Paul

I am a very experienced Teacher of English as a Foreign Language based just outside Cambridge but teaching online. I Specialise in exams: FCE, CAE, TOEFL but particularly IELTS. I can help you get the score you need.

Willing to travel: 20 miles

Experience: Teacher of English as a Foreign Language: LSI Cambridge/Hampstead
August 2000 – September 2020.

Teaching:
• Responsible for teaching mixed nationality classes of ages 16 and above.
• One-to-one tuition.
• In charge of organizing classes, planning and delivering well-structured lessons and responding to the strengths and needs of students during lessons. Although liaison is constant with other academic staff, full autonomy is given in the classroom.
• For fifteen years, sole person in charge of teaching the school’s exam class, which focuses on IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC.
• Extensive experience in teaching both Cambridge First and Cambridge Advanced.
• Extensive experience of working with closed, single-language groups, designing courses, as well as social programmes, to suit their needs.
• Experience in organizing and giving video lessons with groups and one-to-one classes using Skype and Zoom.

Exam course material preparation:
• Planning and delivering well structured lessons
• Designing and implementing an integrated exam course which combines IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC.
• Co-designing a course based on a coordinated exam/general English approach.

Communication:
• Presenting inset training/information sessions.
• Report writing
• Active participation in staff meetings

Covent Garden Language School, London
Teacher: Summer/Autumn 1999

Linguarama Golden Square, London
Teacher: August 1997 – January 1998
On site and in company

Linguarama Paris, La Defense
Director of Studies: March 1997-August 1997
Teacher: June 1994 – February 1997
On site and in company


Frontisirion Kaspari, Karystos, Evia, Greece
Teacher: January – June 1994
Teaching children: ages 10 to 18

EF Brighton. Summer 1993
Teaching teenagers and organising and participating in social activities.