On 9/13/2020, six members of the Syosset AYLUS (Alan Huang, Jasmine Chen, Leo Cheng, John Trach, Ryan Leung and Emily Lin) taught a 90-minute English class to multiple newly immigrated high school students with varying degrees of proficiency in English, some of which joined us for the first time.
The lesson consisted of three parts: reading, writing, and speaking. Leo Cheng and Emily Lin taught the reading portion. In this class, we first presented and explained a joke to set a cheery atmosphere where the students would be willing to talk more. Then, we went over the homework which was to finish the SAT passage and do the 5 questions. The goal of this class was to get the students to understand the different types of SAT questions so we went over and explained 8 of them. Lastly, their homework was to use what they learned today to tell us what type each SAT question was from their homework previously.
Jasmine Chen and John Thach taught the writing portion. The September 13th class was a continuation of the last class and taught the students about the basics of how a complete sentence is crafted in English. The second part of the lesson included an intermediate level ESL vocab list based on the overall theme of clothing, which the students read and were led through. At the very end of class, a short ice breaker game utilizing the vocabulary from the class was played. The class was instructed fully in English in an attempt to immerse the students in an English environment.
In the speaking section, Alan Huang and Ryan Leung went over Stressed Syllables, such as how to identify them using three methods (clear vowel, length, and pitch) along with out loud speaking practice on how to properly stress words for their correct meanings(for example stressing OB in object is a verb while stressing the JECT in object is a noun). We also taught 4 more tentative rules to identify stressed syllables: (1) In compound words, the first word out of a compound word is usually the stressed syllable(I.e classroom, class is the stressed syllable); (2) The stress often falls on the first noun or the stressed syllable of the first noun(i.e air conditioner, the stress falls on air); (3) Whenever the phrase “self” or “selves” is in a word, it is usually the stressed syllable; (4) Number values in words usually contain the stress (in eighteen, the eight has the stress while the teen is just another syllable)
The following students volunteered in today’s tutoring program: Alan Huang (1.5 hours), Jasmine Chen (1.5 hours), John Trach (1.5 hours), Leo Cheng (1.5 hours), Emily Lin (1.5 hours) and Ryan Leung (1.5 hours).
