Live Lesson Observations

Announcements

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…

Teaching Pronunciation

Announcements

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…

Applying for your CELTA course

Teaching Hints

You’ve looked at prices, narrowed down the providers and finally chosen the school you want to do your CELTA at. So what happens now? The Application Form This is not just a run of the mill application form. For most centres, this serves firstly as a means to gather the information they need about you…

Getting Students to Speak

Announcements

Sometimes as teachers, we think we have these wonderful lessons planned and at the end of the class we walk out thinking ‘What just happened?’. The class hasn’t responded in the manner we thought they would and all those great speaking activities we had planned have produced very little speaking. This is a topic I…