I love languages because‚ in my opinion‚ learning a language is like watching a new movie. While you are watching‚ every scene‚ every word of the characters give you some clues about the story and in every minute of that movie‚ you are looking for new clues to put them into suitable places in your mind‚ like doing a puzzle. Teaching a language makes you feel like you are acting in that movie as your favorite character. As a foreign language‚ English has been my passion since I was a child. After
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Cambridge CELTA assignment: Focus on the learner Part A My student’s name is Corrado‚ he’s 42 years old and his L1 is italian. He is an entrepreneur. In fact‚ he owns a bar where he works with two friends. However‚ he doesn’t need English at work as I thought. He loves to travel and that’s the main reason for him to learn English: he’s been to London many times and he would like to travel to the US as well and also he likes to organize his own trips so he needs English also to book hotels and
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to past time). (Must/’ve + past participle). Structure: modal + have+ past participle Must have + past participle CCQ’s: 1. Is she at work now? (No) 2. Do I think she has already gone home? (Yes) 3. Am I 100% sure about this? (No) 4. How sure am I? (99%) 5. Do I think it’s very likely (Yes) 6. What would I say if I was 100% sure? (She has gone out) 7. Am I talking about the past? (yes) Phonological features: contraction of must+have to ‘ve. weak form /məs(t)/
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passage [ refer to your photocopied text Start- pg 16. Estragon: (Violently.) I’m hungry. / End pg 18. Estragon: Nothing to be done. (He proffers the remains of the carrot to Vladimir.) Like to finish it?] and how it reflects the concerns in Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot presents a bleak caricature of the human condition in order to examine more closely the key theme of existentialism. This short passage is symptomatic of the rest of the play‚ effectively condensing its concerns about human existence
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CELTA – Language Related Tasks 1. a vandal - (intermediate) a) ‘A vandal’ can be defined as ‘someone who destroys or damages buildings’. b) One way of eliciting ‘a vandal’ can be to show different pictures that focus on an individual damaging and breaking property. Ask the class the following question to draw the answer out of them: What do you call the man who is doing this? (while pointing at the person in the picture) c) The following concept check questions can be asked:
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the action of those characters. Waiting for Godot is a prime example of such plays‚ where a character‚ Godot‚ never appears but is the basis of the play. The absence of Godot in Waiting for Godot‚ affects the characters’ actions and the development of the theme‚ that society is characterized by inaction and the ability lacked by individuals to communicate effectively. Godot is an individual that Didi and Gogo are waiting for on a park bench. This act of waiting leads to the conversation between
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CELTA ASSIGNMENT 1 – FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Part One Background The first part of the assignment focuses on the general overview of Entry 1 group who are majority females of South-Asian origin; also a Chinese‚ African & Arab learners are also enrolled in class. Learners of this group are housewives with little or no previous education background. They would have learnt Urdu or Gujarati in their country. The ages range between 24 and 45. The majority of learner’s first language speaks
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composed of two objectives‚ the main one being the students practicing listening‚ reading and in turn answering specific questions related to the text whilst the secondary objective was to test the students to practice vocabulary and pronunciation.The students were encouraged to discuss between each other the answers in the listening comprehension and talk about the subject matter in a personalized way. They were to learn new vocabulary related to the text. Judging from student feedback I was able to
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WHY I WISH TO BECOME AN ENGLISH TEACHER I wish to become an English teacher because English is my native language albeit with a New Zealand (Kiwi) accent and pronunciation and with the odd Maori word thrown in. I believe English to be the most common language used in the world and although it may not be the most common native language I believe it has become the default business language. The world is turning global with most of the borders and boundaries being merged into one very vibrant
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have a party. These utterances are all exponents of the function of suggesting. If our function is speculation‚ we can say: - If Macbeth hadn’t listened to the witches‚ he wouldn’t have murdered the king. - I think there’ll be a revolution in Egypt in the next ten years. - I reckon that before the middle of the century we’ll all be running our houses on wind power. These utterances are all exponents of the function of speculation. The function of an utterance can be deduced
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