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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Name: Assignment: Focus on the Learner Word count: 1006 PART 1 The students attending the pre-intermediate course are mostly Czech nationals (except one Polish student) and are in their early thirties to sixties. They all have a good level of motivation and their reasons for learning English include personal development‚ relocating to an English speaking country‚ obtaining a better job‚ travelling‚ teaching English at a higher level‚ and communicating with native speakers or family
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ASSIGNMENT 1 - FOCUS ON THE LEARNER PART A I interviewed a 26-year-old Italian in the Elementary English Class. He is a student at the University of Verona‚ studying International law. He can be described as both extrinsic and intrinsic learner because he said he is learning English for basically two purposes; first‚ for the course he is studying ’International Law’‚ which involves global communication‚ so with English he will be able to deal with international clients in the future. His
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1.….everything that has happened to us during the day ….. MEANING 1. “has happened” is a grammar structure used for actions which started in the past but continue up to now or to talk about actions that have a result now. Timeline: x (x)(x) has happened past present future CQs : Did it happen in the past? Yes. Is the day going on? Yes. Is it likely to happen some more events? Yes.
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1. My car was stolen. E-mails were written. 2. Used when: • we focus on the action in the past • it is not important who did the action but what happened to the subject in the sentence 3. i. I had a very bad day yesterday because I had an important meeting at work and I woke up late. I decided to go to work by car because I was in a hurry. I went outside my house but I couldn´t find my car. I looked everywhere and then I realized that my car was stolen. I don´t know who did it. ii
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1. Structure I’m living with my parents because... Analysis present continuous (progressive) Meaning: used to talk about a temporary action or state which began at some unknown point in the past‚ is currently in progress (or occurring repeatedly) and will be completed‚ or stopped at some point. The action has a limited duration and is usually taking place at the time of speaking‚ although sometimes it can refer to the future. Form: Present tense of verb ‘to be’ (am/are/is) + present
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perfect of the principal verb (it refers to past time). (Must/’ve + past participle). Structure: modal + have+ past participle Must have + past participle CCQ’s: 1. Is she at work now? (No) 2. Do I think she has already gone home? (Yes) 3. Am I 100% sure about this? (No) 4. How sure am I? (99%) 5. Do I think it’s very likely (Yes) 6. What would I say if I was 100% sure? (She has gone out) 7. Am I talking about the past? (yes) Phonological features: contraction
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CELTA Application Form Training and work experience Do you have any formal training as a teacher? No Do you have any experience of teaching? No 1. English as a foreign language? No 2. Other subjects: No Please supply details What other work experience do you have? I have previously worked as an Area Marketing Manager where I hired and trained 100 employees. I was responsible for their orientation‚ sales and promotional training‚ and personal development within the
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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 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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