This trial is a chance for us to get to know each other and determine your needs.  (Scroll to the bottom for a challenge.) I use conversation to find your grammar and speaking level. Our conversation may be a question game or a discussion about some event in this week's news. I'll ask you questions about your grammar, reading, and writing skills. I encourage you to ask me questions about anything you want because question structure can be the hardest part of grammar. Many students up to upper intermediate have difficulty with detailed or specific questions. My strength is in essay writing and reading comprehension for tests. Reading and writing are always done in your time as homework. In class I give you my evaluation of what you did well, a lesson on improving what you did poorly and more homework. Message me if you want the trial to include an eight to ten-minute mini-lesson and what you want in the lesson, grammar, reading, or writing.  
Try this short free General English Assessment.         https://forms.gle/ULPwhmgq6YuenYqr7

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This class is for people who want to improve their conversation skills or work on grammar.  Feel free to teach me about your culture or discuss something you read in the newspaper last week.  This is my standard syllabus.    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1okoKi7Mum9uPGTM-qPIMGz4I8U6knbvLQ2-Q6AQzLqk/edit?usp=sharing       I provide both individual and group lessons.  Group lessons are taught on zoom.  For two people, the price is  the 90 minute class but the class lasts 55 minutes.  For three people, the third person books a 30 minute class in addition to the 90 minute class.  These three students get the 90 minute class. Try this short free General English Assessment. https://forms.gle/ULPwhmgq6YuenYqr7
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Conversation or Grammar

After assessing your reading and writing levels, I can teach you specific reading and writing skills. I show you examples. We discuss some practice questions. Then, I give you your homework. Most of your reading or writing happens during your alone time. The time you spend with me is spent teaching you the skills you need and reviewing the homework you did.

Secondary / University Preparation Writing and Reading Comprehension

In this class, we look at the different elements of story telling: conflict, character, plot, writing with show or tell, and so on. There are many areas to cover and focus on personalizing my classes to your needs. We'll look at examples of novels by popular published authors.  Then I'll give you writing homework where you practice the skill discussed. In the next class, we'll review your homework success and study a new skill.

Creative Writing

I can edit your academic, professional or creative writing for overall flow and message clarity.  If you are using translating apps or AI apps to create your academic or business writing, you may be producing text that is not actually native speaker level. 

My experience with AI text generators is that they suffer from several problems. Some of these are they are too verbose, using more words than needed to communicate the message. The level of register is wrong for your audience. They may use higher levels of vocabulary not suitable for your context or audience. Finally, they may not sound like you.
Writing in English logic flows in straight line. Writing also has a purpose. I will look for these issues in your writing and advise corrections.

What you get: I will meet with you twice in 30 minute sessions. In the first session, you show me your work and the areas that concern you. I will read and edit your work in my time. In the second session, I will discuss my overview of how successful your writing is.
I will suggest corrections. If I see large writing problems, I will suggest future lessons to correct these features in your writing.

What you pay for:
You are paying for a professional teacher and writer to review your work. You are free to disagree but this is not cause for a discount or refund of service. You are paying for a review.
How to submit material:
Submit your work in MS Docx or PDF format. Times New Roman 12 point font 1.5 line spacing. No more than 8 pages. My price is $5 US per page

Message me if you have less than 8 places for a price reduction. No less than 4 pages.

I will also edit longer pieces that fit the format described above. The basic price is $5 US per page for 10 or 100 or more pages.

Message me if you want to see a sample of my writing.
Book a trial lesson. I look forward to helping you.

Editing Services

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This is a secondary school teaching certificate for Social Studies Grades 7-12.

This was a 325 hour program consisting of 8 courses and an internship.

This was a nine month, 8 course project based learning program.

I started in the warehouse with various inventory duties. I was promoted to a clerical cost control position in the purchasing department.  I spent the last six years in purchasing and inventory management.

I started as an artillery gun crew member. Promoted regularly, I rose to the rank of sergeant.  In this capacity, I ran the technical section and taught new technicians to calculate firing data.  In the field, I was the Battery Commanders technician: "5th (BC) Field Battery Royal Canadian Army." I served in order to pay for my college and university studies.

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Here on Italki, I have guided adults to improve their English for the workplace, job interviews, test preparation, and conversation. Typically, my test prep students score IELTS 7 or better the first time they do the test. They succeed because I coach them to think, speak and write in English and to stop translating. During this time, I teach from my ebook, "Writing Attention-Getting Paragraphs." In 2022, I was in the top 1% group of English teachers here in Italki.

From Aug. 2012 to May 2015, I taught ESL. From Aug. 2015 to Dec. 2018, I taught Secondary Social Studies to secondary school-aged children.

I taught reading comprehension and essay writing.

I taught North American pronunciation and North American concepts of customer service to call center agents who provided problem-solving services for computer hardware and software.

I taught new adult immigrants beginner and intermediate-level grammar and settlement-related vocabulary.

I taught secondary school children English.