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Shirley DeMichele presented her workshop, “ESL Conversation
Activities: These Are a Few of Our Favorite Themes,” on Saturday, 29
March at TESOL in Portland. This workshop looked at various ways to
accommodate different learning styles within the classroom. Shirley
explored the topic of food and showed a video that she created with
subtitles on how to order food at Subway, a sandwich restaurant. Lesson
plan ideas on how this video could be used as life skills teaching
within the class were shared and given as a packet to those attending.
Audience participants were then involved in a small-group exchange where
they brainstormed their favorite conversation activities that best
illustrated how they accommodated diverse learning styles within their
classes. Ideas were enthusiastically shared as a whole group, and
participants left with many new ideas to bring to their
classes.
Shirley
DeMichele is originally from Ireland, but
has been living in the Chicagoland area since 1989. She first became
interested in the field of TESOL when she taught EFL to Italian students
visiting Dublin. She has since taught ESL for Chicago Public Schools
and currently teaches at College of Lake County and at Harper College in
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