Experienced tutor here to help with your language skills, learning goals and speaking confidence.
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Experienced tutor here to help with your language skills, learning goals and speaking confidence.
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
Resume
From United KingdomLiving in Joao Pessoa, Brazil (13:59 UTC-03:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Aug 17, 2021
InterestsFilms & TV SeriesFoodMusic
Hi, my name is Lucas and I currently live in the Northeast of Brazil, but I was born and raised in London, England. I am a native speaker and fluent in both English and Portuguese because, although I was born in England, I have been living in Brazil for twelve years and have maintained constant contact with speakers of both languages. I am always around an academic environment as my mum is a teacher, which has made me interested in teaching since it’s also a way that allows me to learn. I study Dentistry at a Brazilian university and before the pandemic, I tutored English and Portuguese language students. I look forward to be able to do it again and to have you as a student.
Me as a Teacher
I really enjoy learning new languages and hope to also make it fun for other people by tailoring classes specifically to attain the students personal goals, which I would do by bringing subjects that will engage the learner to participate more in the class. This way I can help them by correcting and giving tips on how to improve sentence structures where it is needed and also help by using techniques that I have personally utilized to learn different languages over the past years. Overall, I do my best to make this usually hard task less challenging with a minimum amount of struggles by speaking clearly and being patient, so that my classes have a relaxed, informative and informal manner.
My lessons & teaching style
From what I have gathered over time from both my personal experience and tutoring language students, they mainly concentrate on grammar and translating skills but fail to focus enough on conversation. My approach is more conversational based where the student and I can talk about almost any subject they want to focus on, like a normal day to day conversation in which we can discuss hobbies, films, music lyrics or aspects about each others cultural backgrounds. I also like to include certain idioms and slang so that the student can get an idea of how a native speaker talks. Usually, during lessons I practice pronunciation with students to additionally also help improve reading skills.
My teaching material
Video files
Image files
Articles and news
Text Documents
Teaching experience
2018 - 2021
TutorPrivate tutor - Brazil
2021 - Current
TutoriTalki - Brazil
Education
2020 - 2024
Bachelor’s - DentistryUFPBLast year dental student.
Work Experience
2020 - 2024
Dental studentUFPB - Brazil
5.0
Rating
214
Students
2,974
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
Response rate
5.0
Rating
214
Students
2974
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
Response rate
English Lessons
English
Portuguese
Trial Lesson
64 lessons completed
USD 6.00+
English Conversation Practice
B1 - C2Conversation2,900 lessons completed
USD 7.00+
Package with 10% off
Availability
Based on your timezone (UTC+00:00)
142 Reviews
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English
Portuguese
ana
24 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
I really enjoy classes with Lucas because he really knows how to make you learn and understand while having a good time. He is super clever, patient, and cheerful! I couldn’t have found someone better than him to take my english lessons!!:)
Nov 3, 2021
Amarildo
7 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
The classes with Lucas are out of this world! It's just amazing. Out of a rate from 0 to 10, I would give him 100! I believe wholeheartedly that he is one of the best teachers here. I totally recommend him.
Oct 20, 2021
Elvine
23 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
This is my second lesson with Lucas. I am still very happy. He is a patient teacher. We reviewed the prononciation of few words. As I am french it’s complicated for me to pronounce complicated words in English so I thank you Lucas for helping me to pronounce these words and he also sent me the audios of these difficult words - this is very helpful for me 😊
Oct 6, 2021
antonio
2 English lessons
It was interesting the broad sharing of ideas about current events. The teacher spoke with perfect Standard English and was always easy to understand his words.
Nov 20, 2024
Ana Beatriz Silva
1 English lesson
This was my first class and I loved it, for me English is very important and I see that even though I have been taking English classes for some time, practicing speaking will always be important to improve my English and with this class the teacher showed me some points that I need Pay attention, we had a great conversation and I'm very excited to schedule the next class. I really recommend taking classes with Lucas, he is very kind, patient and calm, giving us a lot of confidence in classes so that we can express ourselves and speak without fear.