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Dear Readers,
November, for all language centres is usually a month of exam
preoccupation. So it is with us. As I pen these lines, the Cambridge
external assessor for the DELTA course is on her way into Athens from
the airport to assess our DELTA candidates in teaching their final
lesson. In the first week of December, we will be holding our DELTA
written examinations here. Then, within a week or two of that, we will
be receiving our CELTA external assessor to assess our CELTA trainees
teaching our students here at CELT.
Books to go!
 I
would also like to repeat the invitation to come in and pick up a free
novel! Now, don't be shy! All those books are waiting for eager
readers! We encourage you to pick up one, two, or more books,
especially if you are preparing for any language examinations such as
for the ASEP. There is really no better way for you to develop your
vocabulary!
Do check out our
Christmas party and Open Day invitation and join in!
I wish you all a
Happy Christmas Season!
Marisa Constantinides
CELT Athens
In this
issue:
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November
Name Days- Chronia Polla to all my Maria's Andrews ! Many Happy Returns!
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Teaching Practice Classes at
CELT
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CELTA NEWS
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The
Announcement for the ASEP Examinations is out
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Course
Dates for 2006 and 2007
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Teacher Recruitment Page
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CELTA, DELTA & CTEFL OPEN DAY
& CHRISTMAS PARTY ON DECEMBER 17
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November
Name Days - Chronia Polla to all my Maria's & Andrews ! Many Happy Returns!
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I have so many current and past trainees called Maria, or Mary or Marie or, like
myself, Marisa, I thought it was an important enough name day in Greece to
celebrate and send to all my warmest wishes for this very important day . So
Chronia Polla to all my students called Maria, Marie, Mary, Mariliz and even
Marika, even if they are coming so late!
Chronia Polla to all those named Andreas, celebrating their name days on the
30th.
To those of you not from Greece, a little bit of cultural information. Birthdays
are important in this country (probably more so now than in the past) but a
person's name day, i.e. the day celebrating the saint after whom one was named,
has traditionally always been more important. It is this day that all friends
remember and send one their wishes. So, find out your Greek friends' name days
if you want to show them your warm feelings for them.
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Teaching Practice Classes at CELT
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Our call for
adults to the readers of this e-zine as well as the stroke of luck
of getting Eleftherotypia newspaper to print out our
press release
to that end have finally paid off! Thanks to all those trainees
and friends who passed on the good word and CELT is now very
pleased to have good numbers in classes dedicated to CELTA, CTEFL
and DELTA teaching practice.
Teaching Practice is an integral part of our courses and these
classes have made a real difference to our trainee teachers - and
the adults being taught as well! The feedback from the students is
both warm and enthusiastic and warms the shaky knees of
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The comments which we hear repeatedly goes something like
this: "We feel we are learning so much here! Unlike the lessons we used to have
- conducted in Greek, full of rules and explanations, these young teachers have
managed to motivate us and to make us look forward to our English class! Wow!
And they are only now learning? Imagine what they will be able to do in one or
two years!"
If you yourself are thinking of upgrading your certification to a CELTA or a
DELTA, or just take a short refresher course on Teaching English to Adult, do
bear in mind that you will be able to teach classes at CELT and not have to
borrow from colleagues or go to another school.
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3. CELTA NEWS
This term we have
been running a part-time
CELTA course attended by teachers already living and
working in Athens (or about to do so). The part-time format feels
very satisfactory and works extremely well for the working
teacher. We are very lucky to have a new tutor working with us, Mr
Robin WIleman, a very experienced CELTA trainer based in the UK
who has massive experience of running CELTA courses at
International House and all over the world. To some of you he may
be a familiar name as he is co-author of level 4 (intermediate) of
the very popular adult series "Language
to Go" published by Longman - Pearson.
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4. ASEP
examinations in January 2007
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The date for the forthcoming
examination for English Language Teachers has been announced on
television and you can read all about it at
http://www.alfavita.gr/ASEP/asep20061103b.php
The exams are said to have been set
for any dates between the 14th and the 17th og January 2007;
however, there is no official announcement on the ASEP site as
yet.
Congratulations to two more CELT trainees who took the exam
in 2005 and were recently appointed (Eleni Tsimboni & Argyro
Markea)
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5.
Course Dates for 2006 and 2007
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Please check out our
new course dates for the fall and winter terms by clicking
here.
For those of you who have frequently requested a seminar programme
on weekends, please check the
weekend seminars page to see if
any of our topics are of interest to your or your colleagues.
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6. Teacher Recruitment Page
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Teachers who have completed
courses at CELT are welcome to post their name and contact details on
our
teacher recruitment page. Any job offerings
sent to CELT whether from local or international schools will also be
posted on the same page.
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7.
CELTA, DELTA & CTEFL OPEN DAY
& CHRISTMAS PARTY ON DECEMBER 17
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This note
aims to interest prospective employers in our teacher
trainees graduating these programmes. At the end of our
current course, we plan to organise an Open Day where we will
invite all of the trainees who graduated in the last few months to
attend - prospective employers will also be invited. All CTEFL,
CELTA & CELTA trainees should appear with their portfolios of
assignments, lesson plans, projects and attractively written CV's
(you may also download the EU
Europass CV template for a standardized CV format) |
OPEN DAY
DATE December 17
TIME 12:00 - 14:00
PLACE CELT Athens - 77 Academias Street, 106 78
Athens Greece. |
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PARTY TIME!!!!!
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DATE December 17
TIME 14:00 -
20:00 or however long you last!
PLACE CELT Athens - 77 Academias Street, 106 78
Athens Greece.
Come to CELT Athens for a Christmas drink and for some music. There will be
live
singing with a KARAOKE and a song competition with excellent prizes for the
winners! Please watch this page for further announcements of the prizes -
most of which will be methodology titles you will be proud to have on your
shelf. Many of the prizes will be raffled out to our guests on that day.
Click
here to see some of the book prizes which have started
coming in!
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