CELTA day 5 -- lunch break
Oct. 20th, 2006 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassLast night was thankfully far less stressful than Wednesday night. All told, I probably did 3 hours of work after we wrapped up at 5 pm: a half-hour with the other people in my teaching group compiling a class profile (for our first assignment), and another two and a half hours doing lesson planning and various bits of administrativa. But it was all stuff I knew how to do, so there was no pressure.
I finished around 9:30, went to Maz for an hour, said hi to Marc, Ian, Jess, and (very briefly) Jimmy, and then went home.
And then it happened: Idreamed dreamt dreamed about tesl. (Sigh. Now I'm making language mistakes. And, for those who didn't ask, "dreamed" and "dreamt" are both apparently correct. But I needed to look it up to make sure.) Dear gods, make it stop!
In any event...
This morning, our courses covered: 1. a recap of teaching grammar and some prep for our second assignment (essentially grammar analysis), and 2. error correction (identifying types of errors and why they are made). I discovered a way nifty book called Learner English, which discusses common types of errors, divided by nationality. So, for example, for a given language it will say what phenomes (sounds) are shared between the language and English and which are different, what grammar constructions or pronunciations tend to get carried over into English, etc. Tres cool, non?
I had Belle Province for lunch today. SO bad for me, but SO tasty!
This afternoon, I'm teaching the second half of a listening lesson. However, our teaching is completely unsupervised. Our trainer won't even be in the room. Which means, I think, that we get to leave early because we're not having a feedback session (usually runs 4:15 - 5 pm). Yay! Early Friday! Catch you on the flip side!
I finished around 9:30, went to Maz for an hour, said hi to Marc, Ian, Jess, and (very briefly) Jimmy, and then went home.
And then it happened: I
In any event...
This morning, our courses covered: 1. a recap of teaching grammar and some prep for our second assignment (essentially grammar analysis), and 2. error correction (identifying types of errors and why they are made). I discovered a way nifty book called Learner English, which discusses common types of errors, divided by nationality. So, for example, for a given language it will say what phenomes (sounds) are shared between the language and English and which are different, what grammar constructions or pronunciations tend to get carried over into English, etc. Tres cool, non?
I had Belle Province for lunch today. SO bad for me, but SO tasty!
This afternoon, I'm teaching the second half of a listening lesson. However, our teaching is completely unsupervised. Our trainer won't even be in the room. Which means, I think, that we get to leave early because we're not having a feedback session (usually runs 4:15 - 5 pm). Yay! Early Friday! Catch you on the flip side!
