On 1/24/2021, 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 new immigrants 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).
Reading tutors Emily Lin, Leo Cheng, and Alan Huang began Unit 3: Making Changes. They went over half of the chapters from the unit and reviewed irregular past tense. To make the class more interesting, they tried blooket.com, where the students raced to answer the questions the quickest.
For the level 1 class, Ryan Leung and Greene Xue taught a lesson focused on the topic of movies and music. Students started the class by drawing on prior knowledge and coming up with vocabulary related to the topic, then moved on to watching a short video and answering comprehension questions relating to it. Two conversations were carried out between two students using a premeditated script followed by a grammar lesson on object pronouns and the “would… verb + to + verb” sentence construction. Music related vocabulary was introduced, which was reinforced in a reading about musicians.
Student tutors Jasmine Chen and John Thach taught the advanced English proficiency course for AYLUS Syosset’s 24th online ESL tutoring class. This class, the tutors utilized the 3A, Fifth edition of Cambridge’s Interchange textbook to teach their students on forming requests in English using various degrees of formality. Once the instruction out of the textbook was completed, the lesson shifted to a traditional slides presentation, where a “storytime” activity was held. Storytime is a portion of the class where students are encouraged to form backstories, explanations, and develop a creative plot to explain random pictures that are provided without context. Following storytime, a vocabulary list was given where students took time to read through the list, pronounce each word, and learn the meaning of each individual word. This vocabulary list in particular covered uncommon emotion words that sometimes appear in speech, such as “crabby” and “peeved,” among others. Lastly, a recap video was provided which reviewed the major word groups in English.
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 Greene Xue(1.5 hours).
