A trial lesson is an opportunity for us to get to know each other a little, for me to assess your strengths and weaknesses in English, and for you to find out whether lessons with me will help you achieve your goals. 

The more information you share with me about your English language experience and your goals, the more useful this trial lesson will be for you. So please do send me a message.

We can adapt the trial lesson in the following ways:

1. Initial conversation
Getting to know each other a little through conversation provides a good basis for the teacher-learner relationship. All of our conversation will be useful for me to assess your English language usage. However, if you've shared this information in your message, we can keep this initial conversation to a minimum and begin working on materials quite quickly. Which would you prefer?

2. Selection of topic and materials
I am happy to propose topics and provide materials for lessons, based on the information about your learning, interests and goals that you've shared with me. However, if there are specific materials and topics that you'd like to work on during the trial lessons, please let me know.

Reading texts aloud can take your spoken language skills further than conversation alone. 

Together, we will read texts aloud, pausing to review aspects of vocabulary and grammar that may be unclear, and to discuss the contents of the text.

I am happy to provide reading texts according to your needs and interests but you are also very welcome to suggest your own text.

Sending me a short message describing your English language experience and goals would be a great way to start.

Reading English

Would you like to improve your pronunciation in English? I can offer structured activities, materials, expertise and resources that will help you achieve this goal.

Whether your goal is to identify and work on particular sets of difficult sounds, develop a more English-like rhythm in your speech, improve your fluency when speaking or to attain near-native pronunciation in English, we can develop a plan that will enable you to progress towards your goal.

Here are some of the aspects of pronunciation we could focus on:
-finding and establishing the right mouth shapes for challenging sounds
-learning to produce and to hear important contrasts
-learning when to break to the speech flow and when to continue it
-determining how many syllables words have
-developing an intuition for word-stress patterns
-finding an authentic speech rhythm
-practicing English intonation / speech melody patterns

I am happy to provide materials according to your needs and interests but you are also very welcome to suggest activities that you find helpful.

Sending me a short message describing your English language experience and goals would be a great way to start.