I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources.
I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.
Last Friday (Jan 20th) one of my vocational classes had their first contact with a professional in the art of brewing and serving the best coffee: Paulo Vieira, a former adult learner of mine, kindly accepted my invite to come to our school to teach and share his large experience with our young students. He spent the whole morning there and started by showing how to do some daily preventive maintenance and service to coffee machines (always needed besides the scheduled maintenance); step by step, he provided cleaning instructions, explaining that the best coffee beans cannot make up for the impurities a dirty machine adds to our drinks. He then moved on and showed how to grind coffee properly and how to store it - yes, that's also important once whole bean or ground coffees lose their flavour quickly.
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Hats off to our students as well who not only paid attention but were also willing to brew coffee and then served teachers and staff so competently. They really did their best performing their role regardless of their lack of experience and did learn to serve the beverage items properly to provide satisfaction to guests in restaurants, bars, coffee shops or, quietly simply, at their own school thus acquiring the practice they so desperately need.
Some final thank you words to sr Paulo Vieira for his time, professionalism, dedication, positive attitude towards our students and for "his" gorgeous coffee. Yes... the coffee served was brought by him and it was from SICAL, so our thanks to NESTLE as well :=)
congratulations to the teacher and to the students! Thanks for the links to the recipes, as I love coffee, the smell and the taste, I will try some of the recipes.
Dear Alex, I could almost smell it! We have had a wondeful exhibition and taste of coffee and tea varities two years ago at our school it was a huge success. People love practical things and being able to experience interesting things.
Thank you all for your feedback. I'm also a coffee addict though in winter I also drink a lot of tea. so, Ana, thanks for the tip. Students do love these activities and that's the way these vocational courses are / should be conceived, right?
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It was a great activity with Mr Vieira. When is the next?
Thank you for looking so good :=)
Marco Gameiro nº 10 11ºF
i loved this activity, because I learned much more by doing it myself.
I hope to have many more activities.
(Flavio Martins)
congratulations to the teacher and to the students!
Thanks for the links to the recipes, as I love coffee, the smell and the taste, I will try some of the recipes.
Cristina
I miss that coffee and cookies, what a pity...
I'm a coffee addict!
The students look very elegants and professionals!
Anabela Figueiredo
Dear Alex,
I could almost smell it!
We have had a wondeful exhibition and taste of coffee and tea varities two years ago at our school it was a huge success. People love practical things and being able to experience interesting things.
Thank you all for your feedback.
I'm also a coffee addict though in winter I also drink a lot of tea. so, Ana, thanks for the tip. Students do love these activities and that's the way these vocational courses are / should be conceived, right?
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