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Cora Chen             
ESL instructor, City College of San Francisco  
   
I'm an ESL instructor at City College of San Francisco.  My students are immigrants from all over the world with diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.  My daily interactions with them in the classroom have become a learning experience for me because teaching often generates immediate feedback on my pedagogical techniques.  Every day I learn something new on the job, which I enjoy very much.     
 
My ESL exercises:  
Culture Note: Giving & Receiving Gifts  reading & vocabulary (intermediate & advanced)
More Culture Notes: Different Customs in Different Cultures (intermediate & advanced)
 
Cloze exercise: idioms (intermediate)  
Cloze exercise: noun clauses (intermediate)
Cloze exercise: present, past, future tenses (elementary)
Multiple-choice exercise: (elementary)
Immigration Vocabulary  (intermediate)
                                                                                                                     
My Videos for ESL:
Dances from the Depths the Wonders of the Ocean (elementary)
   
My Animations for ESL:
http://cora-films.blogspot.com

My Exercises on Music & Art:
String Instruments : the comparatives of adjectives & adverbs (intermediate)
Musical Humorist Victor Borge : vocabulary (intermediate)
Degas & The Ballerinas : vocabulary (advanced)
           
My Lesson Plans Published by KQED Education Network: 
1. Using Podcasts to Enrich Students’ Listening Repertoire  (elementary, intermediate & advanced)

2. Designing A Room: Using an Online Game to Develop Language Skills in ESOL Students  (elementary)


My Lesson Plan @ TESOL Electronic Village (video for ESL):
Holidays & Celebrations : Learning about Other Cultures through Documentary Films
(elementary, intermediate & advanced)  (another link)
 

Collaborative Podcast by ESL/EFL Teachers Worldwide: 

Comparing Places  the comparatives & the superlatives of adjectives (all levels)

                                                                                                                        

Presentation Project (website): Rhythm & Acoustics (in Architecture)


 

Useful Links: 

ESL/ESOL Websites

Learn English today

Charles & Larry Kelly's ESL site

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

English Learners

Enlglish Page

Grammar Quizzes

English, Spanish, German Phonetic site

Pronunciation Web Resources

Ryan Detwiler’s ESL Video Site

Dennis Oliver's ESL Website

Isabel Perez's ESL Website

The Free Dictionary - idioms & phrases

Using English a large collection of ESL tools & resource

U.S.A.Learns  lessons with videos & exercises

Word Champ--vocabulary lists in 112 languages

Google Language Tools