The third assignment we did during CELTA was also fun. We had the choice of doing the assignment on either Reading Skills or Listening Skills. Since we also needed to reproduce the materials for the assignment, everyone obviously chose to do it on Reading Skills. Much easier to just copy, paste text from somewhere than get listening material. I wonder why they even give us a choice.. haha!
We also had the choice of picking reading material straight from the book or choosing an authentic text (text that has actually been published – online or on paper – and not been graded to the reading level of the ESL students). I definitely wanted to an authentic text.. I was bored to death with the awfully boring stuff in the ESL textbooks, and I thought students must find authentic texts more interesting, even though it can be more challenging and may contain words they haven’t come across.
I scratched my brains for a little while, surfed the esl sites looking for some ideas, then hit upon a brilliant one. Yelp.. savior of the indecisive, of the lost and forsaken. I quickly searched for reviews of the restaurant downstairs (in the same building as St. Giles International, SF) and found a few perfectly suited for my elementary group of students.
The rest was easy.. just devised a few gist questions and detailed tasks and wrote how I would plan and execute the lesson. This was really an easy assignment. I did get a resubmit on it, but it was a minor point of conisderation – My gist tasks seemed to be too detailed to our CELTA tutor, so I just rewrote those.
Here goes.. .the lesson plan and the accompanying tasks. Has some cool pictures too. Enjoy!
Click to DOWNLOAD the CELTA assignment on Language Skills Task –>
If you’re a current CELTA student looking for help with your assignments, you might want to peek and see what I wrote in my CELTA assignments. They’re all available for free downloads. Drop me a line if these were useful. Cheers!
Hi,
This is a very cool website, I have had a look at your assignment and it has been very helpful. I am currently doing my Celt atm… I did choose to do a listening though:)
I think your blogging style is very fun and up beat. When did you finish your Celt and how did you find it trying to get a job in the field?
well all the best
UmaYara
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Hey, I did my CELTA mid-2009. Been more than a year. Phew!
At the end of CELTA, our trainers gave us a list of schools from around the world, with email addresses etc. I just got in touch with ILA Vietnam and a few schools in Africa. Vietnam worked out and ILA is a fantastic school to be at as a CELTA fob. SO here I am!
Where are you working now?
Hi!
Thanks for sharing, you should state whether the assignments you’ve posted were graded ‘to standard’ and passed or not
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Hey Frank, Except the first assignment, all my assignments scored ‘Above Standard’s.
HI
I very interested to read your lesson plans. How do I download them?
Click to DOWNLOAD the CELTA assignment on Language Skills Task –> [download id=\11\]
Cannot get anywhere past this point.
I am currently doing the CELTA but having problems structuring my plans to meet the aims. So I hope I can get few tips from yours
Thanks for posting this; it was very helpful to read it while preparing for my own Language Skills Task assignment.
I notice you studied at St. Giles in San Francisco, which is where I’m studying now. I wonder if you had the same teachers—Gabi and Maureen.
Thanks again!
Yes! Gabi and Maureen were my trainers too
This is great! Thanks so much for posting this, (just to add my appreciation to the others!) you really gave me the direction I want to go in for my assignment 3. I’d been thinking about it for days with no firm focus but now I’ve no worries! I can’t wait to get down to my own plan now. thanks again!
Malachy, Dublin