Language Analysis | February 26 2008 | Candidates should demonstrate an ability to analyse language for teaching purposes and show understanding of basic ELT terminology relating to form‚ meaning and language use. | Assignment 2 | He takes after his father Context: Students listen to a short dialogue (a married couple have just had a baby boy) A. Congratulations Julie! How are you? B. I’m fine thanks. I’m feeling much better now. A. So...where is he? Wow‚ look at his
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1. The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow. (a) the present simple + time marker subject + verb ‘to leave’ in the present simple tense + time marker (b) Talking about a future event with an externally scheduled timeframe. (c) Students may have some difficulty understanding the concept that the event being referred to is taking place in the future but the sentence is using the present tense. (F) Students may confuse the verb form ‘leaves’ with ‘leaves’‚ the noun form meaning plural of ‘leaf’. (M)
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because they recently moved to Boston or are attempting to. Many of them are very interested in learning more about American culture. It can be a hurdle for them to find reading at their level that still gives the amount of incite into the American life that they are looking for. For my skills related lesson I’ve chosen to do a reading and speaking fluency lesson. The text I’ve chosen is the first paragraph from page one of the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac‚ published by New American Library in 1955
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Cambridge CELTA Course Assignment 3 Skills Related Task Selection of a reading or listening text with rationale‚ tasks and lesson plan design Trainee: Minoo Date: Feb 18‚ 2015 Appendix 1: Handouts Appendix 3: Answer key Appendix 2: Text Purpose: 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 the main skill which is going to be practiced
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I would like the opportunity to partake in the CELTA course at TBI‚ so I am able to increase my knowledge and experience‚ whilst simultaneously being able to assist students’ in their own understanding of the English language. By gaining the CELTA qualification at your institute‚ I will be equipped to continually encourage my students’ towards reaching their language goals by building on the foundation of knowledge they already have. My future aims and intentions are to train to be a teacher of
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Lead In/Prediction Harmer explains that the lead in stage is “where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema” or “pre-existent knowledge of the world” (Harmer‚ 2007:271) Questions and pictures or visual prompts are two of the best ways to elicit interest and discussion at this stage. This particular reading uses a question as the heading; “Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?” and is also visually supported by two pictures. Hence I chose to combine the
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Cambridge CELTA Pre-Interview Task Name ______________________________________________________________________ Complete this task carefully. It is an important factor in considering your application. CELTA is an intensive four-week course of study. Because of this‚ candidates need to be fully prepared for the demands of the course and show that they are able to research language structures‚ a skill required of ESL teachers. Keep in mind that we cover language analysis on the CELTA course‚ so
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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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date: …………………………….....….…………. I have chosen a reading text titled “How to be a good traveller” due to travel’s relevance to the students. All of our students are from another country‚ and many of them have expressed desires to visit other countries. A text that gives good advice for travelers to follow should prove both interesting and useful to the students. The receptive skills tasks I designed for this lesson will focus on reading for gist and reading for specific information. Students could also
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CELTA Written Assignment 3 Language Skills Related Tasks Lucy Gudgeon-Brennand The authentic reading text I have chosen for Elementary students is a recipe page from a popular magazine and is approximately 150 words long‚ excluding ingredients. The reason I have chosen this text is because it is current‚ relevant to daily life‚ informative‚ visually appealing‚ and also based on a topic that people are naturally interested in – food. The universally familiar format this article takes; list‚ photographic
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