I come to our class the more I happen to like it. I just wish every other teacher could as well implement the lesson plans to his/her curricula the way our instructor does.
It also depends I think, on what subject one is teaching. For me, teaching ESOL, sometimes it seems hard to apply all we study into my own classes, though I really wish I could.
One thing I can use of Database lesson plans, would be the one with Student made source. In which students ( usually the first sessions of the school year ) are required to make a database on Excel with their classmates info on their: name, gender,age, origin,and more related topics later on.
ESOL students start going around gathering information about their new friends, getting to know each other and of course using the target language. The objective would be learning to communicate in a real life situation when one is encountered with strangers or wants to pass on his/her info to others.After getting to know everybody in class, they enter the info to the program ( which was already set up by the teacher and were given a few examples on how to work with it ), and start sorting and organizing the data into knowing their classmates better. What age group, what main originality, what more gender and the rest. They could also include their address , telephone numbers, email address, in order to have a contact list data for future use. Students usually like moving around and gathering information if they are given the role of a police officer, detective and/or ordinary citizens or even ETs! ( UFOs!). The more the teacher makes the situation real the better the learning result would be. In multilingual classes this would result even better because they do not and can not speak their first language and they have no other choice than using their TL (English here) and thus the practice would be more productive.