Hi everyone! I did the “Teach me anything” task earlier with my daughter as I needed to move forward on the course.
I decided to teach her “how to make salad dressing”. She’s 12 years old and it was part of our lunch 🙂
I asked her get the utensils we would need. Telling her one at a time. I had her set them up near all of the ingredients. I told her how much oil and how much vinegar. She measured them into the bowl. She added salt and pepper and the base was done. I then let her smell and choose from all of our spices. I only suggested the quantity. We both tasted it. I suggested some more salt. More tasting, and then she wanted to put some more curry powder.
Finished!
We both added the lettuce and some other ingredients. She was excited to try it at lunch.
I felt it was necessary to proceed one step at a time and let her touch, smell, measure and choose. It was fun for her and she enjoyed the result. We both did!

I have done this task with my husband.
He was complaining of neck pain today, so I decided to teach him some stretches.
I didn’t have any documents or images to show. I was demonstrating on myself the muscles that we were going to stretch. Then giving the instructions, one action at a time and I was doing it at the same time to demonstrate how to do it. eg: bring your right arm down, then your left ear to your left shoulder until you feel a resistance.
The hardest part was to remember to say the opposite side to what I was doing as he was facing me.
We did this for a few neck muscles and his neck felt better afterwards. I wondered if I needed anything to show muscles, but then I was just pointing on myself to keep it simple and not an anatomy lecture.

He reported that I was clear with my explanations but that one time I could have been more precise and turn around to show the stretch better.

For the “Teach Me Anything” task I have decided to teach my boyfriend how to make pancakes.
Before I prepared a glass of flour, a glass of milk, a half a glass of water, 2 eggs, some salt, a bottle of sunflower oil, a large bowl, a spatula, a large pan and a wooden spoon.
I let him do everything following my instructions. I told him step by step what ingredients to put in the bowl and to stir with the wooden spoon until the texture becomes smooth, without any lumps. After that I told him to put the pan on the induction, put the heat on medium and wait 2-3 minutes for the pan to heat up.
In the meantime I realised that I forgot to prepare the ladle to pour the dough on the pan. I explained to him that we need to add a little bit of the sunflower on the pan and move it in circles so the oil would cover the whole surface (I tried to mime it). Then I decided to show him how to make a perfect pancake. I poured some dough on the pan and showed him how to move the pan so the dough could form a pancake. Then I told him to take a spatula, wait 1 minute and turn the pancake on the other side. After that it was his turn to do it. He followed the previous instructions and finished all the pancakes.
It was a very fun exercise to do, we got to spend a really good time together. It was also my first time telling someone how to cook because usually I prefer to do it myself so it was nice to change the roles.
After I thought that I could have probably given him the ingredients in their original packaging, explained to him how much of each ingredient we needed and let him do the measurements. Also I didn’t think to prepare every tool (the ladle and the plate where he put the cooked pancakes).
But overall I really liked the exercise and the pancakes were delicious so I think he did a pretty good job.

The Czech teacher showed the class how to introduce themselves by saying their names. She explained that nationality in Czech has gender, as in French, and made this clear from the start. She focused on pronunciation, asked students to repeat after her, and wrote her name on the board, breaking it down step by step to show she was introducing herself.

For the “Teach Me Anything” activity, I followed the same approach. I taught my friend some Hindi, explaining that Hindi also has gender, similar to French. In Hindi, nouns are either masculine or feminine, and adjectives and some verb forms change accordingly. For example, chhota ladka (a small boy) becomes chhoti ladki (a small girl), and even “I am tired” changes depending on whether the speaker is male or female. I used simple gestures, elicitation, and clear techniques to help my friend understand both the vocabulary and the concept of gender agreement.