Katie Johnstone
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Katie Johnstone
Professional Teacher
Teaches
English
Native
Speaks
Chinese (Mandarin)
Other
Portuguese
Kids & Adults|PET, FCE, CAE & IELTS Exams|Conversation Classes|12 years of experience
Teaches
English
Native
Speaks
Chinese (Mandarin)
Other
Portuguese
Kids & Adults|PET, FCE, CAE & IELTS Exams|Conversation Classes|12 years of experience
From United KingdomLiving in Edinburgh, United Kingdom (20:08 UTC+01:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Oct 14, 2019Interest topicFoodArtTravelReadingHistory
⚠️I'm taking a break from teaching from end of May to January 2025 for family reasons. If you want to start taking lessons in January please send me a message. I would love to answer any questions! 👋
👩🏫 I'm Katie, an English language teacher from the UK. I've been teaching English since 2012.
🎓 Qualifications: MSc in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Trinity College London CertTESOL, MA Social Anthropology and Theology.
🌍 I have taught in language schools all over the UK, Spain and China. I've taught all levels of students and lost count of the different nationalities of students who have been in my classrooms!Me as a Teacher
My classroom is fun, fast and energetic. There's no danger of sleeping!
I like to choose topics that are of interest to my students, whether they're taking General or Exam English. Learning a language should feel fun, relaxing and not a chore! As a learner of Mandarin, I know how frustrating it can be to motivate yourself when learning a language as a hobby or for an exam, so I always include tasks and activities that are engaging and useful. We'll also keep you on track with a student plan just for you, because every student is unique.
I make the most of the time we have in the online classroom and after class I like to send my students feedback, follow-up activities and useful vocab.My lessons & teaching style
📚 Exam English - IELTS, CPE, CAE, FCE, PET, KET
🗣 Conversation classes - speaking, listening, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar
✍️ General English - speaking, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar
What's included?
✅ Individual lesson plans
✅ Personalised slides
✅ Homework (if you choose this lesson option)
✅ Audio files
✅ Articles
✅ Helpful resources to review between lessons
✅ Written feedbackMy teaching material
- Audio files
- Flashcards
- Test templates and examples
- Articles and news
- Image files
- Text Documents
- Quizzes
- Homework Assignments
- Presentation slides/PPT
Certificates
CertTESOL - Trinity College London - 2014
Certificate verified
5.0
Rating
223
Students
4,967
Lessons
100%
Attendance
100%
Response
English Lessons
Trial Lesson
115 lessons completed
USD 9.00+
Conversation Classes - Personal PPT ✅ Homework ✅
A1 - C1Conversation2,286 lessons completed
USD 18.00+
Package with 5% off
Exam Preparation (IELTS, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE) - Personal Slides ✅ Homework ✅ Writing Feedback ✅
A1 - C2Test Preparation704 lessons completed
USD 18.00+
Package with 5% off
General English - Personal PPT ✅ Homework ✅ Writing Feedback ✅
A1 - C1Language Essentials871 lessons completed
USD 18.00+
Package with 5% off
Conversation Classes - Personal PPT ✅ No Homework
A1 - C2Conversation886 lessons completed
USD 16.00+
Package with 5% off
Informal Conversation - Personal PPT ❎ Homework ❎
B1 - C2Conversation105 lessons completed
USD 14.00+
Package with 5% off
Availability
Based on your timezone (UTC+00:00)
My creations
Podcast (1)
Quiz (23)
297 Reviews
Mathilde Leyendecker
8 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
Katie is a great teacher! She is patient and always encouraging! I learned a lot with her and I feel more confident speaking english.
May 22, 2024
cindy
1 English lesson
Teacher’s pick
谢谢老师，很专业！孩子喜欢！
Feb 28, 2024
Ashley
236 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
I've been Katie's student for almost 2 years. I cannot have classes with other teachers since I have class with her, because she's energetic, responsible, and very professional！
She help me a lot in English, we talk about culture, geography, life etc. It's really good to have her as my teacher.❤
Sep 23, 2021
Henry
142 English lessons
👍👍👍
Aug 30, 2023
Klavdia
23 English lessons
I really like Katie's lessons. I was preparing for the CAE Cambridge exam with her and I feel that these sessions helped me a lot in raising my level of English and improving how express myself. Moreover, I had a lot of fun learning English with Katie.
We worked together on every part of the exam that caused me difficulties, Katie gave very good advice and recommendations on how to improve my answer and what strategies for completing the test can be used. Katie also gave great feedback about my writing assignments. She is very attentive and organised, a wonderful teacher and conversationalist.
Thank you very much! Recommended!
May 22, 2023
Vera Huang
19 English lessons
It’s great to take a course with Katie. We discussed an interesting concept to visualise technology by org charts. I learnt new vocab and practised in the class. It’s helpful for me.
Apr 11, 2023
Trial Lesson
USD 9.00
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