On 3/28/2021, six members of the Syosset AYLUS (Leo Cheng, John Thach, Ryan Leung, Alan Huang, 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). Breakout-rooms ended 35 minutes early to give all of the students a chance to express their feelings as an Asian or a chance to reflect upon recent Asian discrimination in the form of an essay. Instructions were given and the students were put into breakout rooms with one of the tutors if the students needed help on the essay. The students were given the next week to complete this essay and are recommended to share their essays.
The intermediate class tutors Leo Cheng and Alan Huang finished a chunk of the unit “Time to celebrate!!”. Relative clauses of time were taught to the students and many writing and speaking exercises were presented to the students. They spoke and wrote about the topic of their favorite holiday, which most of them said was Chinese New Year.
Student tutors Jasmine Chen and John Thach taught the advanced English proficiency course for AYLUS Syosset’s 32nd online ESL tutoring class. This class, the seventh chapter of Cambridge’s 3A, Fifth edition Interchange textbook was taught. Directly following the textbook activities, the students played a word and creative game of Skribbl. This game sees the students picking various vocabulary words and drawing them. Other students are then to guess which word their classmate is drawing in a set amount of time.
In the intro level class taught by Ryan Leung and Greene Xue, students were taught a lesson on the major cities of America. 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 which cities they have visited before. This was then followed up by a video focused on the various tourist locations in San Francisco, complete with video-based questions. Students read several passages, including hypothetical role play. Students also learned about adverbs before adjectives and conjunctions.
The following 6 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), and Greene Xue(1.5 hours).
