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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 Notes:
Giving & Receiving Gifts  reading & vocabulary  with interactive exercises & survey (intermediate & advanced)
Different Customs in Different Cultures (intermediate & advanced)
Meeting People for the First Time (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 [ 3 videos with 3 interactive exercises:] (elementary)
The Flamboyant Greek Soloist from the Deep Sea (vocabulary)
The Dancer in Fancy Costume (on colors & prepositions)
The Dancer in Stripes (on colors & prepositions)

Paradise enjoying the beauty of nature [video with interactive exercise] (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 Animations for ESL:
http://cora-films.blogspot.com

         
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 Published by ESLvideo.com @ TESOL's Electronic Village:
Holidays & Celebrations : Learning about Other Cultures through Documentary Films
(elementary, intermediate & advanced)  (another link)
 

Multilingual Proverbs & Sayings (my collaborative project with educators worldwide)

http://sites.google.com/site/proverbssayings


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

Ryan Detwiler’s ESL Video Site 

Jennifer Lebedev's Video English Lessons

Mike Marzio's Real English Videos for ESL/EFL

Dennis Oliver's ESL Website

Isabel Perez's ESL Website

The Free Dictionary - idioms & phrases

English, Spanish, German Phonetic site

Pronunciation Web Resources

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