Teacher training and Development
Welcome to our August 2019 e-bulletin issue. The CELT Athens team send you our very best wishes for a great start to the school year beginning soon in most countries in the world! Part time or full time – a CELTA for everyone The summer is continues in September in Athens and schools are getting…
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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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CCQ’s – in the TEFL jargon which we all use – are those questions which you need to ask right after you have taught something or are revising a lexical item a group of words a grammar point a functional exponent Generations of my CELTA, TEFL and DELTA trainees have agonised over their CCQ’s and this…
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<![CDATA[Most learners enjoy playing games; most teachers use games convinced of their value for language learning. This short, post aims to give you ideas for games which deal with subject matter which is usually considered ‘ heavy’ or ‘ very serious’ and not usually dealt with in such a light-hearted way! The games below are…
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<![CDATA[I am a big time fan of Spike Milligan, who has nothing whatsoever to do with foreign language teaching or foreign language teacher education but who has given me hours of great delight and, at times, inspiration for materials or activity design. In 1985, he brought out a book called “Further Transports of Delight” with…
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<![CDATA[My first post in the series is about three applications ReadtheWords in which an avatar speaks out a text you have pasted into a text box Voki which does the same but which also allows you to record your voice not xtranormal which allows only text to speech but which offers a range of animations.…
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