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Dear Readers,
Thank you for taking the time to read this new issue of our online
newsletter. Now, I am no serious e-zine editor, but I am learning as I
go along. As I write more and more of these newsletters, so they take
on form and shape. On occasion, I have new ideas on what to include and some standard
columns are emerging, such as the :Profile of the month" feature. In
this issue, apart from our news, I am introducing a new feature which
will hopefully become a standard one, the "Lesson plan of the month".
This will include some of the very good lesson plans our trainees have
produced while attending courses at CELT. In this month's issue, I
have decided to include a lesson plan by one of our trainees in 2006
who was also an ASEP candidate. It is a fun lesson plan on introducing
the present continuous to a group of beginners. Dina taught this
lesson to our Afghan beginners and they enjoyed it tremendously. Try
it out with your classes yourself and let us know how effective it
was.
I wish you all the best for this new year.
Marisa Constantinides
CELT Athens
In this
issue:
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Christmas Party & the
TEFLVISION song Constest
And the winners are...
ASEP Examinations for State Sector English Language Teachers News
Lesson Plan of the Month - Teaching the Present Continuous
CELTA October-December 2006 Results
Profile of the Month
- Rosemary Aravanis
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1. Christmas Party &
the TEFLVISION Song Contest
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  These
are some snapshots from our pre-Christmas drinks and music party which started
out with everyne shying away from the microphone and claiming they could
definitely not sing. The day ended with everyone singing along to some great
tunes with the Karaoke and in fact being very unwilling to let go of the
microphone! In this column you can see some of
 our
CELTA and CTEFL trainees (Maria Stathakis, Maria Mylona, Janet Wilson,
Dina Markopoulou
and Dora
Synnefia) having a go, then on the left, Diana Ieremia (one of our first
CELTA trainees
from
 Romania
here for Christmas) and our very own Georgia Georgopoulou
with fellow CTEFL-er and close friend Kiki Deroukaki competing for one of
the prizes! And there were some great prizes!
In the midst of
 some
of his trainees, you can see Robin Wileman,
our CELTA tutor for the course ending in December who refused to sing early on
and then refused
to give up the mike!
Here he is too, dancing with Dina Markopoulou, who was one
of our proud prize winners! Well, so much for all these shy non-singing birds!
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And the winners are...
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The judges, Marisa Constantinides, Robin Wileman & Vassilis
Constantinides were hard put to decide sometimes, but here are
their decisions.....
The 1st
Prize had to go to ...
Alex Vince - well, no surprise really. We knew Alex was very much into
music and he sings and plays drums! Alex won three books - Learning
Teaching, Uncovering Grammar & Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign
Language! We can't remember what he sang but all the
judges thought he was streets ahead of all the other singers!
 The
2nd Prize
went
to Maria Stathaki and
Janet Wilson who sang heartily and won us over with their good voices -
especially Maria... sorry Janet! Maria & Janet won the same titles
as Alex.
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The 3rd Prize
had to be given to Maria Mylona and Dora
Synnefia who sang with great gusto and actually sang very well! Well
done girls! They won Learning Teaching & Uncovering Grammar.
The 4th Prize
went to Georgia Georgogianni and Kiki Deroukaki
who won Reading Skills in a Foreign Language & Sound Foundations.
Georgia & Kiki sang "Last Christams"!
 The
5th Prize
had to go to Dina Markopoulou who won the hearts of the judges through
her excellent dance movements (we can forget about the voice!) and
passionate performance... Dina won Sound Foundations for
singing "I will survive" !!!!!!!
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3. ASEP Examinations for State Sector English Language Teachers
News
The exams are
now done and the news is that some changes were noted this time
round. In part A of the Methodology Paper, the candidates were not
asked to submit a lesson plan of their own based on some given
material, but to evaluate a lesson plan written by a state school
teacher. This was a possibility our candidates had prepared for
and in which we hope they have all done really well. If you are
interested in finding out what the questions were for this year's
exam, click on the links below to download all three papers.
Language
Methodology
Pedagogy
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4. Lesson Plan of the Month - Teaching the Present Continuous
 This
month, I am putting a link to our free materials page where you
can find a lesson plan written by Certificate in TEFL trainee and
ASEP candidate Dina Markopoulou (5th Prize WInner above!). It is a
lesson plan for teaching the Present Continuous to our beginner
Afghan students which Dina actually also taught here in her second
Teaching Practice, but I believe that with minor adaptations it
could be taught to younger beginners as well. Click
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5. CELTA October-November 2006 Results
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6. Profile of the month - Rosemary Aravanis
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 Rose Aravanis
Rose came to CELT as a trainee a few years ago. She attended the
RSA Cambridge DTEFLA and
completed it
with Distinction in
the Practical.
Rose was born and educated in Australia but is of Greek descent.
She moved to Greece in 1993 and has been teaching English as a
Foreign Language since.
She
is married to George Aravanis and lives in Athens.
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Rose has had considerable experience as
a teacher trainer - which she started some years ago at CELT
Athens - and, more recently as a materials writer, writing support materials for Macmillan Publications.
She
recently completed the writing of Breakers, a new Macmillan
pre-FCE course about to be launched.
She is team leader for Cambridge ESOL
exams and an IELTS examiner trainer.
Rose is an approved CELTA tutor and will be joining the CELT Athens
tutorial team once more from February onwards
working on full time and part-time courses.
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you of news, activities and course dates at CELT Athens. In this way,
we hope to keep in touch with students past, present and future.
Please send some feedback about this e-newsletter if you have a minute
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Eleni Miliori, Janet Wilson, Dina Markopoulou & Alexander Vince
Robin Wileman & Janet Wilson
Robin WIleman, the CELTA tutor who would not sing....
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Did you know that you could submit your own activities for inclusion on
our
"free materials" page?
Have a
look at contributions so far and send me any bright ideas for
lessons and activities to be reviewed and published.
Click
here
to view
CELT Athens
course dates
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