One-to-One English Lessons in London: PROFILE

I've been teaching English for more than fifteen years, in England, Holland, Portugal and Japan.

I've taught people from all over the world - Korea, China, Brazil, Argentina, Finland, France, Italy, Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Jordan..... it's a very long list!! So if for any reason you're in London and need English, contact me. I can help you!


Saturday, 22 December 2007

PROFILE


EXPERIENCE
I've been teaching English for more than 15 years,in England, Holland, Portugal and now Japan. In England I taught at three British Council accredited schools - most recently, for seven years, at the St John's Wood School of English. During this time I've taught over a hundred Japanese people one-to-one, and many more in group classes.
Since moving to Japan December 2006, I've concentrated on one-to-one teaching.

QUALIFICATIONS
BA (Hons) University of Warwick.
English and American Literature
Dip TEO (Teaching English Overseas)
University of Manchester
(A one year teacher-training course.Teaching practice in Portugal.)
Thesis: Teaching vocabulary to elementary students.

INTERESTS
I play guitar and am recording on my Apple Mac. I love music (especially Sixties Pop--Beatles/ Beach Boys) but have wide tastes taking in Chopin, Ray Charles and Cornelius, I love gardens and gardening, cooking ( my chicken teriyaki is not bad) ,reading ( Murakami Haruki at the moment) ,films, football ( Nottingham Forest are my team) and my wife Chiaki (but not in that order)
I speak French and Dutch and am learning Japanese - slow progress but I've managed to write a not very good haiku in Hiragana And when the chemistry is right between student and teacher, I love teaching English.

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