The South
Episode of the series Awesome Stuff
The episode
Head south for barbecue, Music City Nashville, Mardi Gras, and the giant state of Texas — the South in one big, hot, delicious episode.
Episode worksheets (2)
- Student sheet In your teacher account
- Teacher sheet In your teacher account
Teaching guide
Objective & content
Jessa guides listeners through the South, the region with fourteen states and about 127 million people, from Virginia to Texas. Together they compare four barbecue styles (Texas beef, Memphis ribs, Carolina pulled pork and Alabama's white sauce), then talk about Nashville as "Music City", the word "y'all", the Mardi Gras party in New Orleans, the hot and humid summers and the size of Texas. Learners practise present simple, superlatives and short comparatives (more, bigger, closer), with vocabulary of food, weather and music. The main skill is listening; one line to notice is "That's not a state. That's a country wearing a cowboy hat."
Materials & prerequisites
- Student sheet and teacher sheet, each as a PDF and an HTML file (in the episode's printables).
- Learners should know the present simple, the names of common foods and numbers over a hundred.
Curriculum alignment
Tagged c3-child-and-wider-environment (cycle 3, 6e). The episode targets CEFR level A1+.
Possible adaptations
- Lower levels: Offer segmented listening and additional visual aids.
- Advanced levels: Encourage an oral summary and a debate in English on the theme.
- Large groups: Organise group work with differentiated roles.
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