Robert Beaton

I use the communicative approach I will encourage and support you to speak as much as possible.
I will set up challenging achievable goals to maximise the single hour of tuition.
Most lessons will be mixed skilled ensuring the four main language skills are practised with a special focus on speaking.
Depending on your ability I will also help you achieve natural pronunciation and spoken fluency through special exercises and focus on the areas of articulation in the mouth.
The "th" sound is difficult for most speakers but I can modify the lesson depending on where you come from and your language ability.
Most lessons will have a course book as the Skelton of the course so that we have a weekly topic and set lesson aims but we would also supplement the book study with speaking tasks and cultural awareness or exchange.
Based on your performance with the material we can together target specific exercises to improve your language skills. For example let's say you struggle with grammar, after a few questions I can identify your main weaknesses and prepare especially prepared exercises for your learning needs. In between these key skills practise and study there will be some targeted speaking tasks. This is fine to break up the main task and let us focus on specific speaking skills such as speaking for accuracy or for fluency. If it's your accuracy we need to start slow focus on the unforced errors. For fluency we need to look at building speed and confidence through clear practise.