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Re: Pre CELTA course grammar task

Anonymous — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:36:45 GMT

As part of the interview, you will be given some language awareness tasks. This is designed to help us assess your ability to analyse your own language. It is not a test of your knowledge of grammar rules. If you don't feel particularly confident, you might want to look at 'English Grammar in Use' (Murphy) or 'Learning Teaching (Scrivener) for the more practical side of teaching.

Re: Pre CELTA course grammar task

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:14:01 GMT

hello friend!

I'm Hassan from Morocco, I'm ,too, Celta applicant.

I advise you to buy English Grammar in Use, it's Mostly recommended.

Good luck!

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Re: teaching

Seonaid — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:04:16 GMT

Hello,

I'd recommend 'Learning Teaching' by Jim Scrivener. This is one which is recommended during CELTA courses and is a nice introduction.

There is also a series of books called 'How to teach ..'. For example, I liked 'How to teach Grammar' by Scott Thornbury, and the series includes 'How to teach Vocabulary', 'How to teach Writing' and so on.

Decent coursebooks such as the Headway series also have quite a lot of good ideas in the teachers' books, which can be helpful when you're starting.

I do recommend a CELTA though if you can manage it in the future, it's really useful to get such a lot of feedback on your teaching.

If you need any help with your grammar (if you are a native speaker, and so perhaps not completely au fait with the ins and outs of English grammar) I'd recommend 'Grammar for English language Teachers' by Martin Parott, and 'Practical English Usage' by Michael Swan.

Best wishes,

Seonaid

Re: Correcting English mistakes, Approaches to Teaching and Learning English

vickijane — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:37:05 GMT

Re: profound lesson in basic English grammar.
Hi Claudius,
Greetings from the 5th. district.
This is just to let you know that I will try to contact you soon, as I have an idea concerning CELTA which I'd like to share with you. I will leave my name and number and hope you'll give me a call.
Servus
Victoria

Correcting English mistakes, Approaches to Teaching and Learning English

Claudius — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:47:17 GMT

Hello everybody,

I will be most thankful and will appreciate very much, if one of you could help me in correcting the below exchanges
and advice to the Tasks below; Please note, I will be grateful to receive corrected versions in simple termes and grammartical explanation to the corrections.

Since I am preparing for the CELTA Cambridge Certficate in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages course here in Vienna, Austria. I am seeking for profession advice in Internet and also searching for Books in the following:

A. English grammar
B. Common Errors in English Laungage Usage.
C. English Drafting and Editing

To be corrected:
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1. "I`d like some informations about your courses."
"Certainly, here`s our brochure."

Correction:
Explanation in in simple terms:
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2. âHave you got any money?â
âYes, Iâve been to the bank yesterdayâ

Correction:
Explanation in in simple terms:
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3. âWhy donât you give up smoking?â
âIâve tried, but I just canât give up it.â

Correction:
Explanation in in simple terms:
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4. âWhy didnât you answer the phone?â
âBecause I had a bath.â

Correction:
Explanation in in simple terms:
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Approaches to Teaching and Learning English:

1. Imagine that you are teaching a multilingual group of 12 adult learners at elementary level.

2. What problems might your students have in understanding these sentences:

Iâve got: a headache
: a sore throat
: a cough

3. What problems might they have in pronouncing them?

4. Outline some ideas on how you could teach these expressions.

5. Now think of your own experience as a learner of languages at school or elsewhere.
What conclusions would you draw from your experience as regards what makes a good language lesson?

6. Write at least 100 words in the space below:

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Claudius Taruvinga-Mtasa
E-Mail: claudius.taruvinga-mtasa@chello.at
Vienna. Austria/Europe.
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