Language Skills Related Tasks - help with CELTA Assignment 3
Language Skills Related Tasks is often set around the mid-point of a CELTA course. Like all CELTA written assignments, it is 750 to 1000...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Feb 13 min read
Language-related tasks - help with CELTA Assignment Two
Language-related tasks is often assigned early in a CELTA course and, like all other assignments on the course, it needs to be completed...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Nov 28, 20233 min read
Planning a series of lessons
By the end of a CELTA course, you should be very good at planning an individual lesson, but you might feel intimidated at the idea of...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 31, 20233 min read
How to teach advanced students
New teachers can be intimidated by advanced students - "What if they know more about grammar than I do?" "What if they correct my...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 24, 20233 min read
Teacher Talking Time: How can we reduce it?
For many new trainee teachers on their first CELTA course, one of the first and most frequent action points that they get told to work on...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 17, 20233 min read
What is controlled practice?
Part of learning anything is to practise it. When I was a teenager and I learned to drive in Ireland in the 1990s, my father took me to...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 10, 20233 min read
Focus on the Learner - help with CELTA Assignment One
On a CELTA course, you'll have to complete four written assignments. Each assignment is between 750-1000 words. The assignments can be...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 19, 20232 min read
Correcting students' spoken errors in your CELTA lessons
Students all make mistakes, and it's important we respond to these. When students are speaking in class, and a teacher hears a mistake,...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 12, 20233 min read
Checking students' understanding of meaning
One of the most important skills to learn as a new teacher is the skill of checking students' understanding. We might think we're...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Test-teach-test: A framework for CELTA grammar and vocabulary lessons
Most grammar or vocabulary lessons on an English teaching course, be it an online CELTA course or a classroom CELTA, will start with some...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Giving feedback to students in CELTA teaching practice
On a CELTA course, you'll be encouraged to get students to do most tasks by themselves, maybe working alone or in pairs or groups, and...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Aug 15, 20233 min read
Five games for vocabulary practice on CELTA
New teachers sometimes think that 'controlled practice' means 'boring practice'. It's true that controlled practice activities include...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Aug 8, 20233 min read
Product writing: a simple approach to teaching writing
Some CELTA tutors will avoid giving trainees writing lessons to teach, even though it is part of the syllabus. It is true that it's...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Aug 1, 20232 min read
Anticipating problems when planning your CELTA lesson
Some parts of writing a lesson plan are easier than others, and many CELTA trainees complain that they just don't know where to start...
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Danny Wilkins
Jul 28, 20235 min read
A helpful guide to TEFL and CELTA acronyms.
The EFL world is littered with acronyms (there’s one in this sentence already). These can sometimes get confusing. This blog hopes to...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Jul 25, 20233 min read
How to drill pronunciation like a pro
Drilling simply means repeating things aloud. It's one of the simplest language teaching tools we have and it's one of the ones we've...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Jul 18, 20232 min read
What is guided discovery?
As you progress through a CELTA course, you will start to get comfortable with all the things you need to do when you're teaching new...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Choosing the right methodology book for your CELTA course
One of the questions prospective CELTA trainees ask most often is which books they should buy. We've already written about which grammar...
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Danny Wilkins
Jul 7, 20236 min read
CELTA jobs - peak hiring times for CELTA qualified English Teachers
There is no right or wrong time to qualify with a CELTA certificate. The qualification is life-long – it doesn’t expire and you won’t...
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Connor O'Donoghue
Jul 4, 20233 min read
The 3 tools you need to master classroom management
Every lesson is essentially a sequence of activities. Activities come in all shapes and sizes, but ideally, they are student-centred, and...
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