words that are unknown can either easily guessed or safely ignored” (quote from A Course in Language Teaching‚ P Ur in page 149. From my perspective as a teacher: 1. Easily exploited: This authentic text can be exploited as part of a reading lesson aim for students of an intermediate level in order to help “provide our students with the opportunities to do as much (successful) reading as possible‚ including a varied diet of types of reading. (Quote from A Course in Language Teaching‚ P Ur in
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1. Choosing the text Both Harmer and Scrivener are very direct with their advice for choosing texts for reading and listening: Grade the tasks‚ not the material. Despite keeping this in mind I felt anxious about possibly choosing an authentic text that would be discouraging for our group of elementary-level students due to its complexity. I settled on a list of tips for saving energy published on the National Geographic Kids website (see Appendix 1). I chose this text because we have
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SECTION 1 Learners and Teachers‚ and the Teaching and Learning Context A: TEACHING AND LEARNING CONTEXTS Task 1 1. In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? The context that I will be doing the CELTA course is as an already experienced teacher‚ having worked in most types of the teaching contexts listed in the task. I have worked‚ for the past eighteen years mainly with young learners‚ although I have gained some experience with adult learners during that time also. Having lived
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TASK 1: In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? As a candidate I will be attending a full time course‚ for which the gender maybe mixed‚ but at present I am only aware of the male candidates whom I met at the school interview. As a relatively small open group‚ our educational and employment backgrounds will be mixed but with all 12 candidates having met the schools requirements and received an acceptance letter. All candidates have the same interest to teach English as a foreign
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS 1) The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow. a) Present simple; present form of the verb. b) Talking about a future event. ‘The present simple is used for ‘timetabled’ future events’ . c) Students may use the infinitive of the verb instead of the present. (F) Students may use ‘ing’ (present participle) form of verb. (F) Students may have difficulty understanding the use of the present simple to talk about the future. (M) Students may have difficulty
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The purpose of this assignment is to examine and explain the reasons why I have chosen this specific article. According to what J. Scrivener says ‚ the usefulness and effectiveness of a text is related to how close to real-life the topic is. So I decided to pick an article that I spotted on a webpage a few days ago‚ it is a real news which reports the fact that young Chinese girls are literally queuing up to have their legs broken in order to be better able to find a rewarding job or a handsome
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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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CELTA Pre-Interview task Language awareness (please make notes) 1a.What problems of meaning might the following words present to a learner of English? a library a paper nervous get 1b.What problems might a learner of English encounter with the following pairs of words? live/leave ship/sheep glass/class dog/dock 1c.What problems might a learner of English encounter when wanting to write the following words? beginning necessary receive
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CELTA Pre-Course Task – Pamela Thomason Task 1 1. My CELTA course will be within a multilingual group in a fairly small mixed gender class. Fellow students will all have some kind of formal education. 2. After finishing my CELTA I’ll probably teach both one-to-one lessons and lessons in monolingual groups. Task 2 1. I decided to teach adults partly because it will be easier to find employment in this context but I also like the idea of teaching to someone who voluntarily
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interview I conducted with her‚ I discovered that the best style of teaching her is visually. I have noticed that during lessons with which contain visual elements (PowerPoint’s‚ pictures etc) she would be at the forefront of answering questions and volunteering for exercises. It appears she really enjoys herself and progresses well in these types of lessons as opposed to lessons without visual elements in them. In terms of her use and command of the English language‚ I have noticed that generally
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