November 26, 2009

  • CELTA

    I honestly can't believe another week at school has gone by!

    I've done my lesson on Tea with all the 3rd years now and it went down very well! I showed them the article from the newspaper about the Twining Tea Tour Bus coming to Italy, and one class asked their teacher if we can go on a trip as it's coming to Bergamo on the 17th December! The teacher agreed and is looking into it, and invited me to go with them if we go! I really hope I can because it's a Thursday which is my busiest day at school (so I might not get permission to miss it...). It would be fun though!!

    My CELTA interview is fixed for this Saturday at 10am! That means I get to spend another day in Verona! Yay! The downside is that I've only got today and tomorrow to prepare. I'm not entirely sure what I need to prepare. There are a lot of articles about the interview (and forum entries) with people panicking and suggesting revising all the English grammar etc. I think basically my grammar knowledge is okay and I'm more worried about all the "why do you want to do this course" type questions (even if I did have to write 2 pages on that for my application). Oh well, what will be will be! Lots of the responses did say that it's more to get an idea of your expectations and to explain the course a bit more, as especially with the intensive ones (which I'm not doing, mine is part time) it is a HUGE workload and they need to check you'll be able to cope. So I'm hoping there isn't really any need to be nervous and it will be more like a chat. Things tend to go wrong when I stop worrying about them though, so maybe I should keep worrying and do some sort of preparation!

Comments (3)

  • I need to be one of your students because I had to go to Google to learn what was a Twinning Tea Tour and also a CETA . I found .
    Don' t worry I am sure your interview next Saturday will be good . You will be certified as a English teacher in Italy .
    I am glad you enjoy my posts and I have to say I like reading your comment .
    In friendship

    Michel

  • Au fait , je me souviens que tu écris en Français aussi bien qu 'en Anglais ::
    Amitié
    Michel

    ps : je viens juste de lire ta réponse à un précédent commentaire .Jje ne reçois pas les e.mails . If you want , use RYC .

  • Such beautiful cities, Verona, Bergamo.

    Ryc: About the11th. I was kind of confused because I've grown up thinking as the 4th of November was Armistice day. In Italy, whan I was a kid, the 4th was a bank Holliday and we did all the stuff about the remembrence.

    We song "Il piave mormorava ..." (Il Piave is the river where the bloodiest  battle wsa faught, j ust like you did with "Flander's poppies fields".

    The 4t hof November it is also San Carlo, and in Italy we used to celebrate our name day. So, you know why 4th of November it has a meaning for me and the 11th doesn't. Non credo che il 4 sia ancora festeggiato adesso.

    Ciao ... and enjoy Sardinia  ... (Look if you can taste il miele amaro - Bitter honig) it is superb.

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