PostScript – To take this exercise further:
Students break up into group to research and discuss the following:
- The etymology of the word ‘tea’.
- Gender and Tea – what are the power dynamics?
- Social Class and Tea
- Environmental aspects of Tea
- Material and Tea – specifically what do we consider tea? a hot steeped drink? mint, lemon balm, ginger…
- Objects and Tea
- Language and Tea – idioms in other languages – what are the cultural references of these idioms – what can we glean from them
- Wellbeing and Tea