Thursday 1 September 2011

CELTA - the application process

So, you have found a possible centre, it has places available for the dates you want, what next?
I applied to a couple of centres and found each very different in their application process.
Both required a lengthy application form that needed to be emailed/faxed, before an interview date could be set.
One mainly focused on grammar and knowledge of language.
The other I found to be extremely questionable, as it asked a lot of questions about culture shock when arriving in England and suggested that all African women would find leaning English difficult!
For both, I needed to use some reference materials to check my grammar.
I used this site for tenses. Googling for language functions on the net was not so successful. There are a few a pointers here but I mainly relied on Michael Swan's How English Works.  I should say at this point, all the texts can be found on-line in pdf format, if you have the patience to look and can get used to searching in them.


So application forms in, next: the interviews.