CELTA Preparation: Prepare with an Official CELTA Tutor

Explore CELTA input sessions led by tutors, covering language skills (reading, listening, speaking), grammar, vocab, phonology, planning, lesson staging, language analysis, and teaching techniques, with center-specific topics.

Explore CELTA teaching practice, where candidates teach real English learners in small groups, receive oral and written feedback, and compile a portfolio through self-evaluation and tutor observations.

Learn about three types of observations (peer observations, classroom observations with experienced teachers, and recorded lessons) along with observation tasks, center templates, and guidance on error correction and writing insights.

Explore the CELTA portfolio and record booklet structure, CELTA five, and the tutorials, covering required records, tutor feedback, submissions, observations, and assessment criteria.

Organize the board with clear sections and colors, and plan seating for activities. Maximize student talk, minimize teacher talk, and use group work to support learning.

Explore classroom management techniques, including pairing and group work, monitoring strategies, and effective handouts and slides, while noting topics to avoid and tips for pacing and feedback.

Master giving and checking instructions by analyzing good and bad examples, using cues to confirm understanding, and applying short, simple, logically ordered instructions with pauses, body language, and board use.

Master error correction in celta preparation by learning who should correct, when to correct, and techniques such as prompting, reformulation, and delayed feedback for speaking and writing.

Learn how eliciting activates students' prior knowledge, discusses its advantages and disadvantages, and applies practical tips with a live classroom example.

Drilling introduces listening-and-repeating practice, using techniques like substitution drills, transformation drills, and back chaining, with immediate feedback and pacing to improve pronunciation accuracy.

This lesson introduces ECDWS, a technique for presenting new lexical items or grammar, outlining eliciting, checking understanding, drilling, showing written form, and marking stress with a shop assistant example.

Visualize tense concepts with timelines by drawing horizontal time lines and vertical now markers, using crosses for completed actions, wavy lines for ongoing actions, and straight lines for durations.

Discover how to design concept check questions for grammar and vocabulary, breaking items into meaning statements and turning them into short questions with clear expected answers.

Explore language analysis forms for CELTA, explain when to use grammar or lexis analysis, and illustrate how to analyze the target language, anticipate problems, and offer solutions.

Analyze grammatical structures and write a grammar analysis using form, meaning, and pronunciation, with problems and solutions for the second conditionals used to discuss hypothetical situations.

Analyze lexical items with practical do's and don'ts, exploring form, pronunciation, meaning, and reference tools to guide lexis analysis for CELTA preparation.

Analyze the cover page of a lesson plan by detailing the description, aims, personal aims, materials, class profile, assumptions, timetable, and anticipated problems and solutions for CELTA preparation.

Explore how to design a lesson procedure form by detailing five sections—stage name and aim, materials, interaction patterns, and time—plus tips and examples to ensure clear, sequential instruction.

This lecture provides templates for writing CELTA lesson plans, covering grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and writing, including PPP and DTT approaches, with tips on descriptions, themes, timing, and interaction patterns.

Explore types of language practice activities, controlled practice, semi control practice, and freer practice, emphasizing accuracy with feedback and correction, and moving from controlled to freer to balance fluency.

The lead-in sets context and engages students in about five minutes, and it differs from a warmer or filler by offering ideas like quick discussions, a video task, and predictions.

Explore the ppp framework—presentation, practice, and production—focused on presenting the target language, controlled practice for accuracy, and freer production for personalized, fluent use, with monitoring and feedback.

Explore the TTI lesson framework with four stages—test, teach, test, and fluency—and learn when to apply the DTT approach to familiar language and gaps.

Introduce the task-based learning framework, its six stages from pre-task to practice, with modeling, pair work, reporting, analysis, and targeted language input.

Explore guided discovery in the classroom, including four stages—exposure, analysis, rule, and practice. Compare deductive and inductive learning, and see how teacher facilitation fosters collaboration and learner autonomy.

Learn to write a celta self-evaluation form after each lesson, detailing strengths, weaknesses, and evidence, and plan future actions to improve teaching.

Explore a free tool, English lesson plan dot com, to plan lessons, download plans as PDF, and access them on any device while defining aims, framework, and lesson stages.

Explore how to teach the second conditional with engaging lead-ins and a clear context. Clarify meaning, form, and pronunciation, then guide students through controlled, semi-controlled, and free practice.

Explore how to teach vocabulary in context by presenting meaning, form, pronunciation, spelling, connotation, grammar, collocations, and register, with controlled and free practice and elicitation techniques.

Explore teaching reading as a key receptive skill, covering prereading, while-reading, and post-reading stages, with skimming, scanning, and details tasks, plus practical tips and a sample course-book lesson.

Explore interactive and non-interactive listening, and listening for gist, details, and specific information. Apply the three-stage framework—pre, while, post listening—with tips and a sample lesson.

Develops speaking skills by addressing difficulties, teaching pre teaching and circumlocution, and using speaking prompts, thinking time, and preparation within a five-stage speaking lesson framework with monitoring and delayed feedback.

Explore teaching writing with model and process approaches, covering spelling, punctuation, layout, style, cohesion, and coherence, plus a sample lesson framework and job-application email activity.

Explore the four CELTA written assignments, learn how to use in-text citations and compile a bibliography, with center-based variations and resubmission rules.

Complete this CELTA preparation course with confidence and plan your CELTA journey. Rely on your tutor to answer questions and help you become a teacher by the end of CELTA.