CELTA TEACHER PRACTICE POINTS

Total English – Upper Intermediate

CELTA Week 13 / Friday 10th May 2013

1.Mary TP 6

Aim: to clarify and practise lexis – law & insurance

SB p118 / TB p85
 There are different ways you could go about clarifying this vocab. You could
either go straight in with the matching exercise 1 (you could lift it off the
page) or you could do it the way suggested in the ‘Optional warmer’ in the TB.
You decide! You need to consider this stage as diagnostic to assess which
words the ss are familiar with, check those back with them and then of course
clarify the words they don’t know.
 You could use the pictures to check some other vocab such as judge / lawyer /
witness/ arson / arsonist.
 Don’t forget to consider not only the meaning as in ex 1 but also form (part of
speech) as well as any pron work if necessary.
 Display efficiently on the WB – grouping as necessary
 Ex 2 practises form / meaning.
 Finish with a brief discussion ex 3.

2. Lianna TP 6

Aim: to practise listening skills

SB p119 / TB p85
 Think about the different stages in a listening lesson – lead-in, prediction,
listen for gist, listen for detail, any grammar or vocab work.
 Set the context and then encourage the ss to predict what they think might
happen in the story using the vocab in ex 1 p118 that Mary has used.
 Elicit ss ideas and put on the WB.
 Ss first task is gist, to listen for the main idea(s) - link to their predictions
 Ex 5 = listening for more detail. Make sure that you get ss to explain why they
have chosen a certain order and elicit any further detail they may have picked
up. Have extra challenging questions ready to probe further.
 Ex 6 = focus on language – expressions to show you are listening. Let ss find
the expressions and decide what they mean – guessing from context. Check.
 CELTA TEACHER PRACTICE POINTS
Total English – Upper Intermediate
3. Omar TP 5

Aim: to clarify and practise lexis – crimes / criminals

TB p152 and p174
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?
ContentType=text/html;quiz=1526_crime_criminals
 Elicit from the ss the crimes that came up earlier – arson, fraud – check for
meaning again.
 Use the quiz as a diagnostic (on paper) to assess ss knowledge of other crimes
and criminals. Don’t correct anything at this stage.
 Clarify the meanings, form, pron of both the crimes and the criminals and
associated verbs such as rob, steal, break the law etc – put on the WB in some
sort of table.
 You could then do the same quiz again but this time interactively on the
internet on the screen, as a way of reviewing the words and checking answers.
 The only crime that is missing for the next activity is ‘forgery and bank
robbery/robber. So you could maybe try to elicit any other crimes / criminals
to add to the list on the WB. Don’t let this go on too long, but ensure that
forgery, bank robbery comes up.
 The activity from the back of the TB needs to be split into two parts (fold
paper) part 1 ss gap fill from the lexis and also words from Lianna’s listening.
 Part 2 is the logic puzzle they need to solve. I suggest they put letters A – F
next to the criminals / convicts to make it easier during discussion. Check ss
know the word ‘beard’.
 You should also tell ss that when it says ‘sitting to the right of someone’ – it
means as you look at the picture.