On 10/18/2020, six members of the Syosset AYLUS (Alan Huang, Jasmine Chen, Leo Cheng, John Thach, 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. Something new was that there were 2 new students and instead of using breakout rooms and we had a combined class where tutors could view each other’s classes.
Reading tutors Emily Lin and Leo Cheng finished the last ten minutes of the short film of “Harrison Bergeron.” While watching the film, they answered the students’ questions in the Zoom chat in either English or Chinese. After the short film, we gave a brief summary of “Harrison Bergeron” for the two new students in the class. We also gave them a few questions to see how much they understood. At the end of the class, we analyzed another joke.
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 words can 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 Thach reviewed the grammar they had spent the past three weeks learning. Students were led through vocab sheets and practiced pronouncing challenging words. At the end of class, tutors played a short ESL learner game about building upon sentences with more elaborate detail 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 Thach(1.5 hours), Leo Cheng (1.5 hours), Emily Lin(1.5 hours) and Ryan Leung (1.5 hours).
