In our trial lesson, I want to know what your goals and aspirations are for English. We will conduct an assessment of your level to see what you need to reach your goals. We will take note of your hobbies, how much time you have in a week and also how you like to study as well. Towards the end, we can chat and get to know each other a bit more. :)

In this lesson, we will read short stories and/or books together. Stories are a great way to keep us interested and engaged in learning. We will alternate reading in order to work on your pronunciation while you are reading and your listening while I am reading. We will slow down and focus on tricky grammatical structures as well. The key is to make sure that we get the MEANING. I will also have noted some key vocabulary which towards the end of the lesson you will try to use by forming sentences. Generally the books will be in the young adult/teen category of books. (i.e. Bridge to Tarabithia/The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe/The Little Prince) but I am certainly open to suggestions as well. Come on! Let's read!

Note: I do recommend a package for these lessons so that we can complete the story or novel and devote more time to understanding its meaning and themes.

Story Time!

Let's chat! This is an option for those who would like to have a relaxed conversation and have their speech and grammar corrected. These corrections can come in the moment or at the end of the lesson. For the latter option, I will take note of repeated errors throughout our conversation and then give you constructive feedback at the end. We can also find synonyms and other words for you to use to expand your vocabulary. Basically this class is whatever YOU want it to be. Whatever you'd like to talk about is the direction we will go. If you have no preference, I can suggest some topics too (music, movies, travel, nature, and much more). I love to chat about anything really. :)

Informal Conversation Practice

This lesson is all about images, images, images. A visual approach to learning languages helps us bypass translating from our native language into the one we are learning. We learn a word and it's connected directly to the image thus eliminating the "middle man" so to say. 

In this lesson we will look at images and you will describe the situation in the picture as best as possible. Not settling for a rough approximation, we will find the best words and vocabulary to accurately describe what is going on. After that, we will get more specific and learn the words for specific objects in the picture. As you may well know, there are truly a lot of words in every language. This becomes very clear when you try to comprehensively describe an image, which often times has many elements to it. Is it blurry or in-focus? What are the people doing in the background? Where does it take place? What is the mood of the photo? How would you describe the expressions on the peoples faces?

These lessons are extremely fun. Especially in follow up lessons where we take the first few minutes to review the previous images and vocabulary. The specific vocabulary you had learned can be on the tip of your tongue! It's fun to see which words you can remember.

Images

Taught students from all around the world using both structured lessons and free conversation lessons.