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      <title>Re: Do all tutors have trouble with attendance during cold months?</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:10:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John Wang</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/31</link>
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      <description>Thanks, Susan for your feedback...Hope all is well. John ... From: LVEC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LVEC@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Susan O&#39;Brien Sent: Sunday,</description>
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      <title>Re: Do all tutors have trouble with attendance during cold months?</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:18:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Susan O&#39;Brien</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/30</link>
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      <description>John, Yes.  I can say as a former tutor and part of the LVEC team that it was a very common thing to see attendance drop off a great deal at times, and in the</description>
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      <title>Re: Do all tutors have trouble with attendance during cold months?</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:16:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>kreasbeck</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/29</link>
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      <description>... it ... experiences ... Hi, John - At Otis, we&#39;ve seen the same thing--attendance is markedly down.  The conversation group that Ben and I host on Wednesday</description>
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      <title>Do all tutors have trouble with attendance during cold months?</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:39:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/28</link>
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      <description>Many Magnet school Learners have not been showing up.  I am guessing it is the cold weather but I would like to know if anyone else experiences this.</description>
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      <title>Open Captioned films to the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and ESL communit</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:08:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/27</link>
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      <description>I don&#39;t know how many of you are aware that there are movies in English with English subtitles.  I am talking about first run movies in the local theatres. Saw</description>
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      <title>Pronunciation is one of the big keys to English or any language.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/26</link>
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      <description>Here is a document that ESL-PRO sent out his week on pronunciation. I am also going to put this in the Files section so it will be easy to print and available</description>
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      <title>New file uploaded to LVEC </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/25</link>
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      <description>Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the LVEC group. File        : /ESL Pro Systems</description>
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      <title>Re: Crosswords can be good vocabulary builders.</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:53:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Susan O&#39;Brien</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/24</link>
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      <description>Hi John, You can also go to puzzlemaker.com and make all sorts of puzzles for students.  I was doing that and using the words that you find in the picture</description>
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      <title>Re: Crosswords can be good vocabulary builders.</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:07:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>kreasbeck</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/23</link>
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      <description>Hi, John - This does sound like a good idea.  Several of the Rosetta Stone workbook exercises take the form of crossword puzzles, and the learners seem to </description>
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      <title>Crosswords can be good vocabulary builders.</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:46:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/22</link>
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      <description>This is a site worth checking out.     http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ &lt;http://www.vocabulary.co.il/&gt; I like the crossword.  You can choose subjects the Learners</description>
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      <title>Next Tutor Training/Follow Up session in the makes...</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 19:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>john4wang</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/21</link>
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      <description>We will be holding another training session in a few weeks... As we come together more and more often, we will find ourselves more educated on the subject of</description>
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      <title>Check out the files for our group.</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 18:59:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/20</link>
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      <description>Has anyone looked at the files in this group? Check them out! If you don&#39;t know how just go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/ and click on &quot;Files&quot; on the</description>
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      <title>Questions to Ponder</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 11:52:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/18</link>
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      <description>John please put me down too. THanks John Cunningham ... why ... .</description>
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      <title>Questions to Ponder</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:42:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>john4wang</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/17</link>
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      <description>Dear All, We have so far six people that are interested in either a second tutor training or follow up session. Here are some lists of issues we can discuss</description>
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      <title>Our Spring Training</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:47:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>john4wang</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVEC/message/16</link>
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      <description>We had two nights of training - Sara gave another stellar performance to demonstrate how to effectively teach ESL to groups. At the training, good questions</description>
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