Last Saturday, December 5 class was held at the Queens Museum where students got to see the work of Zhang Hongtu for the first time. We went through the exhibit and viewed the work from different time periods of Zhang … Continue reading ESOL, English as a Second Language, Week 4→
On Saturday, November 21 students did a listening and pronounciation exercise to distinguish t, d and ed endings in regular past tense verbs. We looked at Zhang Hongtu’s Remake of Ma Yuan’s Water Series and talked about differences between the … Continue reading ESOL, English as a Second Language, Week 3→
ESL Week 2: On Saturday afternoon at the Queens library ESL students used a list of past tense verbs to write and talk about what they did during the week. Commonly used irregular and regular verbs that they changed to … Continue reading ESOL English as a Second Language – Week 2→
Our first English class was held at the library in Long Island City. We introduced ourselves with basic information about where we are from and how long we have lived in America. Students then broke into groups of two and … Continue reading ESOL English as a Second Language – Week 1→
The Adventures of Troll Creek picnic Mackenzie Reide came to do a reading from her young adult novel. For homework they read the first chapter, Mackenzie read the second chapter and for the third chapter they acted out possible … Continue reading ESOL Workshop (Atc Food)→
Tibetan verb scavenger hunt Students divided into two groups. Each group takes one room of the Tibetan exhibit. Each group given a list of 15 phrases from the wall text, each phrase starts with a verb. Students are to work … Continue reading ESOL Workshop (Tibetan Verb Scavenger Hunt)→
Time Capsule Andy Warhol: Each student made a time capsule and used past, present and future tenses to describe the items in them. Andy Warhol made time capsules> Some items from his time capsules were in the Most Wanted exhibit.