CELTA Assignment 1- Focus on the Learner Hannah Rose Submission date: 26/4/2015 Learner Profile For this assignment‚ I interviewed a 48 year old male from Poland named Zbigniew or Zybi for short. He is currently in the elementary class at Manchester Academy of English. He arrived in the UK early on in 2012 with his family. He has lived in 3 different countries; 20 years in Greece before he came to England‚ Russia‚ as well as his native Poland. Zybi feels that there is a definite need for him to
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Ezekiel Amarh Celta Assignment 2: Focus on the Learner For this assignment‚ I interviewed Ibrahim A Rabie‚ a 46-year-old Sudanese student from my intermediate class. Ibrahim works night shifts as a security guard in west London and spends most of the day recovering from the long twelve hour shifts. Ibrahim’s first language is Arabic which he speaks at home with his wife. He came to England to live with her in 2007 and has been studying English on and off for the last year and a half. Ibrahim
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CAMBRIDGE CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2: FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Learning background Student M of French nationality who speaks French‚ became interested in English at an early age and has a high aspiration for learning English. She enjoys traveling and considers English crucial and useful in everyday life. She has been studying English irregularly in school and after that by herself and at various English language schools. She told me at school a lot of the focus was the grammar as
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PROBLEM: The “R” sound In Portuguese‚ R at the beginning of words‚ at the end of words‚ or before a consonant is pronounced like H. Many Brazilian students carry this habit into English words‚ pronouncing “restaurant” as “hestaurant” and “far” as “fah.” It’s especially common when the English word and the Portuguese word are similar‚ such as in “restaurant” and “regular.” SOLUTION: First‚ I have my students work on pronouncing the English R sound by itself. I demonstrate the correct mouth position
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Assignment 2: Focus on the Learner Part 1: Background a) I have been teaching an upper intermediate group made up of 12 Hungarian learners. Their ages vary from mid-twenties to early eighties the majority being between forty and sixty. Their interests include swimming‚ various outdoor activities and the arts. The majority of the learners wish to improve their English for a commutative purpose in order to further their careers for the purpose of travel or keep to in touch with friends/family. Accordingly
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level students of the Celta Teacher Training Program at International house Language School. She took part of the same program two years ago‚ but she didn’t continue studying English afterwards. Virginia studied English in primary and secondary school following a traditional teaching method‚ which used grammar as the starting point and foundation‚ for the development of all language skills — speaking‚ listening‚ writing‚ and reading‚ however there was relatively little focus on speaking and listening
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Christopher Clayton CELTA Assignment 1 ISE Language LTD Centre No. 56108 Assignment 1: Focus on the learner Background For this assignment I chose Fernando; a 25 year old Spanish male from Seville. Fernando is an upper intermediate student‚ and is currently preparing to undertake his First Certificate examination. Fernando has been living in England for 6 months‚ since he graduated from university in Spain last year. He has been learning English since he was 11‚ but has only
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Assignment Focus on the Learner 1. I chose to assess Marine who is a mature student and of French nationality‚ she is married and has two teenage children. (Her level of English is intermediate but still requires good flow and a greater repertoire of vocabulary). Marine used to work as a legal assistant and has finished her training to be a patent assistant. This involves working with lawyers where English is becoming an important requirement‚ not just reading but writing and conversing with
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Focus on the Learner Shahid Adam Esat Word count: 1055 Learner Profile Gaby Kabengue is a 20 year old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been living in Johannesburg‚ South Africa for just over two months and attends the English language lessons offered at Language Lab. Gaby has a lively persona and a keen interest in learning the language‚ it is for these reason that I chose him for this assignment. Although Gaby holds no formal higher education qualifications he has had some
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Assignment 1: Focus on the learner 1. Profile My student´s name is Francisco Morales‚ he is 30 years old and of Chilean nationality. Francisco is in an Elementary English class and has only been studying English for 2 months. He had English lessons at University but these were mainly focused on reading. Francisco said he did not learn a lot through these and therefore had to take another course now‚ mainly for work purposes. Francisco works in the Pharmaceutical industry‚ specifically in
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