Hello!
I started the Trintiy College CertTESOL course on 29 September. It is a one year course running one evening a week for input session and teaching practice for me will be on a Wednesday afternoon.
I have been wanting to do this course for some time and a local College advertised the course in August so perfect timing!!!
I do not have a degree and my grammar is not great so i hope i wil be able to cope…so far so good though…i managed to get through the pre-interview task!
I have been to 2 evening input sessions and on the first evening we got to know each other and had a tour of the college facilities. There are 14 students on the course, various ages and careers, everyone seems really nice and friendly which is very important as i will be working closely with one other person when we do our teaching together.
On the second evening we went through some ‘homework’ we were given. We have to learn a new alphabet!!! Phoneme Alphabet….basically symbols which are used to represent the prinicpal sounds of English. We were also given sentences and had to explain the difference between them e.g.
1a What do you do at the weekend?
1b What are you doing at the weekend?
We were also given other sentences and had to find the adverbs or adjectives etc.
1 She’s a GOOD player
Is GOOD an adverb or adjective
I must say i did find this quite difficult as i had to use a book to check if i was correct in my answers….some people seemed to know them easily whereas for me i think i need to think more!!
Next week we will be starting to learn a new language and we need to keep a diary of how we feel whilst learning and how we think the teachers teaching techniques work.
Well this is all for now…..i will try and write a little each week.
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