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Michelle

Michelle is a certified and experienced English teacher from Portland, Oregon in the USA.
Michelle has lived in many places. She is in Germany now and enjoys her teaching career. Most recently she has been teaching general English for all ages including small children; academic English for high-school and university levels; and Business English for employees from diverse fields and employment levels, including IT engineers, doctors, lawyers and vice-presidents of multi-national corporations. She prepares for TOEFL, FCE.

Her hobbies involve hiking in the mountains or bicycling in the beautiful city parks.

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Irene

Irene lives in Lincolnshire (county of England). Irene graduated from Chester Teachers Training College Course of Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Irene has been teaching English for more than 15 years.
She also worked as in Interpreter and took part in TACIS training programme teaching language open-university technique.
Irene uses a lot of methods and programms while teaching. Students describe pictures, listen to audiofiles and watch videos.
Her interestes are music, Fine Arts, Applied Arts, and Fine Art Culture History.
She prepares for FCE, CAE, CPE, ESOL.

Brigitta
Brigitta has an advanced TEFL certification from Hamline University. She has 17 years of English teaching experience.  She has taught both Business and General English, as well as TOEFL and TOEIC preparation to Indonesian, Chinese, French, German, and Korean students, both offline (when she lived in Indonesia and China) and online. She currently lives in Minneapolis-St.Paul, USA. She is fluent in French and German.
There is no one cookie-cutter teaching approach that will respond to every student need, and so she  creates a learning program for each individual student. In this way, the learning program will be more streamlined and responsive to the student’s learning objective. Brigitta  uses a variety of reference materials such as songs, video clips, newspaper articles etc. Following the communicative method, grammar will also be addressed as needed, although the focus will be more indirect. She strongly believes that learning English should be a lot of fun!

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Karen

Karen is from the USA (the state of Alabama).    Karen has a B.S. in Language Arts/Secondary Education, a Master’s level certificate in TESOL, and more than 10 years experience teaching ESL.  She has taught several university ESL classes, but prefers teaching one-to-one because this allows her to tailor the classes to each student’s individual needs and goals.  Karen has experience in teaching all aspects of English (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) and is qualified to teach English for a variety of purposes such as general conversation, cultural education, academics, and business communication.
Karen is an avid reader.  Her interests include history, travel, politics, and pop culture.  Her hobbies are enjoying the outdoors, watching movies, trying new restaurants, knitting stuffed animals, and talking with friends.

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Nanda

Nanda has a TEFL certificate from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Master’s degree in International Education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, in New York City.  She was born in California, but has lived throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Costa Rica, and most recently, Spain.  She is also fluent in Spanish.

Nanda has been teaching English for nearly 10 years.  In addition to teaching international students and adult immigrants in the US and Canada, she taught Business English in Costa Rica.  She has also helped students prepare for the TOEFL exam.

A patient and flexible teacher, Nanda was trained in the communicative approach to teaching.  Truly communicative teaching is not just about getting students to talk, but creating situations for them to use English in as natural and authentic manner as possible.  She wants her students to feel confident using English in real life, not just studying it on paper.

Besides traveling and teaching, she enjoys reading, listening to classical music (she used to play the cello), and going for walks and bicycle rides.

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Scott

Scott is from New Zealand. He is a certified TESOL teacher with 5 years experience working with students in both Italy and Taiwan. He has taught all ages and  levels specializing in Cambridge University exams such as FCE and CAE as well as Professional and business English exams BEC and IELTS. Scott has also helped students prepare for  TOEFL exams. He also has nealry 2 years of experience as an ESL online teacher, teaching business Englsih to advanced levels in Taiwan.

In New Zealand he worked as a Coaching and Deveoplment Team Leader in a contact centre so has 4 years experience in business and management. He really enjoyed helping people learn new things and grow as individuals so teaching was a natual step for him. In his free time he enjoys everything doing with the outdoors such as surfing, snowboarding, hiking and cycling. He also loves travelling and taking photos of his experiences.

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Shelly

Shelly is from the USA. She has over 12 years teaching English experience. She has her Bachelor’s in Art History and her Master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Shelly is also a certified IELTS examiner and an ibt TOEFL administrator.

Shelly was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has lived in North Carolina, Indiana, as well as Italy and Hungary. She taught doctors, chemists, and researchers how to speak and interact with their American counterparts.
Shelly truly enjoys working with her students. A  good listener, she is patient and curious about her students’ interests and needs.  She likes to use humor when teaching because it lowers the stress and anxiety of the learner so that more knowledge and language can easily be attained. Furthermore, she can adapt to her student’s needs well. If a student needs IELTS preparation, she can help him/her with the speaking and writing components by giving them actual topics that are currently on the exam. She can also give tips on how to get a higher band score and impress your examiner.  Whatever the student’s need is, Shelly will do her best to help the student achieve his or her goal.

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Patricia

Patricia is from San Diego, California (USA). She has a Master’s degree in Psychology and an advanced TEFL certificate.  She is a very patient teacher. She is a student of a foreign language too (Spanish) so she knows what it’s like to be a student.
Patricia speaks Spanish and a little French.

In her classes-Patricia uses movies, songs, games, debates, and finds lots of things that are of special interests to her students.Patricia tailors her classes to her students’ interests. She primarily works with medical, legal, and business professionals at this time.

She has extensive experience in Healthcare Administration, Business, Marketing and Public Relations, Psych and Social Sciences. Patricia has worked with non profit organizations and NGOs in Domestic Disaster Relief coordinating emergency relief services, providing teaching and instruction for recovery from wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
She loves all sorts of animals and participates in wildlife rescue. Patricia currently lives in Spain.
Her hobbies include hiking, gardening, traveling, international cooking, decorating and crafts.

Ray

Doctor Ray is an Australian ESL professional who has extensive experience in lecturing in Universities in Vietnam. He conducts General English and Business English classes, and he has experience with IELTS and TOEFL IBT. He is also a TESOL trainer. Before becoming an ESL instructor 9 years ago, Ray operated two very successful businesses in Australia that won prestigeous awards for innovation.

Ray has a very clear British like educated Australian accent. He can help you to improve your speaking ability by his sympathetic pronunciation correction, and he can help you to expand your vocabulary and grammatical structures with his easy to understand intuitive teaching style.

His interests include the playing and composing of music, singing (he was a professional musician and singer in Australia, photography (Member of the Australian Master Photographers Assn-ret.) and travel. Ray speaks German reasonably well, and he can also speak some Chinese and  Vietnamese.

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Catherine

Catherine is a Canadian native. She currently resides in Warsaw Indiana, USA.   She has a Masters of Business Administration and Bachelors with Honors in International Business Relations and Development and a Minor with Honors in Political Science.  She has experience acting as an Adult Business English Consultant to a wide array of Asians.

Catherine has her teaching license from the State of Indiana and  over 11 years teaching experience. Catherine tries to diversify her teaching methods to better meet the needs and desires of each individual client. She uses numerous teaching methods such as: internet, newspapers, articles, songs, video and audio clips that relate to the clients education, background and working experience.

Catherine’s professional experience consists of a Professional Day Trader, Director and Officer Underwriter for a Capital Risk Management Group, an Intermediate Accountant, and a Manager of Operations.   She has a solid knowledge of Financial Management, Financial Planning, Accounting, Market Analysis, Customer Relations, and Business Planning and Development.

Catherine has a love for animals and spends a lot of her free time with her own two dogs. She also enjoys playing tennis, volleyball and ice skating.    She can speak French and Danish at an intermediate level.

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John

John is a TESOL certified native American. He is presently teaching TOEFL level English to university students in  Ecuador. Previously, John taught English to high school students, business professionals, and university research staff in Kiev, Ukraine.

Prior to assuming his career as an English teacher, John  obtained a Master’s in Oceanography and a Bachelor’s in Biology. Then  he served in the U.S. Navy and retired with the rank of Commander. John was involved in the information technology field working as an A+ certified computer repair technician, and a high school network administrator.  John also served as the president of the TechAlliance computer cooperative for five years.

John’s hobbies include aerobic running, hiking and foreign travel.  He also likes watching meaningful movies, attending music concerts, and testing out food delicacies at various unassuming restaurants.  John is very much looking forward to teaching English online where he hopes to pursue topics such as improving pronunciation, enriching vocabulary, building grammar, and sharing cultural experiences.

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Ann

Ann is an English for Academic Purposes university lecturer and IELTS teacher with more than 30 years experience. She is a New Zealander who has spent a lot of her life in Australia and England. Ann has Bachelor of Arts: Major in Russian. Ann worked as an English tutor to business and commerce university students up to M.B.A level. She also prepared students for Cambridge Exams (FCE, CAE, CPE).

Of the last two IELTS preparation classes she has taught with her programme, all the students have passed, with 2 out of the 14 getting an 8 out of the possible 9, and all the others achieving scores of over 6.5, with most 7 or over. Ann is a caring but exacting teacher who will demand the best from you.

With her careful attention to your individual needs, Ann will enable you to go straight into your degree programme, so that you need only use your valuable resources for that. She really enjoys teaching and hopes you can share this  learning experience with her.

Ann enjoys playing the piano, reading, listening to music, swimming, and learning about cultures, history and science.

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Carmine

Carmine is from America (New York City and Miami, Florida). He has over 6 years of English teaching experience in Prague, Czech Republic (where he resides now). Carmine is TEFL certified and has extensive experience teaching one-to-one privately, Business English courses and online via Skype. He is qualified to teach English in all areas of conversation ranging from sports, culture, arts, nature, politics, business and whatever else may interest and suit his students. Carmine very much enjoys working with people to help them build their knowledge through the use of the English language.

Carmine also works as a golf instructor and a television actor in Prague. He loves nature and dogs (all animals). Carmine enjoys his experience living in Europe traveling and exploring the array of culture surrounding his home in the Czech Republic.