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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)
Cora's Scrapbook on Pens (advanced)                                               
Cloze exercise: idioms (intermediate)  
Cloze exercise: noun clauses (intermediate)
Cloze exercise: present, past, future tenses (elementary)
Multiple-choice exercise: (elementary)    
                                                                                                                     
My Videos for ESL:
Dances from the Depths the Wonders of the Ocean (elementary)
   
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 Plan Published by KQED Education Network:  
Using Podcasts to Enrich Students’ Listening Repertoire  (elementary, intermediate & advanced)
 
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)