What kind of classes do I teach?

We try to emphasize listening and speaking skills the most. If you are looking for a class that will do a lot of reading, writing, and grammar, then my classes would NOT be a good choice for you. You should take a college ESL class that specializes in those areas.


My classes are free to people aged 21 and over who have  a New York City (Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, etc) address. You must have a NYC address when you fill out the registration form.

 We try to improve our listening through listening to music and learning songs and also by watching parts of movies on DVDs. In addition, the students do a lot of oral presentations. Each day one student comes in front of the class and presents for 10 to 15 minutes. The oral presentations are often supported pictures from a Google Presentation on line that the student made (like Microsoft Power Point, but free. We don't use Power Point in class. I prefer everyone to use Google Presentations when they want to use pictures to make it simple for everyone).


We do not really use textbooks since we emphasize listening and speaking in the class. We read articles that I have found online from many different web sites, but we read them mostly so we can learn new vocabulary and to get topics for conversation. We try to learn a lot of new words. We try to spend a part of every day doing conversation in groups. I also believe learning about American culture is equally important to learning English in order to really understand things and people.


The students generally have a lot of fun and enjoy the classes a lot.      
I post links online to articles and some video clips that I might be using for my classes so that students can prepare in advance for the lessons if they like. See my planning blog here at eslplans.blogspot.com if you are curious.
  Here are some youtube videos I made of the kinds of typical conversation topics we might have in class.