PRE-INTERVIEW LANGUAGE AWARENESS TASK A. STRUCTURES 1. Give an example of each of the following tenses (1 sentence each) Present simple The earth orbits the sun. Present continuous I am preparing my exam. Past simple Underground staff went on strike last Monday. Past continuous I was reading while he was watching television. Present perfect simple I have completed my dissertation successfully. Present perfect continuous I have been working at the school since 2008. Present
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What it Takes GEN/200- Foundations for General Education and Professional Success Steven Lopez June 28‚ 2013 WHAT IT TAKES For a young person the term personal responsibility is an abstract concept that is mostly learned the hard way. College is expensive and mentally hard‚ but going back to school while working full time and having a family of your own is especially rough. Personal responsibility is not only important for the individual but for society in general
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There is approximately two and a half months that high school students get off before they go to college. Those are the last few months when kids get to “hang out a little‚ learn to take it slow.” (16) However‚ instead of “hanging out” kids need to make sure they have a job or some other way of getting enough money to make it through college; they need to make sure they are prepared emotionally‚ mentally‚ and socially for this huge life change. Kids have to learn how to live on their own‚ make new
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Look at the sentences below and identify the following: the verb form and structure the meaning (contrast the vocabulary items in number 4) possible student difficulties (in terms of form‚ meaning and phonology) a likely context through which you could teach the language (who says this sentence to whom and why?) check questions you might ask to check understanding (think about this in relation to your answer for b)‚ your analysis of the function/meaning)
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Advantages of working mother/housewife • More disposable income • Freedom to make independent financial choices with own money • Meet more people • Equal relationship • Have a life outside of home Disadvantages of working mother • Discrimination in the workplace when colleagues find you have a child • Risk being critisized for not being home to care for child • Less time for yourself • Problems with finding good child care • Juggling work with sick kids • Spending almost
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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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Mother to Mother The purpose of this paper is to introduce‚ discuss‚ and analyze the book "Mother to Mother" by Sindiwe Magona. Specifically‚ it will critically analyze the book. The book "Mother to Mother" is a touching and elegant story of race relations and misunderstanding in South Africa. The author bases her book on a true incident‚ but looks at it from the eyes of a mother who loves her son but recognizes his inadequacies. It is a devastating look at apartheid‚ violence‚ and anger
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Single Mothers Many women take for granted the freedoms that they have today. Some have forgotten what their own mothers and grandmothers went through. Women have started to receive many of the same rights that men do in the work place and at home. At home many women find it more socially acceptable to be single with a child. No longer does society look down on this. This relatively new sense of feminism has helped cause the growing trend of single mothers. With divorce on the rise‚ the dilemma
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(I had to resubmit this because I did not give enough detail for 2 of my weaknesses - if I can figure out how I will add the resubmission for which I got good feedback) Observation I have learned from observing my peers and experienced teachers how important it is to use a variety of teaching methods and styles. Within the same lesson I have witnessed teachers organising their students so that they worked alone‚ in pairs‚ in pods‚ and in teams. The students were encouraged to move around
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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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