CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Look at the sentences below and identify the following: the verb form and structure the meaning (contrast the vocabulary items in number 4) possible student difficulties (in terms of form‚ meaning and phonology) a likely context through which you could teach the language (who says this sentence to whom and why?) check questions you might ask to check understanding (think about this in relation to your answer for b)‚ your analysis of the function/meaning)
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CELTA Language Related Assignment Adrian Nicholas Crouch Date: 01.01.2011 Word Count:1‚740 PASS 1. The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow. Form Present tense referring to the future + time marker. definite article + subject + verb in the present simple tense + preposition + time marker Function/meaning Statement of fact/future action set by timetable or schedule. Context Someone who has arranged a holiday abroad and is confirming travel arrangements for the following day with a family member
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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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Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment Two Skills –related tasks Word count: 1082 I acknowledge that this paper is my own work. Trainee: Mileva Genadieva Signature: Date: 18.02.2013 Receptive skills: 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 “Playing with your food” the main skill that is being
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Language Related Tasks Part A 1. A) She’s meeting Jack at 3 o’clock. Present continuous. B) Subject + to be + verb + ing +. C) Meaning: It is referring to an action that will take place at a pre-arranged time in the future. Use: It is used to talk about an arranged action that will happen in the future‚ and the time is specified. D) ‘She’s meeting...’ is the contracted form of ‘She is meeting..’ it is pronounced as ‘Shiz’ /∫Iz/. E) Students
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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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Assignment 2 Rubric: Language related tasks On the next page is a typical text that you might get students to read in class. It contains some useful language. Look at the items from the text in the box below. Choose two of the grammar structures and two of the items of lexis and for each of them do the following: analyse the meaning‚ describing how you would check students’ understanding. Use concept checking questions and some other clarification techniques if necessary‚ e.g. timelines‚ personalisation
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text too complicated. 2. Receptive skill to practice: reading. Since this is a text‚ reading is the most appropriate skill to practice in this case. Sub-skills to focus on would be a) reading for gist and b) reading for specific information. Before starting the discussion about the text‚ I would show the students the picture from the article (without the title and the text itself visible). I would ask them to try to guess what the text might be about. a. Task 1: Reading for gist. Before
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big clock in the background. The time on the clock is 7pm. I am happy. Ask: Am I waiting for food? Yes Show picture 2 of myself sat at a table with a knife and fork in my hands. The time on the clock is 9pm. I am unhappy. Time line: Me ←-----------------------→ Past 7pm Now 9pm Future Ask: Am I still waiting? Yes Ask: How long? 2 hours Ask: Why am I unhappy? Because I’ve been waiting for two hours To elicit… “I’ve been waiting…” Concept Questions
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Assignment 2: Language related tasks. Lexis 1 We can put off sleeping for a limilted period. Meaning To decide or arrange to delay an event or activity until a later date or time * Concept questions: Do we want to do this now? No Will we delay this until a later time? Yes Will we complete it at some point in the future? Yes Other examples: A businessman who puts off a meeting or an important decision‚ students who put off doing their assignments‚ an engaged couple who puts
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