Luckily since I don’t work on Mondays I can stay up and watch the Super Bowl online. Unfortunately, the Steelers aren’t playing this year, but I think I almost love cheering against the Patriots as much as I love cheering for the Steelers. Fingers crossed the Giants win again! In honor of the Super Bowl, I did an American Football presentation with some of my English classes last week, and it went over really well! The first thing I did was to show the differences between American football and rugby since when most of my students previously asked about American football their question was “It’s the same thing as rugby, right?” It most certainly is not. I explained that the basic objective and basic rules of the game and of course I included some clips to illustrate the concepts. I had the Giants winning touchdown against the Patriots in their last Super Bowl as well as James Harrison’s 100 yard touchdown in Super Bowl 43. Obviously the two most important things for them to learn about American football are that the Steelers dominate and that the Patriots are overrated.
One class had just finished working on the comparative so each student had to say a sentence comparing American football with either rugby or Spanish football. Some students used “I like Spanish football more because it is …” But there were some students who said “I like American football more than Spanish football because it is …” Typically that sentence was finished with “more aggressive” but I was so excited that I had some American football converts. I felt like I saved some lives that day. I have to say though, I think my favorite moment was when one of the girls in the class used the sentence “I like Spanish football more than American football because the Spanish football players are more attractive.” Considering that most of my clips included Ben Roethlisberger instead of the undeniably attractive Tom Brady, there was no arguing with her logic.
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