CELTA Interview

1. Why would you like to take CELTA course? What do you expect to gain
and how does this qualification fit in with your future career plans?
2. What do you expect from CELTA course?
3. Why do you prefer a face-to-face course?
4. How do you feel or react to receiving feedback?
5. Do you have any formal training as a teacher?
6. You mentioned here in your application that you have some teaching
experience in a school and in a higher institute. Could tell me more about
it? Was it different? How? What did you teach? Which stage did you love
the most?
7. How you usually prepare your lessons? What activities and lessons have
worked well with your students? (Consider what made them successful
and how this informs your teaching practice.)
8. Why do you think you would be suited to teaching English?
9. Could you describe a good and a bad teacher you have had and how, in
retrospect it affected your learning of the subject.
10. Teachers are not solely responsible for their students’ learning. To
what extent do agree or disagree with this statement?
11. Describe a classroom language learning experience that was not
very successful for you (a course, a lesson or an activity) and say why you
felt it did not work or what was missing. Contrast this with a successful
classroom language learning experience (a course, a lesson or an activity)
and say why you think this had more of an impact on your language
development and progress
12. Pair and group work (i.e., all the students working in groups or pairs
at the same time) is a very common feature in language classrooms. What
 are the main advantages for the students of working in pairs and groups?
What possible problems can arise? What would you expect the teacher to
be doing during pair and group work?
13. Do you have a job? Have you managed to take a vacation to do the
course? Do you have kids? Have you organized childcare in advance?
14. What areas do you expect to be challenging for you on the course?
15. Do you suffer from any medical problems?

Questions to ask the tutor:

1. Do you think that there is anything I need to work on or improve as a

preparation for the course?
2. Any other tips?