TA Week #4 Madison

Last Tuesday I had the privilege of teaching my second ESL class ever, and my first listening class. As expected I was a bit nervous when I first started, but I settled in quickly and found my rhythm. I taught the students about American Football. To begin with what seemed as if it was a daunting task.....since there are so many rules to football. I started with a song celebrating our school spirit and football team. The song was called 'Gold and Garnet' and is a remix from the original 'Black and Yellow.' The song is a rap song so I knew that it would be very difficult for my students to understand, but I still wanted to play it so they could try to catch some vocabulary words like Tennessee street, Tallahassee, Gold and Garnet, spear, etc. After the song I went over some football vocabulary terms with the class. I made a powerpoint so the class had visual aids to refer to. Then the students completed a short clozed dictation about football. After the dictation I told them some of the famous figures associated with FSU football like Jameis and Bobby Bowden. Then I taught them the war chant.....which they were less than enthused about. That concluded my lesson, and then we all ate the pumpkin pie that Mrs. Debbie brought! :)