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John Swallow

English

Native

French

German

Italian

Dutch

From United Kingdom

Living in London, United Kingdom

CELTA qualified native English speaking teacher with over 7 years' experience Native Sheffield-born English speaker now living in lively London, UK capital. I love travelling—favourites: Boston USA, northern Italy's beauty. Hobbies: cooking tasty meals, running outdoors, gym workouts, chatting cool tech like smartphones & AI. Lessons focus on real conversations—you can pick topics (travel, food, tech) or I’ll set the scene. Talk, read together, keep chat flowing. More structure? Study grammar, TED Talks, news stories using ESL Brains plans—perfect for beginners to advanced, your level. Im a kind, patient teacher who loves helping you gain confidence. I’ve taught nearly 1,750+ lessons, loyal weekly students (some for years!). Join me—start today! I'm a supportive and patient teacher and I really love doing my job. It's great to see students grow and develop their English language skills. I'll push you to improve in every lesson and become more confident in using English. My students and I have taken over 1,750 lessons together and I have many students who come back every week, many of them have studied with me for several years and who still have things to learn and talk about! Our lessons are mostly conversational and will be based on a topic that you choose, or I can set a topic if you'd prefer. We can discuss and read together and keep the conversation flowing. If you want more formal lessons, we can study English grammar, watch real English videos such as TED Talks, or look at newspaper articles. I use industry-leading lesson plans from ESL ...

My teaching material

PDF file
Text Documents
Presentation slides/PPT
Audio files
Image files
Video files
Articles and news
Quizzes
Graphs and charts
Homework Assignments

Interests

Tech

Gaming

Films & TV Series

English

Trial Lesson

29 lessons completed

USD 7.00+

Everyday English - conversation, real videos and more

A2-C2

Language Essentials

1,550 lessons completed

USD 15.00+

13% off

Based on your timezone (UTC)

5.0

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Ron Lui

51 English lessons

Teacher’s pick

Highly recommend the lesson with John. He is friendly and knowledgeable, and is always encouraging for me to learn something new.

Oliver

7 English lessons

Thanks John 👍

Oliver

7 English lessons

Thanks John was a great lesson. :)

Andreia Pedral

46 English lessons

Teacher’s pick

I enjoy all of the lessons with John. If you need a brilliant teacher which helps you to improve your English skills, John is the one. He is patient, gets involved, and prepared. John, thanks a lot for helping me out.

Oliver

7 English lessons

I like the lessons, thanks John :) see you soon

Andreia Pedral

46 English lessons

John is an amazing teacher! I really enjoy having lessons with him. He fits my needs, always on time, motivates me to keep increasing my knowledge, and he is simply adorable. I really recommend him!