Lanoue‚ G. (1991). Language loss‚ language gain: Cultural camouflage and social change among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia.” Language in Society (2) 87-115. This article describes an ethnographic study of the Sekani Indians of north-central British Columbia‚ whose way of life had been changed dramatically in the late 1960s by the construction of a man-made lake and the resulting flooding of a large part of the tribe’s homeland‚ which forced their resettlement. Lanoue‚ who had originally
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SUNILA SOUTHGATE COLLEGE CELTA COURSE PRE- INTERVIEW TASK 1. In each of the following sentences underline the verb or verb and identify the form/ tense used. a) We never go to the theatre these days. Present Simple b) We are saving up to travel abroad Present Perfect Continuous c) We have already been to Europe. Past Perfect d) We didn’t have enough money to go further. Past Simple e) We had spent all our savings by the end of the summer. Past Perfect f) We had
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1. She’s meeting Fred at 3 o’clock Name: Present continuous Form: Subject + form of the verb to be + present participle Function: A planned event to take place in the future (pre arranged plan) The phonological features: She’s meeting. Sh:iz is the contracted form of she is. May have problems pronouncing He’s /z/– She’s pronounced / / of the clock – o’clock pronounced / / weak forms: at – pronounced / / Intonation: falling at the end of the sentence. Sentence stress: “Fred”….. Difficulties:
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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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Language Analysis | February 26 2008 | Candidates should demonstrate an ability to analyse language for teaching purposes and show understanding of basic ELT terminology relating to form‚ meaning and language use. | Assignment 2 | He takes after his father Context: Students listen to a short dialogue (a married couple have just had a baby boy) A. Congratulations Julie! How are you? B. I’m fine thanks. I’m feeling much better now. A. So...where is he? Wow‚ look at his
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I would like the opportunity to partake in the CELTA course at TBI‚ so I am able to increase my knowledge and experience‚ whilst simultaneously being able to assist students’ in their own understanding of the English language. By gaining the CELTA qualification at your institute‚ I will be equipped to continually encourage my students’ towards reaching their language goals by building on the foundation of knowledge they already have. My future aims and intentions are to train to be a teacher of
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my TESL class which is the Task-Based Language Teaching. This had sounded so interesting for me for in a first look of its title‚ this approach appeared to have surely integrated activities specifically‚ ‘tasks.’ A book of David Nunan‚ main proponent of Task-based language teaching‚ describes this approach by giving a basic distinction between what was called real-world or target tasks‚ and pedagogical tasks: target tasks‚ as the name implies‚ refer to uses of language in the world beyond the classroom;
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CELTA – Assignment 3 Learner Profile I interviewed ******** an Iranian 31 year old female student in the Level I class. ****’s native language is Persian (Farsi). **** came to England a year ago to join her Iranian husband who has been living and working in England for the past 5 years. At present they have no children. She has only been attending class at college for a few weeks where she is also taking a class in mathematics in order to learn the correct English terminology. **** is an
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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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ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Candidates can demonstrate their learning by: a) analysing language correctly for teaching purposes b) correctly using terminology relating to form‚ meaning and phonology when analysing language c) accessing reference materials and referencing information they have learned about language to an appropriate source d) using written language that is clear‚ accurate and appropriate to the task Length: 750 - 1‚000 words This assignment follows on directly
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