American Space
All aboard with YL 6
The YL6 Saturday group is currently working on the topic of travel and transportation. After discussing the different modes of transportation and their personal preference the class was able to watch several videos on some of the most scenic train routes in the United States. After talking about American transportation students were paired up to
News from YL 3 B Saturdays
The YL3B Saturday class has been busy! In addition to studying our pronouns and future tenses, we’ve been learning a lot about American culture. For Halloween we carved our own jack-o’-lanterns. We’ve also played many popular American games, such as Jeopardy, Scattergories and Taboo. Books are an important part of the class. After reading about
What’s new in YL2B?
This fall in YL2B Saturday classes has been focused on experiments and conquering the fear of speaking English! In October we made videos talking out our hobbies to share with the rest of the class. We also read about about “Masks Around the World” and designed masks of our own based on our favorite emoticons. For Halloween
YL 2A News
The YL 2 A group has been doing activities and projects to practice the past tense forms. They’ve talked and wrote and sang, sometimes about what they did in summer and sometimes about what happened in BrainpopESL videos. Here you can see the ‘new’ lyrics they wrote to the tunes of familiar songs such as
Happy Halloween from YL 4 (Saturdays)!
We’ve had a great start to this year in YL4! We’ve already done a lot of activities where I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the students’ creativity. We have focused a lot on speaking, and the students have written and performed a number of dialogues and plays. Last week was our class dedicated to Halloween where
Kids Club 1: All about North American Music
This trimester in Kids Club 1, we are learning all about music from North America. We use poetry, games, media and creative activities inspired by music to learn about the people and places that helped create American music styles. We spent our first week exploring all the different ways music can make us feel by
YL3 Saturdays: Getting to Know You and Getting Spooky!
YL3 has jumped right into reading and writing this month! We started by creating some fantastic “recipes” to get to know each other a little better. We have read two stories together in class, and were especially enthralled by the very mysterious “Cave of the Lost”. For Halloween, everyone is bringing in a spooky story
It’s “time” to learn English with Young Learners 1!
Saturday‘s Young Learners 1 have kicked off the school year with energy and excitement! We are having fun getting to know each other by singing songs, reading books, and playing games that make us laugh. We have started the year by reviewing numbers and learning about routines. We read the book It Is School Time and talked
Welcome Teens Club!
Teens Club has begun with introductory activities and by personalizing a special journal that they will use throughout the year. Next week we embark on an interactive mapping project that will track famous explorers of the Americas around the globe. A Thanksgiving play presented to other classes, creepy classic Halloween stories, and winter STEM challenges are yet
NEW ACS MINI-COURSE FALL 2017: Redefining American: Latino/a Identity in the U.S.
Designed for advanced English speakers, this course explores how Latinos—the largest minority group in the United States—are redefining what it means to be American in the 21st century. What is the difference between the terms “Hispanic,” “Latino/a,” Latin@ and “Latinx”? How is President Trump’s proposal for a wall along the US-Mexico border connected to 1950s Hollywood