Today we headed over to the United Kingdom. As one of the more famous countries, this was an easier day for students. The hardest thing we talked about was the difference between England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland, Britain, and the United Kingdom. But identifying the more famous places and people was easy for students. In fact, the hardest part was for me to narrow it down to 9 famous things.
For our cultural deep dive, we matched American-English and British-English names (like subway/underground, flashlight/torch, etc.) and even matched them to the Korean vocabulary (for my benefit). :)
Now, for our project! What could be more British than tea time?
Even though today was a semi-food day, it was a lot less prep than a full-on cooking day. We made 2 types of tea (English Breakfast and Earl Grey), which no matter how many times I said only steep your tea for 2 minutes, and even told them when 2 minutes was up and to take out their tea bags, they still let their tea steep until it was bitter. Sigh! Then we made 2 types of tea sandwiches, sweet (jam sandwiches with butter and strawberry jam) and savory (tuna and cucumber, which my British friend assured me was more common than just cucumber). However, super frustrating, was that kids didn't want to cut their sandwiches into tea sandwich size, they just wanted to eat a sandwich, which kinda defeats the purpose, but, oh, well. Double sigh!
So, easier, but more frustrating.
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