The Home Stretch for CELTA Trainees

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After 9 weeks of hard work, Lexis TESOL Training Centres’ spring CELTA course has hit the home stretch! The trainees have been meeting every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday since the 2nd of August at LTTC’s Sunshine Coast Campus and are now entering their final week. Last Saturday saw them peer teaching and coming to grips…

Free English Lessons

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Would you like to improve your English, for free? Lexis TESOL Training Centres is offering free English lessons every Tuesday and Thursday from 5.15pm-7.30pm at our Maroochydore campus. These classes will be taught by our trainee teachers and are completely free, you just need to apply! Please contact Dave on [email protected] or sign up at…

CELTA Week 7

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Our CELTA trainees had another interactive day at Lexis TESOL Training Centres’ Sunshine Coast campus. Now in week 7 of their course, the trainees tackled Phonology 2, Functions, and Modal verbs today in their sessions. As always, the sessions were interactive with lots of peer teaching, group work, and pair work. Great work guys!  

Teaching Pronunciation

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Our trainees worked hard at coming to grips with the phonemic alphabet in their pronunciation session this past weekend. They learned the symbols to represent the sounds of the English language, and how using the script in class can help English learners better understand English pronunciation. The trainees will go on to learn about various…

Teaching Past Tenses

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  Lexis TESOL Training Centres’ CELTA trainees got down to some peer teaching of past tenses this weekend at our Sunshine Coast campus. Trainees were given various past structures to analyse and then present to their colleagues. They even got to take advantage of the lovely sunny weather and prepare out on the balcony! The…

Teaching Listening

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Our Sunshine Coast TESOL candidates started off today with a session on teaching listening, where they looked at the crucial elements of a successful listening lesson. The trainee teachers experienced a demo listening lesson which consisted of: A lead in – to set the context and raise interest Pre teaching vocabulary – to identify possible…

CELTA Week 2

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Week two saw our CELTA trainees delve deeper into the world of TESOL at LTTC’s Sunshine Coast campus. Today’s sessions included Presenting Language, Teaching Reading, Analysing Lexis, and Checking Understanding. Presenting Language gave the trainees a look at the various ways in which grammar and vocabulary can be introduced to students in an engaging and…

Checking Understanding

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In their Checking Understanding session LTTC’s CELTA trainees got to try their hand at using timelines to illustrate different grammatical tenses. The trainees worked individually and in pairs to clearly illustrate the points they were making. Everyone had a turn and the results were great!