Introducing…Language Life Support!

Most teachers (including us here at celtatrain), need grammatical help every now and again. We will soon be releasing 'Language Life Support - everything you need to know in order to successfully analyse language for teaching' and over the next few weeks, you can have some sneak peeks...for free! Click on the links below as …

Free materials! ‘Putting it into Practice’

For the next month, each week, we will be posting a free lesson from our product: 'Putting it into Practice - Lessons, guidance and resources for an active and principled classroom'. The full product will be released on February 17th. All the lessons include a full plan and can be used exactly as they are, …

Checking Understanding – Part 2 – Concept Checking Questions (CCQs)

In part one, (see here), we established that when teaching, we may need to check students’ understanding of two main areas; instructions and language, and we explored why asking ‘Do you understand?’ is not a good way to check either of these things. Previously we discussed ICQs, (instruction Checking Questions), and now we are going …

Checking Understanding – Part 1, Instruction Checking Questions (ICQs)

In our everyday life outside the classroom, when we want to check if we have been understood, the most straightforward thing to do is simply ask ’Do you understand?’, or ‘Do you know what I mean?’. For the most part, people will tell us that they did or they didn’t. If they say they did, …