CELTA ASSIGNMENT 1 – FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Part One Background The first part of the assignment focuses on the general overview of Entry 1 group who are majority females of South-Asian origin; also a Chinese‚ African & Arab learners are also enrolled in class. Learners of this group are housewives with little or no previous education background. They would have learnt Urdu or Gujarati in their country. The ages range between 24 and 45. The majority of learner’s first language speaks
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Unit Two: The Classical Era in World History 500 BCE to 500 CE Ways of the World‚ Ch 4-7 Topics in these units will include: 1. What common features can you identify in the empires described in chapter 4? 2. In what ways did these empires differ from one another? What accounts for those differences? 3. In what ways did these empires differ from one another? What accounts for those differences? 4. Do you think that the classical empires hold "lessons" for the present‚ or are contemporary
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ASSIGNMENT 2 - FOCUS ON THE LEARNER. Background The learner is a 35 year old female from France. She is married with two children‚ and has lived in Oman for five years. The learner ’s first language is French. It is also the language that is spoken at home. Learner ’s profile The learner ’s level of English is between pre-intermediate to intermediate. She did not finish high school‚ and after grade 10‚ at the age of 16‚ she completed a certificate in disability studies. The learner studied English
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The Bush v Gore incident included George W. Bush‚ Al Gore‚ U.S. Supreme Court‚ and the state of Florida. Bush v Gore illustrates the fundamental power of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time in U.S. history the president was decided by the Supreme Court. According to Wade Payson-Denney‚ a journalist for CNN‚ stated that the election was divided by 537 people out of the six million ballots casted in Florida. Al Gore argued that the margin of error was too close being .009% and the possibility
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how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of The United States and 33rd Governor of California. Reagan represented the conservative Republican Party. Before his political career‚ Reagan acted in over 50 Hollywood films. As a child‚ he agreed with the Democratic Party‚ but as he grew older‚ he became a Republican. Reagan ran three times to become President of the Republican Party‚ and the third time‚ 1980‚ he won
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Ronald Reagan once famously said‚ “In this present crisis‚ government is not the solution to our problems‚ government is the problem.” In 1933‚ Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president‚ due to the Great Depression. He came up with something to help the people of America called The New Deal. It was meant to help the unemployed and starving. Sounds great‚ but what if those goal never came through? Both of those presidents‚ Reagan and FDR‚ are thought to be some of the greatest presidents
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Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts From 2007‚ the global financial crisis caused the global economy in turmoil. Because the crisis originally from the defaults of the U.S. subprimes mortgage market‚ the financial institutions are experiencing a dramatically hard time‚ especially five major U.S. investment banks. In the Unite States‚ the stock market decrease about 40% off‚ and the real estate prices also fell sharply‚ so the wealth of household had fallen. Because of this situation‚ household take
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George. H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush was born on July 6th 1946‚ in Milton‚ Massachusetts. He was born into a wealthy family. Bush’s family was politically active. As a student‚ Bush went to a boarding school in Andover‚ Massachusetts‚ called Phillips Academy. This school is where he met his wife Barbara Pierce. He was 17 and Barbara was 16. When he turned 18 he enlisted in the Navy. Bush fought in WWII and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He had a near death experience when his
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The Progressive Era The progressive era was a time of great change‚ the way people thought and what they did began to change quickly. Industry and business also changed a great deal in this era‚ with the many new inventions and strong businessmen things where rapidly changing. The progressive era lasted about 40 years‚ from 1879-1920. In 1879 Tomas Edison invented the electric light‚ I guess you could say he just lit the way for may other inventions that people made during this time period
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Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative Program “What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack‚ that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?” (Address 5). On March 23‚ 1983‚ President Ronald Reagan presented his vision of a future with a Nation’s security that did not rest upon the threat of a nuclear
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