American Host Family 101

Learn how to live with your host family!

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What do students say about this class?

“Thank you so much for creating this workshop :) i feel so prepared for my exchange year and learned how much i should show my gratitude towards my host parents. I am positive I am able to do so now! Thank you for helping me :)”

“This give me ideas to communicate better with my host family and new friends in USA.”

“I really appreciate to learn about asking for permission or asking for favours. Its important to do it in the right and polite way.”

“I'm actually learning tons of things i didn't know, american culture, how to be open and kind, and to not feel insecure.”

“I'm learning very much about how to be polite its a very good practice.”

“I am learning a lot and I think these warnings and advice the course provides will be really helpful. What I prefer is the teaching that the luck of our exchange year will not come out of nowhere, but it is something we have to create. I think this is the main and most important message of the entire course.”

Course curriculum

1. What Can You Expect?
2. Activity: Meet Real Teenagers...
3. What about You?
4. Test - 100% Correct Required
5. Quick Survey (1 minute)
1. Lesson - What Might Be Different?
2. Activity: Ten Things to Talk About
3. PRINT: Host Family Interview
4. Test - 100% Correct Required
5. Quick Survey (1 minute)
1. Lesson Video 1
2. Activity: How to Invest!
3. Lesson Video 2
4. PRINT: Biggest Mistakes!
5. Activity: Biggest Mistakes
6. Lesson Video 3
7. Activity: Create Good Luck!
8. Quick Survey (1 minute)
9. Test - 100% Correct Required
1. Lesson 1 - Speak like an American?
2. READ: Asking Permission in the USA?
3. ACTIVITY: SPEAK POLITELY: Permission?
4. Lesson 2 - Asking Favors?
5. READ: Asking Favors in the USA?
6. ACTIVITY: SPEAK POLITELY: Favors?
7. Lesson 3 - Speak Carefully!
8. READ: Complaining in the USA?
9. ACTIVITY: SPEAK CAREFULLY: Complaints?
10. Lesson 4 - Apologize the American Way!
11. READ: Apologize in the USA?
12. ACTIVITY: SPEAK CLEARLY: Apologies?
13. Lesson 5 - Say Thanks the American Way!
14. READ: Thanks in the USA?
15. ACTIVITY: SPEAK CLEARLY: Gratitude?
16. Test - 100% Correct Required
17. Quick Survey (1 minute)
1. Lesson: Host Family Hacks?
2. Activity: Host Family Hacks!
3. Test - 100% Correct Required
4. What's Next? High School USA!
5. Quick Survey (1 minute)

About this course

€35,00
41 lessons
1 hour of video content

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I teach people about how to live, study and work abroad. I show exchange students how to have a good experience in the USA or Canada. See you in class!

Brenda Padilla Ericksen

Intercultural Trainer/Teacher

[email protected]

Students love this course!

What are you waiting for?

“Situations in which you need to ask for permission or say no to something are always uncomfortable, now I feel a little bit more prepared for when I have to face circumstances like these with my host family.”

“I think that the chapter about the sandwich answers was very beneficial!”

“I am learning that it is really important to really take care of how to ask for permission and things like that and don't expect things to work the same as in your home country.”