http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aCELTA+tag%3aCountable+nounsSearch results for 'tag:CELTA tag:Countable nouns' matching tags 'CELTA' and 'Countable nouns'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/CeltaInterview/grwjg/post.htmMon, 21 Apr 2008 22:27:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:503597anonymous Hello I need some help with celta preinterview task II know the mistakes however I have no idea how to explain them easily I m new to all teachers world so please help me I ve got some ideas for the answers but the biggest problem for me is to explain to students so they understand could anyone help me please Each of the exchanges below contains a mistake In each case a indicate what the mistake is b write in the correct version in the box c write in simple terms an explanation that the student would understand 1 I d like some informations about your courses Certainly here s our brochure informations is a mistake it is an uncountable noun and plural itself so we don t add s to the plural form 2 What does your teacher look like He looks like tall looks like is a mistake we say he is tall no idea how to explain that 3 What did you do last night Oh I watched a very bored programme on television bored is a mistake we say boring we use the present participle don t know again 4 Why didn t you answer the telephone Because I had a bath I was having a bath should be becase we say the reason Imagine you are teaching a multilingual group of 12 adult learners at BEGINNER level a What problems might your students have in i understanding ii pronouncing and iii using these items i I ve got a headache have got possession ii comfortable pronouncing table as an object of a classroom iii What s the matter matter issue http://www.englishforums.com/English/PreCeltaCourseGrammarTask/bbkjk/post.htm#91487Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:36:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:91487simplepastI ve just had a Celta pre course interview after which I was offered a place The interviewer went through the language awareness task that I d submitted and asked me how I would respond to a couple of questions that an efl student beginner might ask One question I recall was What is a daffodil The grammar questions were basic and about tenses What is present continuous and what is past simple I was asked if I knew the difference between countable and uncountable nouns I wouldn t worry too much about the grammar aspect If it s your native language you ll know how to use it but probably don t know the terminology yet That s one reason you re taking the course I was also asked why I wanted to teach and what qualities did I think I had that would help to make me a good teacher By the way if you haven t decided on the venue of this particular course and you re based in the UK you might consider looking at the Brooklands College Weybridge Celta It s only 360 for the 4 weeks Starts 20th June Good luck with the interview Let us know how it goes http://www.englishforums.com/English/NounWorkCountableUncountable/pbzm/post.htmTue, 15 Feb 2005 11:11:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:74081pottolomI am a native English speaker and have recently started working at an engineering firm in Eastern Europe as an environmental scientist One of my roles within the company is to teach English to staff and I recently noticed that many of the company s employees use the noun works for example we will carry out engineering works I am qualified to teach English as a foreign language CELTA and I have always been taught that work is an uncountable noun similar to water i e we don t say I have a lot of works in the same way that we don t say I have a lot of waters The noun work is also listed as an uncountable noun in dictionaries In understood that the only exception was when referring to a factory or similar e g a steel factory can be called a steelworks I told the staff about this mistake during my English lessons but one of them came to me today and pointed out that in the FIDIC an engineering institute guidebook Conditions of Contract for Construction work is used as a countable noun with considerable frequency I looked at the contents page and saw several examples for example Commencement of Works Taking Over of Parts of the Works etc At the same time I can also see that work has been used as an uncountable noun in the book for example Resumption of Work Suspension of Work etc As far as I m concerned this appears to be a mistake but maybe I m wrong As a scientist I m not overly familiar with engineering terms maybe that s the problem Can anyone help me with this at all When can work be used as a countable noun