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Kevin Colfer
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Test PreparationBusinessCERTIFIED TEACHER WITH 26 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Teaches
English
Native
German
Speaks
Spanish
Afrikaans
Specialties
Test PreparationBusinessCERTIFIED TEACHER WITH 26 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
About Me
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From United KingdomLiving in Tshwane Metro , South Africa (17:53 UTC+02:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Jun 28, 2021InterestsHistoryReadingTravel
Hello! My name is Kevin, I'm 58 and come from Manchester in the UK. I have been teaching English and German for twenty-six years, twenty-two of them in a language and vocational school in Germany. I now live in the beautiful city of Pretoria in South Africa. I enjoy hiking, reading, chess, films, music and astronomy. Of course, I also love learning languages. I did French and Russian at university and I also speak Italian and Spanish. I also enjoy studying dead languages. Alongside Latin and Greek, I recently started learning Old English and if anyone's interested, I'd love to teach that too.
I have a CELTA qualification in teaching English to adults. I have an MA degree in French and Russian from the University of Oxford and another MA in Translation studies from the University of Portsmouth. I also have a lot of experience preparing students for the Cambridge English exams at different levels. I think that learning a language should be fun. I adapt my lesson to your needs and requests and we can discuss that in your trial lesson. **Please note that I do not teach children or those in their early teens. I only offer lessons to students aged at least 16 years old. **
I think lessons should be student-centred. That means that it's important that the student talks as much as possible and doesn't just listen to the teacher. If you would like to do general conversation lessons, you can talk about anything you like. You can expect carefully prepared and well-struct...My teaching material
- PDF file
- Audio files
- Text Documents
- Image files
- Articles and news
- Video files
- Quizzes
- Homework Assignments
Certificates
reference (exam preparation) - inlingua vocational school - 2022In order to gain this reference I prepared students for Cambridge First and Advanced (B2 and C1) exams and also for the German Ministry of Culture multilingual assistant business English exams.
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reference (business English) - inlingua vocational school - 2022In order to gain this reference, I taught business English in a vocational school in Germany from 2005-2022.
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Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom - Goethe Institute - 2021This was a public exam that typically involves around two years of study to demonstrate near-native speaker competence in German (C2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
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Teaching English Online - Cambridge Assessment English - 2020This was a four-week course that provided further training to those already teaching English to train them to teach online.
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CELTA - Manchester Academy of English - 2013Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults. The course included eight hours of practical supervised teaching practice with feedback from qualified trainers.
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Education
1986 - 1990
Master's - Modern LanguagesI studied French and Russian at the University of Oxford from 1986-1990. I was awarded a BA degree in 1990 and an MA in 2008. I also completed a distance-learning MA degree in Translation Studies at the University of Portsmouth in 2017 (certificate available on request).
Work Experience
2021 - 2024
Online English teacherI have been teaching English to private students online since January 2021. This has been a useful experience for teaching on italki in that I have learnt to use various online tools to teach students, such as an online whiteboard and Google Docs for recording error corrections.
2001 - 2022
English teacherFrom September 2001 to August 2022 I worked for Inlingua Augsburg in Germany. From September 2005, I took on a new role within Inlingua Augsburg training young people as multilingual assistants.
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Rating
66
Students
1,276
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
Response rate
English Lessons
English
German
Trial Lesson
40 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
English Conversation
B1 - C2Conversation622 lessons completed
USD 22.00+
General English
A2 - C2Language Essentials326 lessons completed
USD 25.00+
Exam Preparation
A2 - C2Test Preparation126 lessons completed
USD 28.00+
Business English
B1 - C1Business74 lessons completed
USD 26.00+
Availability
99 Reviews
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Karin Seiz
1 English lesson
Teacher’s pick
Kevin is an excellent teacher. He is very kind and patient, and his error correction is very thorough. He listened very carefully to what I wanted and needed and was very helpful and professional. I had a great lesson and I'm looking forward to booking more!
Jul 2, 2021
Soledad Barduzal
66 English lessons
As always, interesting, funny, very focused on my mistakes, corrects them immediately, varied… simply recommended.
Jun 17, 2024
Daniel Stracke
1 English lesson
Kevin ist ein sehr höflicher und freundlicher Lehrer. Es hat so viel Spaß gemacht. Die Zeit verging wie im Flug.
Aug 5, 2023
ahmed
2 English lessons
professional schedule, professional starting, I love it, the teacher gives you motivation encourage you, thanks a lot.
Aug 23, 2024
Mariya Potekhina
19 English lessons
Thank you for the lesson! Really glad to return to our lessons after all this time.
Jan 24, 2024
Emilia & Rosina
112 English lessons
Great, as always!!! :)
Aug 2, 2023
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