CELTA TP3 Meeting Notes

Google Drive & Sharing Documents

  • Fran suggests Patrick puts documents into Google Drive in the "drafts" folder within the portfolio.
  • Share documents from the drive so Fran can see changes instantly.
  • Patrick should still note the deadline time, and only email if there's a problem.

TP2 Comments & CELTA Stage One Progress Record

  • Fran will take comments from TP2 and put them into Patrick's/Peter's stage one progress record in CELTA five.
  • An email titled "after TP2" will be sent, attaching TP3 materials with explanations.

Private Tutorial & Assessment Criteria

  • Patrick has a private tutorial with Fran after stage two to discuss specific examples related to feedback on TP1 and TP2.
  • Fran suggests looking at the assessment criteria document, especially the examples of criteria at the end (labeled with letters and numbers like 4a, b, c, 1).

Technical Issues & Uval's Presentation

  • Due to previous connectivity problems, students will stay behind after Vita's lesson for Uval to share slides.
  • Uval should have slides open and ready.
  • Vita to hand over to Uval after her lesson.

Observers & Task

  • Observers (Nikki and Yuval) should focus on how teachers help students understand context, meaning, pronunciation, and form in language lessons.

Email Access & Materials Check

  • Yuval and Nikki should check emails received after TP2 with TP3 points to ensure they can access materials.
  • Vita and Patrick should also check TP materials and ask questions if needed.

Zoom Tasks

  • Nikki will privately message students to collect email addresses to avoid public sharing due to privacy concerns.
  • Yuval will manage the waiting room, admitting students.
  • If a student's name is not clear (e.g., "iPhone 4"), Yuval should send a private message asking them to rename themselves or ask for their name and rename them.

Teaching Schedule & Host Role

  • Patrick teaches first.
  • Patrick to give Fran the co-host role.

Lesson Start & Student Engagement

  • Encourage students to feel calm and focused.
  • Patrick to conduct a lesson with students about different types of food.

Screen Sharing Issues

  • Students initially see Zoom screen instead of PowerPoint presentation.
  • Patrick needs to share the PowerPoint presentation explicitly.

Food Discussion & Preferences

  • In initial discussion, students share about photos of different foods, ingredients, or country of origin.
  • Nada identifies the first picture as Arab food with rice, vegetables and meat.
  • Sallie also identifies the first picture as being familiar, with rice, tomato, cucumber, beans, and fried chicken. Garlic is also stated as an ingredient.
  • Francisco indicates being unsure about the types of the foods but sees rice and cucumber in the first picture, and lasagna in the second picture.

Audio Exercise & Food Descriptions

  • Students listen to people describing foods. The task is to match food descriptions to pictures.
  • The audio describes a chocolate cake with chocolate sprinkles, milk but no sugar.
  • The audio describes food with rice, egg, and cucumber, which is hot and sour. The person did not like it because it was dry and too hot.

Vocabulary & Pronunciation

  • The lesson focuses on pronunciation, the number of syllables, and stress in the words:
    • Sweet: one syllable; stress on the whole word. Dark chocolate is not sweet
    • Delicious: three syllables (de-li-cious); stress on "li". The water is delicious example sentence given.
    • Dry: one syllable; stress on the whole word. Potato is dry example sentence given.
    • Light: one syllable; stress on the whole word. Refers to a meal with vegetables but not much fat. Light food is healthy for our body because it includes vitamins.
    • Plain: one syllable; stress on the whole word. It means the food is not spicy. For example rice without any oil or salt. It is simple. Can is a plain food if there aren't a lot of additives.

Applying Vocabulary

  • Students listen to audio clips and match adjectives to descriptions.

Student Discussion & Practice

  • Students will talk about what counts as sweet, plain food in breakout rooms, but there are technical issues.
  • The questions for the students to discuss and answer together are: "What kind of taste do you enjoy? What's the most unusual food you've eaten?"
  • There also were problems with internet connections.

Breakout Room Feedback

  • Francesca had a weird experience eating a cow udder as a child. She is now vegetarian.

Wrap Up & Key Points

  • Reminder that the word "food" is uncountable.
  • Students review words and ideas related to food tastes (sweet, plain, hot) and discuss which foods have these properties.
  • Sallie likes spicy food. Mira likes to eat chocolate and sweets. Francesca prefers unusual food.