What are your English goals and what do you except when you book a lesson with a native tutor?
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- JennyCertified ESL Teacher who helps her student in Conversational English.
I think students expect for speaking skills lessons, teacher who can explain the lesson well and dedicated teacher
I'm not a student but i think the students goals with knowing english is to talk it better, confidently without being shy and uncomfortable. They expect to have a conventional english lesson with a teacher who is understanding and cool! They expect a teacher to offer them a safe space to speak English and to help them where they are wrong so that they can be better with it.
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First of all, Cecilia allow me to correct your question. It should be expect and not except. A student's goal in learning English are to be able to speak the language fluently with confidence. What a student should expect from a native tutor is dedication/commitment, enthusiasm, support and passion to teach.
Firstly, every student should be able to come up with their goals( what exactly they want to achieve by the end of their English journey). Thats is why first lessons or trial lessons should be a conversation class between the student and tutor and by the end of the class ,the tutor should be able tell the student what lessons she will be focused on inorder to help obtain their goals smoothly and effectively. Also some of the English goals include - to improve on sentence construction - increase knowlegde of volcabularies - speak fluently - been able to communicate fluently in English when discussing on different topics( business, travel, parties )etc
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Not so genius, but this has worked with my Asian and Latino students: Substitute all "Th-" in words with a "D-", as it is an easier starting point e.g. instead of "The", ask them to say De(almost like a form of pidgin english: de boi VS the boy). Its a matter of throat to tongue, where sounds with "T" and "D" are easier to begin with and then you will gradually progress to the "Th-" sounds as the find confindence and comfort. You could always tell them to pretend they are blowing out candles on a birthday cake; and for the "Th" sound their tongue should gently touch their teeth, like in words like "Thin" or "This". Have them practice the not so elated soft "Th" sound-- its like their tongue is having a short siesta on their teeth! Such a mental jounery and lots of creativity will get you through a lot of pronounciation hurdles.
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The biggest challenge I faced while learning English was understanding and using different tenses correctly. It took time to get used to the various rules and exceptions.
