Alastair Dodds

I am a recent university graduate with a passion for Spanish language and culture. I am a fluent Spanish speaker and I have recently started tutoring Spanish to GCSE and A-level students. I am a very accommodating individual and I am happy to help anybody regardless of their Spanish abilities.

My lessons will all be online on platforms such as zoom. I aim to make my lessons as enjoyable and as engaging as I possibly can for all students. For example, I will create fun and challenging questions during the lessons to test what my pupils have learned, and I will always help all students go over any uncertainties they may have.

To make lessons personalised to students I like to create engaging tasks that allow the students to write about their own opinions and hobbies in relation to the relative content they are being taught in each lesson. For instance, if the lesson was on giving opinions in Spanish I would create a writing task where they discussed their opinions about topics relevant to both them and the syllabus.

I aim to cover all important aspects of the Spanish language and the syllabus relevant to the students by devising structured lesson plans tailored to the students needs. So if you have any certain relative topics you want to cover for a lesson I will always build the lesson around what you feel you want to learn.

During lessons I will always try and make sure all aspects of the students Spanish learning are equally as strong. I aim to do this by involving reading, writing, speaking and listening tasks into all lesson plans. This helps the student be constantly interested and challenged whilst also strengthening their abilities in all corners of the Spanish language.