Materials Upper-Intermediate Level CELTA April 2022
Coursebook: Life (National Geographic) Upper-Intermediate Will be sent to you by
WeTransfer.
Assisted Lesson Planning for these lessons will take place on WEDNESDAY @
21.00 BJ TIME. Each lesson is 45 minutes long.
You must submit your lesson plan, all materials, and a language analysis for each
of these lessons one hour before the first teacher.
ALL skills lessons need some language component – vocabulary, discourse,
grammar or phonology. This is analysed on your LA sheet.
REMEMBER – Cut out/cut down for time. Adapt for students’ context. Bring it ‘off the
page’.
WB =WORKBOOK (which is a different book!!)
Monday (TP5)
Lesson # Teacher Lesson Type Unit 6
1 (19.30-20.15) C Lin Wei (William) Reading P70 (2,3,4)
2 (20.15-21.00) B Zheng Yan (Jennifer) Grammar – using ‘not’ P 71 (8,9 or 10)
Next teacher will do the fr pr
3 (21.00-21.45) A Huang Guangli (Summer) V & Speaking P71 (5,6,11,12)
Cut 5 down
Tuesday (TP5)
Lesson # Teacher Lesson Type Unit 6
1 D Pang Jie (Vivian) Listening P72 (1,2,3,4)
5 = choose one ‘if time’
2 F Xu Miao (Shirley) Grammar - negative P 72,73 (6,8,11)
questions & tags
3 E Yan Shuyun (Sherry) Reading P74,75 (2,3,4)
Cut down 3/choose essential
vocab from 3 to pre-teach
Monday (TP6) No LA needed
Lesson # Teacher Lesson Type Unit 7
1 C Lin Wei (William) Listening WB P 54
2 A Huang Guangli (Summer) Grammar - I wish/would WB p 55
rather/if only 4= context (maybe use the
tapescript)
MFP
5= c. pr (cut down)
Next teacher will do fr pr
3 B Zheng Yan (Jennifer) Speaking p85 (9)
Now think of some examples
from your own life – make into
a conversation using words for
interest – see appendix *below
Move BORs around.
Tuesday (TP6)
Lesson # Teacher Lesson Type Unit
1 F Xu Miao (Shirley) Listening P96 (3,4,5)
[you could cut down the stories
to 2 or 3]
2 D Pang Jie (Vivian) G passive reporting verbs P96,97 (6,9)
Coverage of MFP
Next teacher will do the fr
practice
3 E Yan Shuyun (Sherry) Speaking P97 (11)
For TPs 7&8 you can choose a different book if you want or use the remaining units
in our course book. The videos for the book are on You Tube.
You will plan independently of the trainer, but together with your colleagues to make
a cohesive and varied 3 lessons for the students.
Make sure you have taught all the skills and systems over the Celta course (eg don’t
teach another listening lesson if you have never taught a reading lesson).
Make sure you have taught a grammar lesson at both levels!
FIRST HALF (with Tom):
A B C D E F
R L G R V W
G R L V L G
L G V G W R
R L W R G S
SECOND HALF (with Juliet)
S G R L R G
G S L G S L
NEEDS FOR TP7&8
R/L R/L G/S S/R G/L S/R
Appendix for * lesson
Sounding fluent and confident in a few words
Here are some useful ways to keep the conversation going. The “secret” is that you
don’t actually need many words to do this!
1. Show interest in the other speaker
You don’t need to say much. Often just one word is needed to show you are
interested and listening. Try “Really?” (with a rising intonation), “Right” or “Sure”. You
could even show you are listening with a non-word such as “Mmm” or Uh-huh”.
“I hate watching rubbish on the TV.”
“Right.”
2. Use a short phrase to show your feelings
For example, “How awful”, “Oh no!”, “You’re joking”, “What a pity” etc.
“My neighbour had a car accident yesterday.”
“Oh no!”
“Yes, but thankfully he wasn’t hurt.”
“Mmm.”
3. Ask a short question
You can use an auxiliary verb to make a short question which will encourage the
other speaker to keep talking:
“We tried out the new Chinese restaurant last night.”
“Did you?”
“I’m going to Barbados next week on holiday.”
“Are you? Lucky you!”
“It’s snowing again.”
“Is it?”
