CELTA-June 2013 Assignment 3: Skills-Related Part1: Justification of material choice For this Skills-related assignment‚ my choice of authentic reading material is “Few Places with Better Stories”. from Asian Geographic magazine (no 78 issue 1/2011‚ pages 30 and 35). As this magazine is widely read and it is also a popular TV channel‚ the students will be able to relate to it easily. I decided to use this article as I think it is appropriate for English Language learners at the Intermediate level
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Why shouldn’t Fan fiction be forbidden? (Positive and negative sides of fanfiction and which overbalance the others) Does fan fiction infringe the copyright? Yes‚ it does. And there are many people who consider fan fiction to be plagiarism or cheating. They claim that fan fiction writers are just thieves and some even consider these works to be immoral or illegal. In this essay I would like to present some arguments why fan fiction isn’t such a bad thing and why we should not try to forbid it
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WHY DO YOU WANT TO APPLY FOR CELTA? EXPERIENCE As a teacher by profession‚ I have taught children of different age groups with different abilities from different backgrounds. It has been and is still is an amazing profession because you never stop learning new things and impacting lives and making a positive difference in the lives of children. I was losing my passion and joy for teaching but gained it back when I went to teach in Japan for 2 years. It was 2 years of rediscovering my joy for
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Have you ever gotten shot by a policeman? I know a Dad who almost got shot. He was only in grade school when it happened. There was a stranger in the building with a gun. Their dad was in gym class when it happened. He was kind of scared because everyone was saying the stranger had a gun. What if a stranger with a gun used someone as a shield when the police was trying to shoot them. His mom put him on the bus. When he got to school he went to reading‚ social studies then he had a snack. After that
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now‚ is Mary sleeping? (No) H) Clarification of Concepts Visual Images of a woman going to work with clear indication of time (8.30) and a different day clearly shown on each picture (Monday-Friday) will be shown. Timeline: I used to have long hair: A) The name of the structure (if there is one) (No name) Phrasal verb B) The form of the structure Subject + used to + infinitive phrase C) The function Describing a discontinued past state. D) The phonological
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her friends are Japanese. Therefore‚ there is not a great urgency for her to speak very much English. This may be the reason why Akiko says she finds learning to speak English so difficult compared to reading and writing. Akiko does not currently have a job in England‚ but she used to volunteer at a day care centre in Cricklade. She would like to be employed but feels that her level of spoken English may be reducing her chances. Reading I assessed Akiko’s reading ability by asking her to complete
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students to engage fully with the text” (Harmer‚ 2007:271) The students will be asked to discuss the question in pairs or in groups of three. I will also remind students that there are no wrong answers at this stage. The resulting group discussions will have the students forming ideas about beauty and attractiveness and whether they are subjective or objective and will act as a transition into the subsequent reading task. This stage may also require a pre-teach vocab for the word “beholder”. If the students
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Manchester Academy Teacher Training (UK) Ltd. Pre-course grammar test NAME: ___________________________________ DATE: ____________ I confirm that I have completed this test alone and unaided. Signature: _______________________________________ A. Some of the following sentences contain typical mistakes made by native speakers of English. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the sentence is correct‚ put in a tick. 0. We was walking on the pavement. 1. You should drive slow here.
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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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Drinking age shouldn’t be change Many young people are drinking at an early age which shown it’s a public health problem in this country. Approximately five thousand underage die a year due to drinking. Research shows drinking at an early age can lead into alcoholic. Other research shows younger children drinking are more likely to be engaging in behaviors that harm themselves and others. Research believes‚ “Increasing the age at which people can legally purchase and drink alcohol has been the
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