taught by teachers who used both Czech and English in the classroom. The lessons were teacher-centred and focused on grammar‚ dictation and homework‚ leaving few opportunities for speaking practice. One student has also been attending English course offered by her employer‚ and also learns English independently. Two of the students are multilingual (they speak either German or French). A number of them have attended English lessons at Akcent IH in the past‚ which they enjoyed because they were exposed
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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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into consideration. xxxx enjoys the oral interaction exercises most of all. She doesn’t particularly dislike anything in the lessons‚ referring only to doing nothing while waiting for others to finish an exercise. Analysis To help xxxxx I believe some focus on speaking to give here more practice and improve her
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SECTION A: Function If the function is making suggestions‚ we can use the following structures: - Let’s have a party. - Why don’t we have a party? - How about having a party? - We could have a party. These utterances are all exponents of the function of suggesting. If our function is speculation‚ we can say: - If Macbeth hadn’t listened to the witches‚ he wouldn’t have murdered the king. - I think there’ll be a revolution in Egypt in the next ten years. - I reckon that before
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contexts Task 1 1. In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? The context of the CELTA course I believe will be: Monolingual Part-Time Open group Lessons in groups Mixed gender Same interest to teach English as a foreign language 2. Do you know what context you will be teaching in after you finish the course? If I get the job I have applied for I will endeavour to teach in the following context: Lessons in a group Monolingual Closed group Same
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1. She needn’t have got up so early. Meaning: Needn’t is short for need not. This action happened in the past. She got up early but it wasn’t necessary. Context Mary has a job interview tomorrow and she was feeling very nervous. The next day Mary woke up early to catch the 9am bus to her interview location. However she had forgotten that the interview was at 3pm. It was not necessary for Mary to get up so early. As a result she waited for several hours in a café. CCQs:
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Section 1 – Learners and Teachers and the Teaching and Learning Context A Teaching and learning contexts Types of contexts Task 1 1. In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? I am doing the CELTA course as part of a multilingual group‚ some of who have non-English speaking backgrounds. There are twelve people in total‚ who are separated into two smaller groups of six each. The course delivery is one full day and one evening at college‚ with preparation
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CELTA assignment 1: LRST 1. TEXT AND RATIONALE: The text I am selecting is a description of a clown who works in a circus‚ and a description of his everyday life. I chose this text for the following reasons: -INTEREST: Recent research has indicated that how interesting a text is will affect students’ cognitive performance. This kind of "interestingness‚" or text-based interest‚ was the focus of the study […] a content analysis performed on the recall protocols showed that the interest-evoking
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Functions and graphing functions Basics: A function is a rule that changes input into output A relation is any set of ordered pairs A function is defined as a set of ordered pairs in which no two ordered pairs have the same element A function must give exactly one unique output for each input Also called a mapping or simply a map The set of input numbers is called the domain The set of output numbers is called the range The set of all possible outputs is called the co-domain The range is generally
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CELTA Language Analysis Written assignment 2 N.B. Please write legibly in black ink or type. Content carries the most weight‚ but you are also marked on clarity‚ accuracy (e.g. grammar‚ spelling‚ punctuation) and presentation (see CELTA criteria). Please read the shaded boxes to see the marking criteria. If your assignment does not meet the specified criteria‚ you will be asked to resubmit it. If the second submission is not satisfactory you will be awarded a fail grade. More than one
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