🌎 Mark-Teacher 🌎
🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
😍 13 years experience teaching in-person ESL 😍
😉 5 years experience teaching online 😉
🚸 3 years teaching children in Japan 🚸
👩🎓 7 years teaching "young-adults" (13-18) 👩🎓
💎 TESL Canada Certified (Oct. 2013) 💎
🧘♂️ Yoga 🧘♂️
🥋 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 🥋
🥩 BBQ Master 🥩
🥁 Play the drums 🥁
🎵 Collect CDs (I know) 🎵
🤟 100's of concerts 🤟
⚾ Go Blue Jays! ⚾
🏀 Go Raptors! 🏀
🏈 Go Bills! 🏈
💘 Married to an amazing Japanese woman 💘
🛩️ Travelled across 🇨🇦, 🇺🇲, 🇲🇽, 🇧🇸, 🇪🇨, 🇵🇦, 🇩🇰, 🇸🇪, 🇫🇮, 🇪🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇬🇷, 🇹🇷, 🇭🇷, and 🇯🇵 🛩️
Teaching-Style
🤩1:1 classes for each student - focus on you and only you 🤩
🤩 Build confidence in English - ask questions and respond quickly 🤩
🤩 Learn in North-American pronunciation 🤩
🤩 Personalized Google Classroom where you can find all materials, notes, and assignments. Submit your work to be shown where your mistakes are, and how to fix them with a "teaching-point"🤩
🤩 If you don't prefer Google classroom, all textbooks, materials and notes will be sent to you to download and save 🤩
🤩 No stress (I will never get on you for not doing homework - but if you're motivated to work for me, I will work as hard as I can for you)🤩
🤩 Shure MV7+ Microphone = crystal-clear sound 🤩
🌱 Beginner English Class🌱
💚 Learn the Foundations of English 💚
The "be" verb, word-order in questions, subject + object pronouns, simple present, present continuous, "there is vs. it is", "will or be going to", simple past, past continuous, present perfect, comparatives and quantifiers.
🌿 Intermediate English Class 🌿
💜 Grow in Confidence as you Express Yourself! 💜
Question-formation, "do, does, did vs. am, is, are", gerunds & infinitives, the passive voice, articles (a, an, the), present perfect vs. simple past, "will, be going to, present continuous" with future meaning, indirect questions, reported speech, reported questions.
🌲 Advanced English Class 🌲
❤️ Mastery of English Structures❤️
All present tenses, present perfect vs. simple past vs. present perfect continuous, narrative tenses, mixed future tenses, the passive voice + causative verbs, reported verbs, articles (a, an, the, nothing), phrasal verbs + dependant prepositions, mixed conditionals, "can, could, be able to, managed to", modals of obligation vs. modals of speculation.
🍃 IELTS Test Preparation 🍃
❤️ Utilize the English you Know and Improve! ❤️
Cambridge IELTS Materials, easy-to-follow, personalized corrections of all speaking tests and writing tests.
No listening / reading tests in class. That's for you to practice on your own time (unless you want to :) I will give you lots of materials to work on at home and then in class we work on improving your writing and speaking tests according to the IELTS standardized benchmarks.
Google Classroom to allow students to upload their "writing test" assignment, I will show you where your mistakes are but I won't fix them. I will include a "teaching-point" to help you understand your mistake better. Then, if you're still having trouble, we'll look at it together in class.
👨🏫 Class Information 👨🏫
A comfortable and fun class that focuses only on you awaits. I can give you the confidence to express yourself, ask detailed questions, and respond quickly and naturally.
🏆 Who's better than you? 🏆
🚧 Classroom Rules 🚧
Please cancel 12 hours in advance.
You are free to eat or drink.
(Though I wouldn't recommend eating in a language class)
You are the customer, I am here for you.
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