Michael

I am a native speaker with a Bachelor's degree in Education, a TEFL certificate, and more than 25 years of teaching experience in universities, colleges, and international institutes. I am a full-time teacher, and over the years, I have taught thousands of classes to thousands of students. I can teach all kinds of English classes: Exam preparation, General English, Conversation classes, and Business English. When I first started my teaching career, I taught mainly group classes to Spanish speakers, but for the last 10 years, I have been teaching online one-to-one classes to students from all continents and cultures. Apart from English, I also speak Spanish and understand Portuguese. In my classes, it is important for me that students leave with the feeling that their time has been well spent. A conversation class, for example, is not just a time for chatting. Students need their mistakes to be corrected and to receive feedback at the end of the class about how to improve their language use. This is very important because if students do not know that they are making mistakes, they will continue to say the wrong things and the more the mistake is repeated, the harder it is to remove them from their minds. The sound that is most rewarding for me is when I hear students say "aaahhh" which means they finally understand something. I hope I can hear that from you too!!!