CELTA Pre-Interview task GOOD HOPE STUDIES Please complete the task below on a separate sheet. An interview can only be arranged on receipt of the task. We recommend that you consult a grammar book and a methodology book if possible. Recommended books: Grammar: Parrot‚ Martin – Grammar for English Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press) Swan‚ Michael – Practical English Usage (Oxford University Press) Methodology: Jim Scrivener – Learning Teaching (Macmillan) Jeremy Harmer – How
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scholastic knowledge of English‚ having learnt the language at school as part of the compulsory curriculum. Those who don’t‚ have at least 1 to 2 years experience of learning the language and a number of them have already attended the course taught by CELTA trainees in previous years. As for learning styles there is a core group of retired teachers (mainly Italian and Latin) who I perceive to have a strong linguistic approach. This also emerges from the interviews we had with them on our first day of
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Candidate’s name Ismail Eyamba ________ Focus on the Learner 800 – 1000 words Use the following check list to ensure you have included everything in this assignment. Use this page as your cover sheet. Check that you have: stated the level of the student provided an account of your learner’s language learning background and learning experiences included details of your learner’s motivations for learning English provided an account of your learner’s preferred
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Introduction For this assignment I interviewed a Japanese student called Akiko. Akiko originates from North Tokyo and moved to England 3 and a half years ago with her husband and her son. Akiko has a very good level of education with a degree in Psychology which she obtained in Japan. She learnt English as a compulsory subject at school and has been learning to speak English for the past 10 years. Akiko would eventually like to teach English to children in Japan. As well as English‚ Akiko can
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Assignment One Focus on the Learner Submission date: July 16‚ 2013 Word count: 875 words Learner profile In order to complete this assignment I decided to observe one of the students from the elementary group. Her name is Diana. She is 21 years old. Her background is as follows: * Diana’s first language is Kazakh‚ but you can say that Russian is her first language as well‚ since at home she uses the first one‚ and for education – the second. She is fluent in both languages. * Diana
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Assignment 1: Language Analysis Part A: Mary goes to work at 8.30. A) The name of the structure (if there is one) Present simple tense B) The form of the structure Subject + base form-es C) The function Describing habits and routines D) The phonological features Weak form: to > / ’tә / Sentence stress: Depends on the context. Intonation: Falling at the end. Pronunciation: Mary > / ’meɪrɪ / E) Possible student difficulties Conceptual difficulty:
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FOCUS ON THE LEARNER ASSIGNMENT Part One Anjou was born in Italy and speaks Italian. She has one brother and one sister. She enjoyed growing up there as she had a good social life. She spent a lot of doing physical activities. As a young child she regularly went swimming and played volleyball. She loves listening to music and enjoys long strolls in the park and riding her bike. Anjou likes the life in London; she feels it has a lot to offer. She really enjoys the multi cultural side of
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We are almost half way through the CELTA course and it is admirable that all of us have had such a tremendous growth curve. Personally‚ I know I have become much more confident about standing in front of a classroom full of students and talking about different aspects of English language. I discovered the very first day that it was important to establish a good rapport with the students and be comfortable talking with them. I learned it was also important to engage students in conversation rather
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Assignment one - Language related tasks Word count: 994‚ excluding quotes‚ references and phonemic script. She used to drive to work. A. Used to describes an action/s that happened in the past and has since stopped. It can also be applied to things that were true but no longer are‚ for example ’there used to be a regular bus service ’. B. Draw a character on the board‚ elicit from ss a name‚ gender‚ where they live‚ where they go for fun and how they get to work (making sure include
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Lead In/Prediction Harmer explains that the lead in stage is “where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema” or “pre-existent knowledge of the world” (Harmer‚ 2007:271) Questions and pictures or visual prompts are two of the best ways to elicit interest and discussion at this stage. This particular reading uses a question as the heading; “Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?” and is also visually supported by two pictures. Hence I chose to combine the
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