Belen

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3 reviews

£25/hr

1st class free

£25/hr

First class free

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Spanish Lessons

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3 reviews

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3 years teaching experience

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Belen's classes are dynamic, fun and effective. She creates lesson plans to suit your individual needs and offers feedback in the moment. Highly recommended.

Belen's classes are dynamic, fun and effective. She creates lesson plans to suit your individual needs and offers feedb...

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I teach Spanish through stories and comprehensible input, ra...

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£25/hr

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I teach Spanish through stories and comprehensible input, rather than memorising grammar rules

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TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) is a language teaching method that focuses on learning through stories and comprehensible input, rather than memorising grammar rules.

I create a story asking many simple questions to the students:

- "¿El chico quiere ir al restaurante o al cine?" (Does the boy want to go to the restaurant or to the cinema?)

- "¿Tiene mucho dinero o no tiene dinero?" (Does he have a lot of money or no money?)

Students answer with single words or short phrases, staying within their comfort zone.

The key aspects that make TPRS different from traditional methods:

- Students are not forced to speak until they feel ready.

- Everything is made 100% comprehensible through gestures, translations, and simple questions.

- The same structures are repeated many times in different contexts.

- The focus is on understanding and engaging with the story, not on grammar rules.

3 reviews from Belen's current and former students

Dominic Anglim and 2 others recommend Belen

Dominic Anglim

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Belen's classes are dynamic, fun and effective. She creates lesson plans to suit your individual needs and offers feedback in the moment. Highly recommended.

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Medina

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I had several online Spanish lessons with Belen, which helped me tremendously navigate and settle in my new life as a retiree in Valencia, Spain. She has a cool and flexible attitude with her students , but firm and knowledgeable when it comes to the core of teaching. The teaching material she prepared and the progression of her teaching are the aspects of the course which impressed me the most. Belen is engaged in her teaching, a lovely person to work with and a mine of information about Spain and its culture. Thank you Belen!

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Joe

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Belén has been teaching me for one year now and she has completely changed my confidence and understanding of Spanish! With Belén’s calm, clear and concise teaching style I have been able to improve my areas of weakness and become a much more confident Spanish speaker. Belén keeps lessons interesting by discussing real world topics and integrates grammar, and vocabulary lessons through conversation which avoids the boredom of practicing Spanish through repetition of plain written exercises. Belén is also always ready to help and responds promptly to me outside of lessons too. I can’t thank and recommend her enough!!

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