CELTA December 2013 Assignment 3: Skills Related The receptive skill chosen for this assignment is reading‚ and the authentic material used for the purpose of developing this skill is an article entitled‚ Greenwich is packed full of London’s most popular attractions [1]‚ which will be related to the productive skill of writing. The learners reside in London and come from EU countries (mostly Italy)‚ and motives for learning the English language vary. The age factor of the students may suggest
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17/05/10 Cambridge ESOL CELTA Written Assignment 1 Language Skills Assignment PART 1 For the purpose of English language teaching‚ teachers tend to refer to four particular skills- reading‚ writing‚ speaking and listening. (Harmer‚ 2007) Reading and listening are known as receptive skills. Both of these processes require meaning to be derived from material that is being listened to or read. Speaking and writing are known as productive skills. In the case of both of these processes language
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Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment: Language Related Task (LRT Part 2) Read all instructions carefully before you start this assignment. Checking Understanding Write concept questions for the underlined language items below (together with their expected answers)‚ which could be used in order to check students’ understanding. Draw pictures‚ diagrams or time-lines where appropriate and remember the basic principles outlined in the concept checking input session. All visuals should include a
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS 1. The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow Form Present simple for future time The definite article + subject + verb in present simple tense + preposition + time marker Anticipated learner problems Students may add –ing to the verb as they may get confused by the fact that even though the verb is present simple‚ we are referring to a future event. Concept check questions Is he going today or is he going tomorrow? Is this about
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Celta assignment 1 may use the infinitive oppose to the simple present for example tomorrow Students may fail to understand the reference to a future event because the use of a simple present. Students may struggle to pronounce the weak form in “the” and “at” Students The plane leaves at 10:00 tomorrow. A- Present simple + time marker Subject + verb in present simple tense + time marker B- Talking about a scheduled future event C- Students may find it difficult to use the present tense
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LANGUAGE SKILLS RELATED TASKS 2.3 1: A rationale for your choice of text based on interest and usefulness. Do not provide a rationale based on discrete grammatical or lexical items. (Text is provided at Appendix 1) “A student finishing an Elementary course should be able to do or know the following: • talk about past time • make future plans or arrangements • describe people using simple adjectives • describe places sing simple adjectives • express
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of reading. (Quote from A Course in Language Teaching‚ P Ur in page 149. 2. Task Friendly: The chosen text has got an image of a girl in front of the computer‚ which will help with the “Before Reading task” of prediction while the rest of the text provides some ideas for me to construct possible “while Reading” task of checking their predictions and the ideas shared in this text can be used for the “post reading task”. 3. Acceptable: This authentic text sourced from a popular Malaysian newspaper
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CELTA Syllabus and Assessment Guidelines Third Edition CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is accredited by Ofqual (the regulator of qualifications‚ examinations and assessments in England) at level 5 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations 1 Hills Road Cambridge CB1 2EU United Kingdom Email: ESOLhelpdesk@CambridgeESOL.org www.CambridgeESOL.org EMC|2254|0Y12 © UCLES 2010 CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: CELTA SYLLABUS
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CAMBRIDGE CELTA Assignment 3 Receptive Skill Krishna Bahadur Bohora 1/7/2014 Assignment 3 I have selected a news article from an online entry of Telegraph Media Group Limited for ’Authentic Material for Reading’. The title of the text is ’Cyclist trapped under car for 30 minutes escapes with just cuts and bruises’. The text is selected for the learners of mid-intermediate level. The learners of this level have some knowledge of complex sentence structures and vocabulary
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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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