Cambridge TESOL CELTA 08/07/2013 Assignment 2.4: Lessons from the classroom Part One: Evaluation of my teaching practice: I am compiling this self-evaluation report after my third teaching practice in the classroom. My teaching time lasted 40 minutes each time‚ and my class size varied between 15 and 16 students (ss) at a time. Classes comprised a good mixture of foreign ss‚ representing various European and non-European nationalities and cultures. The feedback I received on all
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CELTA ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE-RELATED TASK 1st pair of sentences: 1a) She’s lived there for years. 1b) She lived there for years. Form: 1a)’s conventional grammar term is ‘present perfect’‚ and its constituent parts are: subject + auxiliary verb has (conjugated here for ‘She’ i.e. has) + _____ed (i.e. past participle) 1b)’s conventional grammar term is ‘past simple’‚ and its constituent parts are: subject + ______ ed (i.e. past tense) The meaning of 1a) is that ‘she’ lived
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Language– Structure 1. Check in a grammar reference book and give examples of the following tenses. Give REALISTIC NATURAL examples that might commonly be spoken/written by a native speaker. a.Present Simple I wake up late. b.Present Continuous He is eating. c.Past Simple She sat down. d.Past Continuous They were still talking when I left. e.Present Perfect Simple He hasn’t lived in London for long. f.Present Perfect Continuous It has been
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Language Related Tasks Words: 881 A. 1. The gorilla was taken back to its cage. The paintings were stolen from the museum. 2. Used to talk about: When we want the object to be the subject The subject is not doing the action The ‘doer’ of the action is unknown or unimportant Something that happened at one point in the past. 3. i. A gorilla caused panic after escaping a Dutch zoo last week. Bokito‚ an 11-year-old gorilla‚ injured four people. After two hours the zookeepers were
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Problem Statement: Jose’s Mexican restaurant is a small yet popular spot. Lately they have been losing customers and profits due to service issues. In order to improve the restaurant‚ Jose’s Mexican Restaurant must provide service that is top-notch‚ in other words fast‚ efficient‚ great testing‚ convenient and heartwarming. What must the restaurant do in order to improve service? Areas for consideration: Quality at Jose’s restaurant should be defined by service‚ value‚ reliability of the
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Focus on the Learner – Assignment 1 1. Group Profile It’s a mixed group with a very mixed cultural background as only three students are actually from Germany. Four of the students were born in another country e.g. Lithuania‚ Turkey‚ France and Romania. They all moved to Germany as adults and all share German as a common language. The group is heterogeneous concerning the age they started learning English. Two students started learning as adults while the others started learning at school
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exploration‚ or in other ways‚ will start to syncretize aspects of each culture. A melting pot is a metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one. America is often called a melting pot. Brazil is a melting pot‚ the most authentic melting pot in the entire World. Brazilian culture is a mix of cultures from other parts of the world‚ it’s impossible to talk about Brazilian culture without the influences
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Authentic Relating (a summary and reflection on the paper: Participation or Alienation) Summary: Karol Wojtyla starts by positing the necessity of establishing a pre-understanding of the relation soi-autrui in the study of the difference between participation and alienation. He then clarifies problem of soi-autrui in that it crosses two cognitive situations. The first dealing with soi (I) in relation to its ontology and concrete action. And the second dealing with the concept of autrui
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Text Analysis I General information 1. Who is the author? 2. What is the title? 3. Is the title clear or obscure? 4. What feelings and expectations does the title arise? 5. Who is the narrator: ➢ The author him/herself (a person who knows everything about the facts and the characters but takes NO part in the action of the story) ➢ External narrator ( i. e. an outsider who speaks of people they knew but whose role in the plot is merely that of an observer)
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Case Study - Jose’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant Section1: Introduction Jose’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant is identified by its authentic style in terms of food and environment. It is proud to offer considerate services‚ and high quality food which makes with qualified fresh materials. So the overall quality of this restaurant is creditable. However‚ it is not yet perfect. I would say Jose’s has a great potential to be successful after it fixed all its problems‚ since it has a large number of
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