On 3/14/2021, seven members of the Syosset AYLUS (Leo Cheng, John Thach, Ryan Leung, Alan Huang, Emily Lin, Jasmine Chen, and Greene Xue) taught a ninety-minute English class to multiple newly immigrated high school students with varying degrees of proficiency in English.
In class, there were 3 classes with 3 levels; Intro (Ryan and Greene), Intermediate (Alan, Leo and Emily), and Advanced (John and Jasmine).
The intermediate class tutors Leo Cheng, Alan Huang, and Emily Lin started Unit 7: What do you use this for? They reviewed the gerund grammar topic for a student that wasn’t present for the previous class. To practice, the students joined a Blooket containing the gerunds and the new technology vocabulary.
Student tutors Jasmine Chen and John Thach taught the advanced English proficiency course for AYLUS Syosset’s 30th online ESL tutoring class. This class, the sixth chapter of Cambridge’s 3A, Fifth edition Interchange textbook was completed. Directly following completion of the textbook chapter, the students answered some questions on a jamboard. There, each person was encouraged to post a personalized answer to various questions designed to make the student think deeply and reflect on their own beliefs. These questions included: “If you could have one super power, what would it be?” Lastly, several games of gimkit were conducted. The games centered around English grammar and vocabulary.
In the intro level class taught by Ryan Leung and Greene Xue, students were taught a lesson about how to describe people. A new program, peardeck, was used to make the lesson more engaging, allowing students to draw, interact, and answer questions on slideshows. Students started off by brainstorming about how they would describe themselves. This was then followed up by a video about focused on house security, complete with video-based questions. Students read several passages that included hypothetical role plays and informational articles on selfies and how people perceive themselves. Students also learned how to say ages and heights, the difference between the imperial and metric system, prepositions, and present participles.
The following 7 students volunteered in today’s tutoring program: John Thach(1.5 hours), Leo Cheng (1.5 hours), Alan Huang(1.5 hours), Ryan Leung (1.5 hours) Jasmine Chen(1.5 hours), Emily Lin(1.5 hours), and Greenie Xue(1.5 hours).
