Cambridge CELTA Online Application - Lexis TESOL Training

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Pre-Interview Task

Please complete this task carefully as it is one of the factors we take into consideration when making a decision about your application. We strongly recommend you use a grammar book when completing the task. Please remember that your explanations should reflect what you might say in a classroom to students, so should not be over-complicated.

Part One

For each of the following sentences: A. Correct the student error by writing the corrected sentence first, B. Explain, as simply as possible, why we use the corrected version. Example: I meet my friends last night. A. I met my friends last night B. Used here to express a completed action in the past

1) The car washed yesterday.

A.(Required)

B.(Required)

2) I am believing in the tooth fairy.

A.(Required)

B.(Required)

3) She has ate 3 chocolates.

A.(Required)

B.(Required)

Part 2

How would you convey the difference in meaning of the following pairs of sentences to a learner of English?

1a) He’s gone to the shops.(Required)

1b) He’s been to the shops.(Required)

2a) My sister, who lives next door, is a doctor.(Required)

2b) My sister who lives next door is a doctor.(Required)

Part 3

Comment on the meaning of the CAPITALIZED word in both sentences.

1a) When I was a child I COULD do the splits.(Required)

1b) COULD you please open the window?(Required)

2a) He HAS a Corvette.(Required)

2b) He HAS to take medicine daily.(Required)

Part 4

Add two more similar items to each list:

1) Bigger, stronger, faster,...(Required)

2) Sit down, stand up, run off, ...(Required)

3) Drank, won, looked,...(Required)

4) Carefully, usually, hard,...(Required)

Part 5

How would you clarify the difference in meaning between the following pairs of words to a student?

1) Smile : smirk(Required)

2) Reason : result(Required)

3) Lift : carry(Required)

Part 6

Read the following sentence, putting the stress on the word in CAPITALS in a), b), and c) what is the speaker trying to express in each sentence?

a) I wish I'D driven to school.(Required)

b) I wish I’d driven to SCHOOL.(Required)

c) I wish I’d DRIVEN to school.(Required)

Part 7

Pronunciation Mark the stress in the words below. EXAMPLE: HOSpital / underSTAND

a) Inform(Required)

b) Photographic(Required)

c) Information(Required)

d) Possible(Required)

e) Prejudice(Required)

f) Possibility(Required)

g) Allow(Required)

h) Record (noun)(Required)

i) Photography(Required)

j) Record (verb)(Required)

Part 8

Sometimes we can label a speaker’s intention (i.e. ‘inviting’, ‘offering’). We call these labels FUNCTIONS. Look at the short dialogue below and label the function of each utterance.

A: ‘Would you like something to drink?’(Required)

B: ‘Yes, please,’ ‘Could I have a coffee?’(Required)

A: ‘Do you mind if I open the window?'(Required)

B: ‘Not at all.'(Required)

Having read the information on the Lexis TESOL Training Centres / Cambridge ESOL website, what do you feel will be your strengths / weaknesses on the CELTA course? Please write 100-120 words.(Required)

From the perspective of your best friend, write a short character description of yourself. Please write this in the third person and in 100-120 words.(Required)

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