Section 1 Learners & Teachers, & the Teaching & Learning Context A. Teaching and learning contexts Task 1 1. In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? The context of the CELTA course I believe will be: Monolingual Part-Time Open group Lessons in groups Mixed gender Same interest to teach English as a foreign language
2. Do you know what context you will be teaching in after you finish the course? If I get the job I have applied for I will endeavour to teach in the following context: Lessons in a group Monolingual Closed group Same gender Day classes Business English
B. The learners’ culture, linguistic and educational backgrounds Task 2 1. Think about why you Past progressive 2. Modal 3. Present 4. Past 5. Progressive
Task 16 1. Present continuous 2. Simple past 3. Present simple 4. Past 5. Present 6. Progressive 7. Past progressive 8. Present continuous
Task 17 1. Past 2. Future 3. Present 4. Present 5. Present/ past
Task 18 The auxiliary verb ‘be’ is used to create the present progressive. The form of the lexical verb of the present progressive is the –ing form.
Task 20 1. He’s had a brother and a sister. 2. I like this ice cream- liking is progressive 3. What do you think of your new job? 4. This sauce lacks salt. All the sentences should not have the -ing form because they are not progressive actions.
B. Vocabulary Task 21 Extra information dictionaries can provide about words apart from the meaning: 1. Its forms. i.e. cosy Forms given after part of speech cosier, cosiest 2. Variant spelling US cozy 3. Introduces derivatives i.e. cosily, cosiness 4. It tells us the parts of speech i.e. Adjective, noun and what category the word falls into. 5. Usage of the word 6. Grammatical information 7. Pronunciation of the word
Task 22 1. He’s the highest person in the family by more than 2 centimetres.
CAMBRIDGE CELTA COURSE 24 June – 19 July 2013 Dear Trainee, Welcome to British Side and the course! You are now trainees on the Cambridge CELTA Course and students at British Side. The former means that you are following a training course designed by the University of Cambridge ESOL. The syllabus and assessment criteria are laid down by this organisation, and the course will be inspected and moderated by an externally appointed assessor. You will not be assessed by this person (s/he will inspect…