On 10/11/2020, six members of the Syosset AYLUS (Alan Huang, Jasmine Chen, Leo Cheng, John Trech, Ryan Leung and Emily Lin) taught a ninety-minute English class to multiple newly immigrated high school students with varying degrees of proficiency in English.
The lesson consisted of three parts: reading, writing, and speaking.
Leo Cheng and Emily Lin taught the reading portion of AYLUS Syosset’s ninth ESL Tutoring class. To maintain a light mood during class, we continued giving jokes and analyzing them at the beginning of class. After going through the short passage “Harrison Bergeron” from previous classes, we watched the film adaptation in class. There was a google doc that had 5 questions for the students as they watched the film. Because the film was not completed, they had to answer as many questions as they can or watch it by themselves if they want to for homework.
Today in class, Ryan Leung and Alan Huang did a review of the previous classes lessons. We covered stressed syllable rules such as clear vowel, pitch, and length. We also taught the students about stress in compound words, objects that are described in two words(I.e vacuum cleaner), words with “selves” and “self”, and words with number values (I.e forty). We also covered function vs content words as well as the 5 types of function words (auxiliary verbs, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, and pronouns). Lastly, we reviewed that in words that have two different meanings with the same spelling such as “produce”, the noun form of the word has the stressed syllable in the first syllable and in the verb form of the word the stressed syllable is found on the second syllable or last syllable of the word.
In the writing class, Jasmine Chen and John Trech reviewed the vocabulary students learned over the past 5 weeks. Students were led through review vocab sheets and practiced pronouncing challenging words. At the end of class, tutors played a variety of short ESL learner games with the students. The class was instructed in English to immerse the students in an English environment.
At the end of the entire class, a game of Skribbl.io was played to let the students practice English vocab and understanding.
The following 6 students volunteered in today’s tutoring program: Alan Huang (1.5 hours), Jasmine Chen (1.5 hours), John Trech(1.5 hours), Leo Cheng (1.5 hours), Emily Lin(1.5 hours) and Ryan Leung (1.5 hours).
