The Celta Course Trainer's Manual

The CELTA Course is the only CELTA preparation course endorsed by Cambridge ESOL. It provides full coverage of the CELTA syllabus in a ready-to-use course. The CELTA Course is divided into user-friendly sections: * Input sessions (40 units on `The learners and their contexts', `Classroom teaching', `Language awareness', and `Professional development'). * Teaching practice. * Classroom observation. * Written assignments and tutorials. * `Resource file'. - The Trainee Book includes a range of material to be used in input sessions, helpful advice about the course, and a wealth of useful reference material. - The Trainer's Manual includes suggestions on how to best use the material with trainees as well as a bank of photocopiable material to supplement sessions. An introductory questionnaire at the start of the Trainee Book and a review test at the end check understanding of the key concepts and terminology.

Scott Thornbury is Associate Professor on the MA TESOL program at the New School in New York, and has an MA (TEFL) from the University of Reading. His previous experience includes teaching and training in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand. He has written extensively on areas of language and methodology, his most recent books being Beyond the Sentence: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, An A-Z of ELT, Natural Grammar, which won a British Council ELT Innovations Award in 2004, Grammar, which earned a special mention in the English Speaking Union awards for 2006, and Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy (with Diana Slade, Cambridge University Press). He is currently the series editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. He divides his time between New York and Barcelona.