CELTA -Mistakes to Avoid in Teaching Practice - Anticipating Problems

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[@thestraightpath.5036]

Many thanks for these really valuable episodes related to CELTA course. Could you possibly touch on in depth the lesson planning issue?

[@elttraining]

Sure! I have a whole course on this at www.elt-training.com/course/lesson-planning

[@mohammedsaleh4732]

Thank you so much pls more of this your videos helps me alot

[@BryanO92]

It strikes me that you anticipate problems because you've seen them before. One of the toughest things as a learner every week was filling that section out having no frame of reference. In one lesson, I was teaching the use of past vs past perfect in expressing regret (I wish/if only). Using a picture prompt, a student formulated the sentence "I wish it did not rain." Now according to the rules I had spent 40 minutes teaching him, this could be correct, but as native speakers we know it isn't, or at least what he said isn't what he meant. I was completely flat footed, and I'm still not sure how I could have seen that coming. Its so hard to step into the learner's shoes well enough to see where things can go sideways.

[@elttraining]

Hi Bryan- it definitely gets easier as you teach the same thing more than once but researching the language is the key here. In the example you give above the pattern for ‘I wish’ for regret I’d ‘wish + past perfect’ (I wish it hadn’t rained) and knowing this you can see how learners might think that it would be ‘didn’t rain’ because that’s the usual past tense. That’s why your learner made the mistake… you’ll know that one next time of course, but if you want to get more ahead of the game, you could try my Grammar for Language Teachers course! www.elt-training.com/course/grammar-for-language-teachers

[@thebestone2813]

What do we say instead of it?

[@monaelghannam4424]

Thanks a million.. I can't find the link to the courses you mentioned ⚘️

[@elttraining]

Ah! Senior moment! Look on my site www.elt-training.com and you’ll find them! I’ll put the links on the description a bit later!

[@elttraining]

They're all there now!

[@sarehdinakani2161]

Perfect 👍👍👍