🇺🇸Native English-speaker from Los Angeles, California, USA
🎓UCLA Linguistics & Anthropology
🌎Specialty: Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
🏳️🌈This is a safe space for LGBTQ + people
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🫱🏾🫲🏼 Teacher Teammates 🫱🏾🫲🏼
Mr. Wayne, British-Taiwanese, International Culture Expert
https://tw.amazingtalker.com/teachers-and-tutors/wayne-chang
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🎥 Watch my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualApe
🤳 Reach me faster on LINE:
@682chjzo
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Who is Alipio?
🧜🏽♂️ Born, raised, educated, and currently living in Los Angeles 🇺🇸
🧜🏽♂️ Graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s in Linguistics (Language Science)
🧜🏽♂️ 4 years experience as a language interpreter/translator (certified)
My Teaching Experience
👨🏽🏫 4 years working as an ESL (English as a Second Language) Teacher
👨🏽🏫 2 years lived and taught English in Japan
👨🏽🏫 TEFL-Certified (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
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What do I teach?
▸ Conversation
▸ TOEFL
▸ Grammar + vocabulary
▸ Pronunciation + the American accent 🇺🇸
▸ Reading articles + comprehension
▸ Writing journals or short stories
▸ Jokes, idioms, expressions, etc.
⚠️YOU choose YOUR lessons, otherwise we will use…
🌈ALIPIO’S TEXTBOOK🌈
I created (and I'm always building) my own lesson plans, now at 30+ topics!
Topic examples include food, music, money and more!
Basic lesson flow:
1. learn vocabulary about a topic
2. learn grammar related to that topic
3. conversation to become an expert in that topic
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How does Alipio teach adults?
🌳 Your classroom, your learning space and pace
🌳 Student speaks more than teacher
🌳 Use learning material like textbooks, test prep, etc.
🌳 Talk to me like a friend🤗
How does Alipio teach kids/young teenagers?
🌱 Reading with pictures
🌱 Speak like an American 🇺🇸
🌱 Kid chooses homework
🌱 Talk to me like a big brother🤗
Other notes
📝 Any lessons cancellation must be notified at least 24 hours ahead
📝 Homework available upon request
📝 Acknowledge our different timezones, anything urgent please LINE me: @682chjzo
✈️ Feel free to send me a message or book a trial lesson today 🚀
