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Djob20
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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Location: Mendoza
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 Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: A Q. for those who have done the Celta and now teach.. |
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If you did the Celta and are now teaching, what I want to ask is do you use the hundreds of sheets that you were given during the course for your teaching, or not?
Im trying to decide whether to pack these sheets or not, which are quite well in order, but I am worried shall just take up space..
Thanks for your thoughts |
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Drizzt
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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Location: Kyuushuu, Japan
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| Personally, I didn't bring them with me, nor did I trash them. They are safely tucked away back home in the US. I think they make good reference material but to be honest you can probably get equally good or even better information just by buying a good TEFL book...just my two cents. |
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kparsons
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| I've used some of them. Not too many, but some of them. They're certainly useful reference points, but if you're going to be traveling w/a backpack, they take up a lot of room. |
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coffeedrinker
Joined: 30 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| My feeling is that anything on grammar is ridiculously easy to find almost anywhere, so I wouldn't bring any Celta handouts on grammar with me. If you have anything that is especially unique (games or activities that don't come from a standard teachers room book) or otherwise special, bring it...but I don't think I've used much of anything that was a Celta handout. |
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sheeba
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I had to find a bin at Heathrow Terminal 3 before I boarded the plane . Perhaps you have a bin at home . |
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Djob20
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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Location: Mendoza
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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thanks a lot guys, i think i will pluck out the prime sheets from the file to bring with me.
And one more question if I may, as I am backpacking due to the lack of a light suitcase, would it seem absurd to take with me 'English grammar in use' by Murphy, and 'Grammar for English language teachers' by Parrot, as well as 'The practice of english language teaching' by Harmer?
Would that be excessive? I am totally new to teaching ( apart from the Celta) , and so I don't know what is worth bringing, and what can just as easily be gleamed from the net.. cheers |
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Drizzt
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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Location: Kyuushuu, Japan
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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BY ALL MEANS TAKE THE PARROTT BOOK!
I personally use this book (Grammar for English Language Teachers) and it's not only an excellent reference guide, but it's also the best organized, structured, and interesting grammar book for English teachers that I have found. |
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Djob20
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| WILL DO Drizzt, the Parrot book has got the a-ok. Thanks |
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Serious_Fun
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Use your own judgement on what to discard...obviously, one wouldn't need to take pages of scribbled notes from the first few days of your course.
I suggest saving those handouts for now- can you store them somewhere while you are overseas?
You may want them later:
If you decide to make TEFLing a career, then you will find that developing a teaching library takes time and some money... |
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| sheeba wrote: |
| I had to find a bin at Heathrow Terminal 3 before I boarded the plane . Perhaps you have a bin at home . |
LOL! That's the best answer yet. |
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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Take one of the grammar books- you'll probably want a grammar book, and they're expensive.
The rest of it depends a lot on you- are you the kind of person who can keep these things organised, know where they are, remember what's in them, and therefore actually use them? If so, it may be worth bringing. I am not such a person.
When I travel, I carry a USB memory with my essentials on it. Anything else, I would just fold, spindle, or mutilate.
Best,
Justin |
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jammish
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Depends where you are going, of course, but I am glad I took my material and grammar book with me. China is quite difficult to get hold of that sort of stuff in. |
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Aramas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| Justin Trullinger wrote: |
When I travel, I carry a USB memory with my essentials on it. Anything else, I would just fold, spindle, or mutilate. |
Care to tell us what your 'essentials' are? |
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prof
Joined: 25 Jun 2004
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Location: Boston/China
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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CELTA is not really recognized as anything special in Asia.
Get your BA. And your Hons. And an MA. And a PhD. Then you will get recognized.
If you are good looking and the students like you.... |
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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Care to tell us what your 'essentials' are? |
Here goes:
On the flash memory:
A thousand or so downloadable classroom activities, from onestopenglish.com, insideout, occasionally from Dave's.
Printable documents for the participant's binder on the SIT cert in TESOL course. (On which I've recently started working as a trainer.)
MP3 format jazz chants, listenings, and songs that I use, or hope to use in class. (also some I may not use, but just like. George Carlin's "The usage of *BEEP*" is on there, but I don't think I'll use it in class much.)
Various scanned documents and articles taken from textbooks and teacher training texts that I like.
A couple of monty python videos. (the "dirty hungarian phrasebook" is BRILLIANT for class use. The "dead parrot" isn't bad.)
Schedules and class plans for my most recent projects.
Curriculums and sylabi of recent ESP projects I've been designing/working on.
Spreadsheets with teacher schedules for where I currently work.
Budget plans, both personal and professional.
Lists of phone numbers and emails of contacts, again personal and professional.
A fairly complete collection of essays and publications by Noam Chomsky. (These are really a personal interest. I'm not sure about classroom applications yet...)
Anything else I happen to be reading electronically. (The gutenberg project rocks!)
Photos.
In hard copy:
A few teaching related documents I haven't managed to scan yet. (Though I'll probably lose them, I still try.)
"How English Works." (I can never remember the author. It's the one with the yellow cover.)
"Practical English Usage" by Swan.
Maybe one of the Azar books.
Whatever I'm reading in hard copy at the moment. (If I were leaving tomorrow, it would be a biography of Ch� Guevara...but I'm not leaving tomorrow.)
Plenty of socks.
I'll just add that for me, the memory stick is about the best invention of the last several years. I would really be (and was) a lot less prepared and efficient without it.
Best,
Justin |
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