TASK 1: In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? As a candidate I will be attending a full time course‚ for which the gender maybe mixed‚ but at present I am only aware of the male candidates whom I met at the school interview. As a relatively small open group‚ our educational and employment backgrounds will be mixed but with all 12 candidates having met the schools requirements and received an acceptance letter. All candidates have the same interest to teach English as a foreign
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words that are unknown can either easily guessed or safely ignored” (quote from A Course in Language Teaching‚ P Ur in page 149. From my perspective as a teacher: 1. Easily exploited: This authentic text can be exploited as part of a reading lesson aim for students of an intermediate level in order to help “provide our students with the opportunities to do as much (successful) reading as possible‚ including a varied diet of types of reading. (Quote from A Course in Language Teaching‚ P Ur in
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1. Choosing the text Both Harmer and Scrivener are very direct with their advice for choosing texts for reading and listening: Grade the tasks‚ not the material. Despite keeping this in mind I felt anxious about possibly choosing an authentic text that would be discouraging for our group of elementary-level students due to its complexity. I settled on a list of tips for saving energy published on the National Geographic Kids website (see Appendix 1). I chose this text because we have
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DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE: She’s not very tall‚ with dark hair and blue eyes IL DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE Body She’s of medium height. She’s a woman of average height. She’s quite tall. She’s a woman of average height. She’s a woman of below average height. She’s not very tall. (→ She’s short.) He’s slim. He’s of medium build. He’s well-built. He’s rather plump (=not slim). He’s broad-shouldered. He’s quite muscular. He’s a bit overweight. (→
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| Learning English Describing a person Author: | sanya | Copyright: | Can use | Corrector’s skills: | Native‚ Perfect | Tags: | Describing a person | Language: | English | Progress: | processing: 0‚ ready corrections: 1‚ remains corrections: 0 | He is thirty five. He resides in a small apartment in the south of California. He has dark short hair‚ dark thick eyebrows and deep-set brown eyes with short straight lashes. He has a middle-sized nose‚ which is a bit hooked. He has a wide
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS 1) The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow. a) Present simple; present form of the verb. b) Talking about a future event. ‘The present simple is used for ‘timetabled’ future events’ . c) Students may use the infinitive of the verb instead of the present. (F) Students may use ‘ing’ (present participle) form of verb. (F) Students may have difficulty understanding the use of the present simple to talk about the future. (M) Students may have difficulty
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CELTA Assignment 1 I’ve been waiting here for two hours. 1. Meaning I was waiting here 2 hours ago. I am still waiting here. 2. Form Subject + have/has + past participle (been) + present participle 3. Pronunciation Contraction of I and have. Been has a short /i/. Stress on ‘/Wei/’ in waiting. 4. Eliciting Show picture 1 of a man standing with a clock above his head. The time is 12pm. Show picture 2 of the man still standing but the clock now says 2pm and he looks unhappy while
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CELTA Pre-Course Task – Pamela Thomason Task 1 1. My CELTA course will be within a multilingual group in a fairly small mixed gender class. Fellow students will all have some kind of formal education. 2. After finishing my CELTA I’ll probably teach both one-to-one lessons and lessons in monolingual groups. Task 2 1. I decided to teach adults partly because it will be easier to find employment in this context but I also like the idea of teaching to someone who voluntarily
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Describing Sensor Performance: When describing sensors and instrumentation systems we make use of a range of terms to quantify their characteristics and performance. It is important to have a clear understanding of this terminology‚ so we will look briefly at some of the more important terms. • Range: This defines the maximum and minimum values of the quantity that the sensor or instrument is designed to measure. • Resolution or discrimination: This is the smallest discernible change
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CELTA Pre-Interview task Language awareness (please make notes) 1a.What problems of meaning might the following words present to a learner of English? a library a paper nervous get 1b.What problems might a learner of English encounter with the following pairs of words? live/leave ship/sheep glass/class dog/dock 1c.What problems might a learner of English encounter when wanting to write the following words? beginning necessary receive
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