Hi everyone! I would like to teach the 4th grammar point – Be going to + base form for future plans 🙂

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.

I feel like we did a really good job during the Zoom call. Thank you all for attending it! 🙂
After hearing your ideas I think I should work more on fluency and clarity of my instructions.

Oh wow, what a great idea! Hopefully your husband’s neck pain dissapeared after it!
It seems like you gave really good instructions, step by step. I should come for your stretching lessons as well haha

Yes, that’s what I thought as well. I felt like we were just overthinking it too much sometimes! But it was definitely helpful to see points of view of everyone – it definitely helps with understanding how we perceive the excercises and what we can work on to better ourselves up.

I felt like you were really good at putting instructions in a short and clear way.