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CELTA has no sense of humour.
By/Re:Habloyf <maybe_i_can_fly@hotmail.com>
5 March 2011

Hello everyone!

Today I was doing a teaching practise for CELTA.

I was brainstorming some ideas for an oral activity which the students were going to participate in.
It was an activty about going on holiday, for elementary leaners.
The four parts about it were

Where are you going to go?
How will you get there?
Where will you stay?
What will you do?

When we were brainstorming on places we could stay, students gave me answers like this
"Hotel" "Motel" "campsite" etc... And I also suggested "under a bridge" and wrote it on the boad. (Yes, I have done this before)

On my feedback from my tutor, they went out of their way to tell me that it was inappropriate to "stay under a bridge"

By the way, I am in New Zealand.

I talked to 2 language teachers with over 30 years of experience teaching languages at high schools in New Zealand because I just happened to walk into them, (one was my French teacher at school) and told them about the tutor feedback.

They said "does your tutor have no sense of humour?" "Where are they from?"

I said from Britain. Which then they were like "ahh!"

What do you guys think?






Messages In This Thread

CELTA has no sense of humour. -- Habloyf 5 March 2011
Re CELTA has no sense of humour. -- cunning linguist 6 March 2011
Re CELTA has no sense of humour (Resources) -- TEFL World Wiki 5 March 2011

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