Teaching House Barcelona CELTA Part 2: “Do people fail?”

Today we look at more of the linguistic atrocities committed by Teaching House Barcelona. Teaching House Barcelona gives CELTA courses. You can see more TH Barcelona linguistic atrocities in Part 1.

(The quoted text, taken from Teaching House Barcelona, is in red. Here is the original source.)

“Hard work to complete course work and learn concepts, as well as stress and time management, are all vital skills to ensure students' success.”

• “Hard work to complete course work and learn concepts?” This construction may make sense to someone who lives in some distant galaxy. It makes no sense on earth.
  
• “[W]ork” and “stress” are not “skills.”
  
• The infinitive phrase “to ensure students’ success” is inappropriate. A relative clause should be used instead.
  
• “Hard work,” “stress,” and “time management,” don’t “ensure students’ success.” These people don’t understand what the word “ensure” means.

“If a trainee is in risk of failing the course, we provide early warning and a very clear outline of what the candidate needs to do to improve their teaching and obtain a pass grade.”

• “[I]n risk of failing” is inappropriate. “In danger of failing” can be used.
  
• Missing preposition before “early.”
  
• “[C]andidate” is a singular noun. “[T]heir” is a plural pronoun. This is an agreement error. Good job, TH Barcelona. Good job, Cambridge ESOL, for letting these assholes teach people how to teach English.