Melissa Botha

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Melissa Botha

Professional Teacher

Teaches

English

Native

Speaks

Afrikaans

Dutch

German

Portuguese

Specialties

Kids

Business

Test Preparation

TEFL & IELTS Certified. Over 10 years working with children.

Teaches

English

Native

Speaks

Afrikaans

Dutch

German

Portuguese

Specialties

Kids

Business

Test Preparation

TEFL & IELTS Certified. Over 10 years working with children.

About Me

Me as a Teacher

My lessons & teaching style

Resume & Certificates

From South AfricaLiving in Cape Town, South Africa (05:36 UTC+02:00)

About Me

italki teacher since Aug 28, 2018

InterestsHistoryFilms & TV SeriesFoodTravelFashion & Beauty

Hi! I’m Melissa, a **TEFL & IELTS-certified** English teacher from Cape Town, South Africa. With years of experience **specializing in kids and teens**, I love making learning fun and engaging! My travels to Mauritius, Vietnam, Singapore, and Turkey have given me a deep appreciation for diverse cultures—perfect for lively conversations about history, movies, or global topics. When I’m not teaching, you’ll find me outdoors, reading, or exploring new ways to inspire young learners. Let’s turn English into an adventure together!

Me as a Teacher

I have many years’ experience working with children of different ages in different capacities. For 3 years I taught children between 3-6 of different backgrounds and levels of English understanding. I had just over a year experience teaching teenagers between 12-18 doing many different activities and lessons. I also coached 15/16-year olds netball. I have au paired for a family and their main reason for employing me was to teach the children English, I used a variety of different activities to help the children improve their English skills. I use many different resources and I enjoy customizing my lesson plans for each student.

My lessons & teaching style

My lessons are age dependant and I can customise them according to the needs of each individual that I teach. I expect my students to be hard working and willing to practice their English whenever possible. I will provide assignments to complete after the lesson to help keep what we studied fresh in my students mind and help them apply their new knowledge in their day to day life. I am a very friendly and easy going, upbeat person and I do my best to make each lesson as fun and positive as possible for all of my students. I am TEFL qualified and I have a great knowledge of the English language and all difficulties it can bring, but I aim to make it as easy as possible for all to learn.

My teaching material

PDF file
Text Documents
Presentation slides/PPT
Image files
Flashcards
Articles and news
Homework Assignments
Video files
Audio files
Test templates and examples
Quizzes

Certificates

Intensive Teaching Business English - TEFL UK - 2022

Certificate verified

70 Hour Intensive Teaching Business English - TEFL UK - 2022

Certificate verified

Teach IELTS Exam Preparation Course - eTEFL - 2021

Certificate verified

Teach IELTS Exam Preparation - eTEFL - 2021

Certificate verified

120 Hour Advanced TEFL - TEFL UK - 2017This certificate enables me to teach English as a second/foreign language to people around the world.

Certificate verified

120 Hour TEFL - TEFL UK - 2017Part of my TEFL certificate was teaching children. Besides doing that, I have many years of teaching children in person and online on italki and as a volunteer. I startef volunteering when I was 19 years old in 2012.

Certificate verified

Work Experience

2016 - 2016

Au PairAu Pair SA - Cape Town, South AfricaOne of the main reasons I was hired by the family to be the au pair for their children was to help them learn and improve their English as it was not their native language. This experience will help me on italki as I had one on one and teaching with each of the three children every single day. I would help them with homework as well as prepare my own materials to ensure the children were having fun while learning new and exciting things in the English language.

2012 - 2019

Volunteer TeacherChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Cape Town, South AfricaI have been a volunteer teacher since I was 19 years old. I have taught people of all ages and all backgrounds with varying levels of English. Although in this capacity my role was not to teach English but to teach lessons in English it has given me great experiences and helped me to grow as a teacher and develop my own teaching style that I feel has already helped me so much on italki as a community tutor. I have taught lessons every single week, sometimes more than once a week.

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English Lessons

Trial Lesson

206 lessons completed

USD 8.00+

Old Students - Conversational Practice

A2 - C2

Conversation

3,000 lessons completed

USD 12.00+

Package with 8% off

Book Club

A2 - C2

Language Essentials

105 lessons completed

USD 10.50+

Package with 5% off

Kids Course

A2 - C2

Kids

3,654 lessons completed

USD 13.00+

Package with 4% off

IELTS Preparation

B1 - C2

Test Preparation

66 lessons completed

USD 11.00+

Business English and Interview Practice

B1 - C2

Business

36 lessons completed

USD 15.00+

Package with 5% off

Conversational Practice - New Students

A2 - C2

Language Essentials

852 lessons completed

USD 12.00+

Package with 9% off

Availability

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571 Reviews

Анна

179 English lessons

Teacher’s pick

Thank you for the great opportunity to practice English with you, Melissa! Kristina is always happy to see you again and again . And every time she is more comfortable to speak and I'm proud of her!

Jan 29, 2021

Katerina

69 English lessons

Teacher’s pick

It was very cool and funny lesson! We were laughing all the time)) My girls always say that you are their friend, they wait for these talkings. Even my younger daughter (she's 2.5) trying to tell stories in English. But first I thought that she is so little)) And I see that English of my oldest daughter is improving) she is trying to speak more and more, because she likes you so much and she wants to tell you everything)

Mar 19, 2019