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Do your Cambridge CELTA Now!

Why this might be the best time ever to do your Cambridge CELTA Remember that time the whole world shut down for two years for that global pandemic?No, me either. It already seems like a dream. The hangover from years of border closures is still keenly felt in the international education sector, though. From Byron…

CELTA update from our trainee Tim

We caught up with one of our CELTA trainees today who has shared his experience studying with LTTC. Here’s what he has to say: “The CELTA course is a real challenge but you can’t deny that it trains teachers how to teach. I personally have years of previous teaching experience in ESL but I still…

Live Lesson Observations

One of the best things about the CELTA course is that trainees get the opportunity to observe more experienced teachers in action. This morning LTTC’s trainees split up amongst the classes at Lexis English Sunshine Coast to observe the teachers and classes. The trainees saw lessons from Elementary to Upper Intermediate level and a couple…

CELTA Day Three!

Day 3 of CELTA was a busy day for LTTC’s latest cohort. Their first session of the morning was ‘presenting language’ where the trainees were involved in a number of language presentation styles including: Situational Presentation Guided Discovery Text-based Presentation Test-Teach-Test The candidates all worked hard and got involved in the tasks, making the session…

Teaching Pronunciation

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

  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…