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…
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…
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…
While many CELTA graduates are planning a long career in international education, many of our students take the program to develop the skills necessary for a year or two teaching abroad. Destinations such as Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai are always the most popular choices for our graduates, combining as they do the excitement of the…
Lorna is a recent CELTA graduate and new employee of Lexis English Sunshine Coast. We asked her to tell us a little bit about her CELTA experience. So Lorna, why did you want to become an English language teacher? I wanted to travel, see the world and be immersed in different cultures. I love meeting…
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…
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…
Grammar Teaching 101 – Language Analysis Teaching grammar is one of the things that trainees and newly qualified teachers fear the most and generally, this stems from a lack of in depth knowledge about how English grammar works. In a previous post, we discussed grammar books to help you throughout your teaching career. In this…