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Rachel

(64)

United Kingdom

7:37 AM (GMT+01:00)

Teaches

English

Students

Lessons

114

Teaches

English

Students

Lessons

114

Speaks

English

Native

About Me

Hello, I’m Rachel. I’m from England and I am an English language teacher.

My background, before completing my TEFL Diploma was in Sales and Marketing where I was a Business Development Manager within the print industy. In 2012 I left England to travel and obtained my Tefl/Tesol certification in 2013. Since then I have taught in nursery schools, a primary school and junior high school. I have taught college students, adults and within businesses. My preference is teaching adults and with both my teaching experience and my business knowledge I can help you reach your specific English language goals in presentations, pronunciation, appropriate business language, preparing correspondence to use in the international markets, preparation of a professional CV or just the opportunity to speak English.
My teaching method will always be fun and interactive. involve lots of talking and discussions. I will try to find a technique that works to help you achieve your goals. I have worked with curriculums supplied to me and also created my own programmes and am happy to do either. It is important to me that my students enjoy my classes and leave feeling as though they have achieved something. I always aim to offer a level and subject that will interest the students and I try to be as supportive as possible.

I have been teaching English as a second language since I passed my TEFL exam in April 2013. It was a new challenge for me as my previous working experience had been in sales and management but the rewards from teaching are much higher. To date the teaching I have most enjoyed was an eight week course based around Creative Writing to a group of young adults at intermediate to advanced levels. I created this as a bespoke package covering various writing styles, addressing grammar points as they arose, looking at debating and public speaking and encouraging creativity and self expression.

I have also had experience of partial immersion English to Kindergarten children involving lots of reading, game play and singing. This style of teaching does not have the big rewards but one hopes that it gives the children enough fun and interests them enough that they want to learn more English.

Business English is yet another area I have experience and because of my commercial business background is a group I am very comfortable with. I taught within a large organisation giving weekly lessons following a text book but more often than not this would lead onto other points of discussion and exercise for the students. Another business client was keen to keep the instruction more conversation based so I used my own materials and built the lessons weekly depending on the way the group responded. Most of these have been at intermediate/advanced level so it has been the nuances of the English language that I have worked on, or specifics for the individual's work situation.

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Trial Lesson

Free

30 min

Private Lessons

Teacher Stats

Response TimeVery quickly

Response Rate75%

Attendance Rate100%

Total Lessons114

Lessons per Student5.9 lesson average

Average Rating5.0

Schedule

Teaching Expertise

Teaches

Upper Beginner

Intermediate

Upper Intermediate

Advanced

Upper Advanced

Accents

British English

Ages

Teenagers (12-18)

Adults (18+)

Lessons include

Homework

Learning Materials

Quizzes/Tests

Reading Exercises

Writing Exercises

Subjects

Business English

Colloquial English

Grammar Development

Interview Preparation

Listening Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Speaking Practice

Vocabulary Development

Writing Correction

Résumé

Work Experience

2016 - 2016

English Teacher

Saping Medaka Family School - Saping, Nepal

I taught English to 5 to 12 year old under-privileged children in a remote Nepali mountain village. During the 6 week volunteer programme I additionally organized sports day activities as well as extra curricular classes.

2015 - 2016

English Teacher

GAJ Business English, Private Tutor and Eisho private Kindergarten, - Hiroshima, Japan

I was employed three days a week at Eisho Kindergarten where I taught a partial immersion programme of my own devising. At Global Access Japan where I gave in-house business classes teaching conversational English including phonics, grammar and comprehension to groups of managers. As a Private tutor I gave lessons to JHS students and individuala for whom I devised learner specific lessons.

2014 - 2015

English Teacher

Joytalk - seconded to both an Elementary School and Junior High School - Saitama, Japan

I was employed as a supply ALT in JHS and an Elementary school where I used a combination of supplied lessons and my own lessons.

2014 - 2014

English Teacher

ELC School and Rainbow Montessori Nursery - Miri, Borneo

I worked for both companies simultaneously. At ELC I was engaged to design and teach a ten week Creative Writing course in English to a group of 15-16 year olds. At Rainbow I designed and taught an 8 week Introduction to English Poetry course to Level 1 & 2 students.

2013 - 2013

English Teacher

Zenith Language School - Ayutthaya, Thailand

Teaching children and adults in the langage school, seconded to teach in a charity school and presenting at langauge seminar to head teachers