Today I had my last lesson with two of my Tutoring students. We started off with a review of the weekend and some football chat. I tried to explain that Florida State football had a really good weekend but I was met with a bit of apathy. I was told that it is rather difficult to follow a sport where one does not understand the rules. I agreed and promised that we would get together a following weekend for a football game on Sunday so I can teach them the rules of the game.
Off to tutoring... as stated in the last post, I allowed the students to choose their lesson over the weekend and they e-mailed me what they wanted to discuss. They wanted to learn more about American food while coordinating it with learning more English accents. I told them they had no idea what they got their hands into! Immediately I thought of Paula Dean and her extreme Southern accent and ridiculous "whatever we are cooking, I am going to add a tub of butter to it" mentality of preparing meals.
For some pre-lesson and background references, I grabbed two Paula Dean magazines that they could take with them. Also, we flipped through the magazine and I discussed with them that all of these recipes were considered "southern foods". After familiarizing them with the subject, we dived into the Paula Dean cooking show. Luckily I was able to find a few on youtube (our savior recently) and we listened to hear hoot-and-holler for about 10 minutes. She has so much gumption and character, it was hard to not laugh the entire time. I had a worksheet with missing words (I made sure one of the blanks was "y'all") and my students attempted to fill it out. They did about as well as I thought they would do, for this was definitely a difficult lesson worksheet.
In the end, I have gained a lot of confidence, learned about my teaching styles and have gave two students a priceless amount of education in the past few weeks. I am looking forward to keeping my feet wet in the near future. Cheers,
Matthew
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