Teacher’s Availability

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Phones: ……………………………………………….….… Age: ………………

e-mail: ………………………………………………………………………………

1. Answer the following questions.

a) How long have you been teaching English?

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b) Are you working at other schools at the moment? Where?

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c) Why do you like being an English teacher?

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d) How do you feel about following rules even when you don’t agree with them?

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e) What are the advantages and disadvantages of teaching English?

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f) Do you consider yourself a good teacher? Why? Why not?

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g) Which strategies do you use to help your teaching during the class?

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2. Classify the words below according to the grammatical classes from the box.

noun - pronoun - adjective - adverb - article - quantifier - preposition - verb

a) book = _________________________________________________________________

b) adult = _________________________________________________________________

c) around = _______________________________________________________________

d) boring = ________________________________________________________________

e) fast = __________________________________________________________________

f) every = ________________________________________________________________

g) talk = __________________________________________________________________

h) one = __________________________________________________________________

i) given = ________________________________________________________________

j) antique = _______________________________________________________________

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3. Imagine you are teaching English to Basic 2 students. You aren’t allowed to speak
Portuguese. You can’t either draw on the board nor point to some pictures on the computer
with access to the internet. How would you explain in English the following words to these
students.

a) kangaroo ___________________________________________________________________

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b) pillow _______________________________________________________________________

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c) glasses _____________________________________________________________________

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d) fan ________________________________________________________________________

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e) singer _____________________________________________________________________

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f) bakery _____________________________________________________________________

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4. Now, you are teaching Upper Intermediate students and the topic is Present Perfect.
Imagine the box below is the board and write an explanation of how you would teach them.

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5. Look at the pictures and write sentences using a different verb tense for each picture.

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Pictures from: morguefile.com

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6. Read the poem below.

My Papa’s Waltz

The whiskey on your breath

2 Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
7 My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
9 The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s
You beat time on my head Waltz” from Collected Poems of
With a palm caked hard by dirt, Theodore Roethke. Copyright 1942
by Hearst Magazines.
Then waltzed me off to bed
16 Still clinging to your shirt.

(Theodore Roethke)

a) Select the words you think that an intermediate student probably wouldn’t understand.

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b) What is the meaning of each of the words below?

a) dizzy (line 2) ………………………………………………………………………………………………

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b) countenance (line 7) ……………………………………………………………………………………..

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c) wrist (line 9) ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

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d) clinging (line16) …………………………………………………………………………………………..

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c) What do you understand about the poem?

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7. Specify when exactly you can work for us. Our school is open on weekdays from 8 a.m.
to 10 p.m., and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Morning Afternoon Night

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

8. Write about yourself, your daily routine, your hobbies and the main reason why
you want to be a teacher at Times English School. Also, talk about your educational
background and previous experience as a teacher.

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Thanks! Our coordinator is going to call you as soon as possible.

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