On 5/2/2021, seven members of the Syosset AYLUS (Leo Cheng, John Thach, Ryan Leung, Alan Huang, Emily Lin, and Greene Xue, Jasmine Chen) 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, Jasmine).
Student tutors Leo, Emily and Alan went back to the Interchange Book after a few weeks focusing on mini-essays. To refresh their minds on the previous lessons, we reviewed grammar through Blookets and presentations.
Student tutors Jasmine Chen and John Thach taught the advanced class of AYLUS Syosset’s 34th online ESL Tutoring class. In this class, the tutors took a quick break from the regular Interchange textbook curriculum to do a variety of speaking and communication activities with students as an interlude before the second half of the textbook. Students did a combination of vocabulary, storytelling and speaking exercises through customized slides and a Jamboard the tutors crafted for the students.
Tutors, Ryan and Greene went over new types of vocabulary such as different biomes and landscapes. The students were taught how to identify each landscape and then were asked to describe the scenery. A video featuring a gameshow about geography was watched and the class played their own gameshow featuring questions about the video. Two short passages of dialogue between two people testing each other on geography was read by the students and more comprehension questions were answered. Finally, the students were taught how to form and use comparatives and superlatives(i.e longer, the longest, harder, the hardest).
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, and Greene Xue(1.5 hours).
