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Celta Course: Pre Interview Task

This document contains a pre-interview task for a CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) course. It has four parts: 1. Identifying and correcting errors in a sample of student writing, and explaining two errors. 2. Underlining mistakes and providing corrections for three sample conversations. 3. Considering pronunciation challenges for two sentences for a multilingual group of beginners, and ideas for teaching the expressions. 4. Writing 200 words about common problems language learners face, such as with tenses, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, word order and meaning, drawing from personal experience learning English or helping others.

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Celta Course: Pre Interview Task

This document contains a pre-interview task for a CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) course. It has four parts: 1. Identifying and correcting errors in a sample of student writing, and explaining two errors. 2. Underlining mistakes and providing corrections for three sample conversations. 3. Considering pronunciation challenges for two sentences for a multilingual group of beginners, and ideas for teaching the expressions. 4. Writing 200 words about common problems language learners face, such as with tenses, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, word order and meaning, drawing from personal experience learning English or helping others.

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CELTA COURSE: PRE INTERVIEW TASK

Please complete this task in your own handwriting. There are three parts. The completed document should be
sent to us with your application. Make a copy of your work if you wish to have one. We will keep the original for
your file.
Student Writing
1. Read the following piece of writing carefully.

Identify the errors by underlining them


Correct them
Choose two errors
o say why you think they occurred
o suggest one possible way of helping them

CELTA BC Colombo, 2008

2. Student Mistakes
Each of the exchanges below contains a mistake.
In each case :
(a) underline the mistake
(b) write the corrected version in the space provided
(c) write, in simple terms, as if speaking to a learner of English, how you would explain the correction

(a) Id like some informations about the courses.


Certainly, heres our brochure.

(b) Have you got any money?


Yes, Ive been to the bank yesterday.

(c)What did you do last night?.


I watched a very bored programme on television.

CELTA BC Colombo, 2008

3. Approaches to Teaching and Learning


Imagine you are teaching a multilingual group of 12 beginners here in Sri Lanka.
(a) What problems might your students have in understanding and pronouncing these sentences?
Ive got a headache
Ive got a pain in my leg

(b) Outline some ideas on how you would teach these expressions

CELTA BC Colombo, 2008

4. Learning English
Think about your own experience as a language learner at school or elsewhere and /or your experience of
helping people to learn English. What problems do you think learners are likely to have with the English
language? Write about 200 words. Your answer could comment on some of the following: tenses, vocabulary,
pronunciation, spelling, word order and meaning.
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CELTA BC Colombo, 2008

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