CELTA Assignment 1: Lessons from the classroom A. I think my main strength is that I like interacting with people. In my career thus far I have worked in multi-disciplinary teams‚ made daily presentations and managed teams so working with people is natural and comfortable for me. I’m friendly‚ inclusive and approachable. I think this is an asset that will carry me far as a teacher. I have experienced teachers who were intimidating and I found it detrimental to my learning. I want my students
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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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CELTA Pre-course task Section 1 Task 1 1. Monolingual‚ adult group classes‚ part time‚ mixed gender‚ similar ability‚ day‚ teachers with English speaking backgrounds 2. After the course finishes I will be teaching the same. Task 2 1. I decided to teach adults because I like to listen to the various life experiences the adults have‚ I also like the adults hunger and willingness to learn. Adults are usually very motivated and make for an interesting class. 2. I find I’m well suited
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LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Grammar item 1: …but sooner or later we have to sleep. Meaning In this sentence have to sleep is used to express the idea that we are obliged to sleep even if we don’t wish to do so. CCQs: Is it something we must do? Yes. Can we avoid it? No. Use of examples: We have to use the safety belt. Children have to attend school by law. Form Have to is a non-modal alternative to the modal verb must to talk about obligation. It is interchangeable with have
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Lesson Plan - Adverbs Lead in – Engage Ss and introduce topic of lesson Read my holiday story to Ss 3 min Stage 2 Read my holiday story again and ask Ss to listen more carefully this time to see if they can identify a word group that I have used a number of times in this passage. Ellicit from them adverbs mention that will only be looking at ly adverbs today. Put a couple of sentence on board as examples ie. Mark drives his car quickly‚ Sally sings beautifully ask students if they can
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Assignment 2 – Focus on the learner LEARNER’S PROFILE Sonia Meirelles is a 27-year old Brazilian student‚ in the Intermediate English class‚ who has been studying English for 13 months (since August‚ 2011). Sonia has a degree in Biology and used to work as a biology teacher in a regular school‚ however she is currently unemployed. She then decided to start taking English lessons‚ so she could have more chances when trying to find a job. She enjoys the English classes as she believes
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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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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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