Celta Pre-Interview Task

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 grammar 2.'won't' is the contracted for of ‘will not'. Why is it important to teach contractions in the classroom? 3. How would you explain why the following are not acceptable in English? a) I am knowing him very well/ b) I have lived there in 1987. c) May you open the window? d) I love it here, it is too good! 4. What would you say to a student who asked you to explain the difference in meaning between the following pairs of sentences? The first has been done as an example. a) We used to go to fishing for minnows in the holidays. b) We would go fishing for minnows in the holidays. Both mean that ‘we went fishing for minnows' at some time in the past and suggest that we don't do this activity now. The second one implies a sense of nostalgia, and can also only be used for repeated activities, not states - you can't say ‘I would live in England', which talks about a state. A a) I have bought a newspaper this morning. b) I bought a newspaper this morning. B a) If I win the lottery, I'll buy a new car. b) If I won the lottery, I'd travel round the world. C a) I remembered to sign the letter. b) I remember signing the letter. D a) She's got a few friends. b) She's got few friends. Writing Having read all the information about the CELTA course (in the information pack on Internet websites), what would you expect your strengths and weaknesses to be on the CELTA course? Write no more than150 words. Correction task Correct as many errors as you can find in 10 minutes and rewrite the paragraph below. Are You a Safe Driver? according wether we are male or femail, young or old, ocasional or reguler road-users, evry one of us has distictly personel views the habits of other kinds of drivers. men thinks woman cant drive, lorry drivers regard car drivers such as lunatics, while no one over thrity years off age thinks anyone under thrity should be aloud on road at all. statitics show that Britians safest moterists are those ones between fourty- five and fifty-four year's old, they are having offen more pracitise and experiance and have became more cautous. drivers under twenty-four are five times more then likely to be involvd in a crash