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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Christopher Clayton CELTA Assignment 1 ISE Language LTD Centre No. 56108 Assignment 1: Focus on the learner Background For this assignment I chose Fernando; a 25 year old Spanish male from Seville. Fernando is an upper intermediate student‚ and is currently preparing to undertake his First Certificate examination. Fernando has been living in England for 6 months‚ since he graduated from university in Spain last year. He has been learning English since he was 11‚ but has only
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Language Related Tasks Part A 1. A) She’s meeting Jack at 3 o’clock. Present continuous. B) Subject + to be + verb + ing +. C) Meaning: It is referring to an action that will take place at a pre-arranged time in the future. Use: It is used to talk about an arranged action that will happen in the future‚ and the time is specified. D) ‘She’s meeting...’ is the contracted form of ‘She is meeting..’ it is pronounced as ‘Shiz’ /∫Iz/. E) Students
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WHY DO YOU WANT TO APPLY FOR CELTA? EXPERIENCE As a teacher by profession‚ I have taught children of different age groups with different abilities from different backgrounds. It has been and is still is an amazing profession because you never stop learning new things and impacting lives and making a positive difference in the lives of children. I was losing my passion and joy for teaching but gained it back when I went to teach in Japan for 2 years. It was 2 years of rediscovering my joy for
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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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CELTA Pre-course task Section 1 Task 1 1. Monolingual‚ adult group classes‚ part time‚ mixed gender‚ similar ability‚ day‚ teachers with English speaking backgrounds 2. After the course finishes I will be teaching the same. Task 2 1. I decided to teach adults because I like to listen to the various life experiences the adults have‚ I also like the adults hunger and willingness to learn. Adults are usually very motivated and make for an interesting class. 2. I find I’m well suited
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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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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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Manchester Academy Teacher Training (UK) Ltd. Pre-course grammar test NAME: ___________________________________ DATE: ____________ I confirm that I have completed this test alone and unaided. Signature: _______________________________________ A. Some of the following sentences contain typical mistakes made by native speakers of English. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the sentence is correct‚ put in a tick. 0. We was walking on the pavement. 1. You should drive slow here.
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Cambridge CELTA Course Assignment 3 Skills Related Task Selection of a reading or listening text with rationale‚ tasks and lesson plan design Trainee: Minoo Date: Feb 18‚ 2015 Appendix 1: Handouts Appendix 3: Answer key Appendix 2: Text Purpose: According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text the main skill which is going to be practiced
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