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Many candidates are not sure of what to expect on a CELTA course – university life and lecture halls do not really prepare you for the level of engagement and intensity of such a practical, hands-on course. We asked one of our most recent CELTA graduates to paint us a picture of what the course…
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Cohesion and coherence. They are often used interchangeably in everyday staffroom chat So what is the difference? In short: Cohesion is the network of surface-level linguistic links that connect sentences and clauses (e.g., pronouns, conjunctions, lexical chains). Coherence is the underlying logical flow that makes the relationships of ideas evident and meaningful to a reader or listener.…
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Are you interested in following the Cambridge CELTA but are not sure whether it will help you in your future jobs that involve teaching young classes? Watch this short first FAQ’s vlog post and we hope it will answer your questions of whether you will need an extension course after your CELTA. Learn more…
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How Module 2 can benefit Academic Managers by Geoffrey Adamson Words like ‘management’ and ‘human resources’ do not come up often in conversations in or about DELTA Module 2. Terms like these, it seems, are relegated to Module 3 and its ELT Management option. Clearly, the ELTM option provides academic managers with the opportunity of…
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Many of my Delta Diploma graduates and even CELTA graduates, often ask me if we would train them up so they can become CELTA tutors. This is a post to help them understand the process and why it is so difficult to get accepted on such an induction course. Why are some teachers so keen…
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One of the frequent questions asked by potential candidates directly to us or via social platforms and groups is how to do well on their pre-interview task and what it’s about. Cambridge loves a name all of its own for things done and this one is no exception! The ‘pre-interview task’ is primarily a test…
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Teaching Online – my Thoughts and Reactions I was not quite half way through a CELTA course when the lockdown started in Greece and, as a result of forced school closures, we were told that TPs* would be suspended indefinitely. At this point I had taught three classes face to face in Athens and had…
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The post below has not been edited in any way and is a letter sent to me by one of our recent CELTA trainees – her group started online but with the teaching practice component done in situ, at CELT in Athens. Until, suddenly, one day in March, we were told we had to close…
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The future of teaching may well be online, despite the fact that face-to-face teaching has so many benefits. Advantages of online teaching Online teaching poses many challenges to the teacher who is comfortable and used to teaching ‘live’ only, but these are challenges which can be easily overcome, as there are multiple advantages to being…
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Image from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_KingdomIn all my years as a teacher, I have been reading about the elusive present perfect continuous in the passive as a classic example of that which is formally possible, the grammatical system of the English Language allows it, but is never actually done, i.e. ‘used’, by the language community. According to…
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