We are almost half way through the CELTA course and it is admirable that all of us have had such a tremendous growth curve. Personally‚ I know I have become much more confident about standing in front of a classroom full of students and talking about different aspects of English language. I discovered the very first day that it was important to establish a good rapport with the students and be comfortable talking with them. I learned it was also important to engage students in conversation rather
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Lead In/Prediction Harmer explains that the lead in stage is “where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema” or “pre-existent knowledge of the world” (Harmer‚ 2007:271) Questions and pictures or visual prompts are two of the best ways to elicit interest and discussion at this stage. This particular reading uses a question as the heading; “Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?” and is also visually supported by two pictures. Hence I chose to combine the
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Assignment 1: Language Analysis Part A: Mary goes to work at 8.30. A) The name of the structure (if there is one) Present simple tense B) The form of the structure Subject + base form-es C) The function Describing habits and routines D) The phonological features Weak form: to > / ’tә / Sentence stress: Depends on the context. Intonation: Falling at the end. Pronunciation: Mary > / ’meɪrɪ / E) Possible student difficulties Conceptual difficulty:
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CELTA Written Assignment 3 Language Skills Related Tasks Lucy Gudgeon-Brennand The authentic reading text I have chosen for Elementary students is a recipe page from a popular magazine and is approximately 150 words long‚ excluding ingredients. The reason I have chosen this text is because it is current‚ relevant to daily life‚ informative‚ visually appealing‚ and also based on a topic that people are naturally interested in – food. The universally familiar format this article takes; list‚ photographic
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Cambridge CELTA Course Assignment 3 Skills Related Task Selection of a reading or listening text with rationale‚ tasks and lesson plan design Trainee: Minoo Date: Feb 18‚ 2015 Appendix 1: Handouts Appendix 3: Answer key Appendix 2: Text Purpose: According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text the main skill which is going to be practiced
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LEARNERS AND LEARNING ASSIGNMENT 4 INTRODUCTION Students learning English as a foreign language are often confronted with the challenge of learning and using English effectively. Some students seem to cope with the difficulties of language learning with great success and neither little effort‚ while for others the task is neither an enjoyable nor a successful one. What is it that makes learning a new language so easy for some and so difficult for others? One reason is that “each student has his/her
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Practice‚ Macmillan Oxford Arnold‚J & Fonseca CA‚ Multiple Intelligence Theory and Foreign Language Learning:A Brain-based Perspective International Journal of English Studies Sheerin‚S 1989 Self Access (Oxford: OUP) pp 4 – 6 (hand out) Harmer‚J 2001 ‘Learner Styles and Motivation’ from The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ Longman (handout)
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Assignment one - Language related tasks Word count: 994‚ excluding quotes‚ references and phonemic script. She used to drive to work. A. Used to describes an action/s that happened in the past and has since stopped. It can also be applied to things that were true but no longer are‚ for example ’there used to be a regular bus service ’. B. Draw a character on the board‚ elicit from ss a name‚ gender‚ where they live‚ where they go for fun and how they get to work (making sure include
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other disciplines. I am particularly interested in the CELTA course because of the course contents‚ its relevance to English language teaching‚ the certificate recognition‚ perhaps better teaching positions with more challenging portfolios in the future and most of all‚ self-fulfilment as one could not be more satisfied with a course regulated and assessed by the University of Cambridge and conducted by its affiliates. Pursuing the CELTA course will enable me to become a certified and internationally
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Application Form |For Office Use Only: Application received: ____________ Interview: Status: | | |Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults 2012/2013 | | | | | |Please circle: Intensive |
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