I'm a retired teacher, and language assessor. I have worked teaching English to adults at all levels in the community and at the university level. I'm an outdoor enthusiast and enjoy exploring with family and friends.. Being engaged with people from all over the world is very enjoyable and is always a learning experience for me. I would like to continue my connection with those learning English, as I too, am a language learner. I understand the desire to accomplish the skill of another language, and in my case it's Italian.
Me as a Teacher
As a teacher, it's important for me to connect with learners on a social or academic conversational level. If you are a beginning English speaker or advanced, I can work with you. I know the objective is to feel comfortable and confident using English, and I am able to speak with each person at his or her level. The best thing about connecting with each other is to find out the interests of the learner. I'm able to help guide the learning process with friendly and interesting conversation. My past teaching experience will be helpful in suggesting tools, and activities for the adult learner.
My lessons & teaching style
As a Community Tudor, I would follow what I stated in 'Me as a Teacher'. My conversations will be guided by the learner. I am familiar with most careers, and/or hobbies, and can ask questions about most topics at a suitable level of language to encourage the learner to engage easily with me. It often surprises me, and the learner, how much they can speak in English about things that really interest them. Asking questions, and speaking slowly and carefully are great tools to encourage success in conversation.
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284 Reviews
vicente
39 English lessons
Today I had another great conversation class with Jeannie. We started talking about politics, because today we are having the second hound of elections here in Brazil for mayors in big cities, cities with more than two hundred thousands of voters. After that we talked about some words related to Halloween, once next week we will have Halloween parties everywhere, mainly in north America. We don’t have a strong tradition in Halloween parties here in Brazil, but it has grown fast because movies, music and North America culture worldwide. So, she explained me how they carve pumpkins to make something like a head, she made a comparison between the the past and present when it comes to go out and ask for candies, about the costumes and the parties themselves. It seems that we picked up the date to celebrate, some items, the basic idea, but we adapted many different things to Brazilian reality.
Oct 27, 2024
Malin
1 English lesson
Jeannie was a best teacher I have ever met. She gave me many fantastic suggestions. I learnt a lot from this session. Highly recommended.
Oct 27, 2024
vicente
39 English lessons
Yes, I always have a great experience talking with Jeannie. By the way, thank you so much, Jeannie, you take a big part of my improvement. Today we talked about many topics, but mainly about my routine here. Self service restaurants are really popular here in Brazil and we find them everywhere, in small towns, villages and big cities as well. In my opinion, they are fair, because you pay only for the food you eat. There are different restaurants for different pockets. If you go to a cheap restaurant, you will find the basic food, but if you go to an expensive one you will a place full of fruits and vegetables, another one with hot food such as meat, salmon, beans, rice potatoes, pork, chicken, barbecue and so on. There is even a place for delicious desserts. I see many advantages in these restaurants, because you don’t have to wait for you food to be cooked, you choose the food you like, you have many options. Besides this, it doesn’t make sense to cook at home only for my wife and me
Oct 20, 2024
vicente
39 English lessons
Yes, I had another great conversation class today with Jeannie and we talked about many different things but mainly about my decision to improve my spoken English. 1) I bought the book THE POWER OF NOW in English to read outloud. This a kind of book that I love and I read it in Portuguese many years ago, so I think I will kill to birds with one stone: improve myself and my English, which will be my first in English. 2) I will simulate some situations in which I will ask questions and answer them myself. Exemple: I will be a taxi driver working and talking with my passenger 3) I will put my routine, my daily life in English. I am sure I will learn thousands of new words, expressions and Phrasal Verbs with things I do every day and they will be easy to memorize, because they are in my routine. I will have to be disciplined to go ahead with the plan and I count on my lovely teacher Jeannie to reach my goals.
Oct 13, 2024
Élida
5 English lessons
Jeannie Locatelli is a very good teacher. She is very attentive and corrects us accurately. I am learning a lot from her about how to improve my pronunciation in English.
Oct 9, 2024
vicente
39 English lessons
After two weekends in a row skipping conversation classes I had another great one with Jeannie and we talked about many different topics, but much about the reasons I skipped our conversation classes. My wife had an appointment with her doctor to see how she is recovering from a surgery she went through on 08/11/24 in her right shoulder. Fortunately the recovery is going great, the physiotherapy is working and I believe that on next appointment on 11/05/24 the doctor will say that she will be released to work out and will have her daily life. As the appointment was in BH, the capital of our state, we took one day off, visited our daughter, our son-in-law and our granddaughters. Also we took advantage of the opportunity and went a show by JOS STONE , who was performing there on Sunday. We loved her songs, her performance, her interactions with her fans and her kindness. There was a time when she went down from the stage and went to hug her fans, which is a really dangerous action.