Product description

This is an essential resource for CELTA candidates and trainers. The Trainee Book supports candidates with an accessible ready-to-use course, while the Trainer's Manual provides trainers with all the material they need to deliver CELTA, whether in the classroom, online or as a blended course. The second edition reflects changes to the qualification and includes new material on topics including teaching in virtual classrooms, teaching young learners and the use of L1. It includes 40 practical units organised into the five main CELTA topic areas: Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context; Language analysis and awareness; Language skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing; Planning and resources for different teaching contexts; and Developing teaching skills and professionalism. The book also features a range of supplementary materials to support trainees to get the most from their course.

Contents

Introduction 4

1 - Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context

1 Learning and teaching contexts 6

2 Learners as individuals 9

3 What do teachers do? 13

2 - Language analysis and awareness

4 Introduction to analysing language 16

5 Introduction to researching language 22

6 Vocabulary 27

7 Teaching vocabulary 33

8 The sounds of English 37

9 Stress, rhythm and intonation 43

10 Teaching pronunciation 48

11 Phrases and sentences 53

12 Tense and aspect 58

13 Language functions 64

14 Text and discourse 69

15 Presenting the meaning and form of new grammar items 73

16 Checking the meaning of grammar items 79

17 Practising new language items 84

18 Providing feedback on learner production 90

19 Teaching language items reactively 95

3 - Language skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing

20 Focus on listening skills 99

21 Focus on reading skills 104

22 Focus on speaking skills 109

23 Focus on writing skills 113

24 Teaching basic literacy 118

25 Integrating skills 122

4 - Planning and resources for different teaching contexts

26 Lesson planning: defining aims 125

27 Lesson planning: lesson design and staging 131

28 Lesson planning: planning beyond the single lesson 135

29 The online classroom v the face-to-face classroom 138

30 Choosing and using teaching resources 141

31 Teaching with limited resources 145

32 Using educational technology 148

5- Developing teaching skills and professionalism

33 Organizing and managing a class 151

34 Managing an activity 155

35 Teaching young learners and teenagers 157

36 Teaching at different levels 159

37 Maintaining learner motivation 166

38 Introduction to assessment 169

39 Developing as a teacher 173

40 Preparing for the workplace 177

Pair and group work 180

Teaching practice 184

Classroom observation 193

Guide to tutorials 201

Guide to written assignments 203

5-minute activities 207

A brief guide to the English verb 212

Glossary 215

Further reading 226

Coursebook material 227

Acknowledgements 229