Violette

I am a native French speaker and independent French and English Tutor living in the UK with face-to-face teaching experience in secondary and higher education as well as online (using Zoom) with a wide range of students spanning all age groups, profiles and occupations. With 10 years of teaching/tutoring experience in total, my style of teaching has grown to be highly adaptable and student-centered, dynamic and engaging. I offer one-on-one online tuition and can do group sessions up to three students (with fees subject to negotiation).

Current available slots: Monday evenings 6:00-7:00, Wednesday evenings: 6:00-7:00, Friday evenings: 6:00-7:00 and 7:00-8:00, Saturday mornings: 10:00-11:00 & 11:00-12:00.

Tutoring Experience

1) My institutional teaching experience includes 4 years teaching English in secondary schools in France (3 of them as a qualified teacher) to 11-18 age groups, teaching French for exam-oriented purposes to undergraduate students (University of Sheffield).
2) My five-year independent tutoring experience includes:
-tutoring online French (French as a Foreign language and French as a mother tongue) to all age groups, including early years (3-5), young learners (6-8), pre-teen learners (8/9-12), teenagers and adults.
-tutoring online EFL (English as a Foreign language) at secondary school and higher education levels (including exam-oriented preparation to the School of political Science (Science Po) entrance examination.
-tutoring French for exam-oriented purposes at Sixth and Fifth Form (AS/A level and GCSE).
-tutoring Higher Education French at post-graduate level.
-tutoring Higher Education EFL (English as a Foreign Language) at post-graduate level (services including proofreading and copy / content editing of academic writings).
-tutoring English for TOEIC preparation
-Tutoring French for preparation to the DELF and DALF diplomas.
-Business-oriented French/English tuition

Tutoring Approach

-Offering a collaborative, student-centered and personalized tuition following an initial assessment of the students level in a first free session.
-Each session is fitted to the students learning needs and objectives and, when relevant and adequate, revolves around their personal / professional interests.
-Create my own learning material in the form of PowerPoint sequences. Those PowerPoint sequences can be grammar-based or theme-based and will generally cover a range of documents and language skills (such as reading, listening, speaking etc.).
-Depending on the students' learning needs, provide original content with a strong and authentic cultural / societal input, far from the traditional stereotypes associated with the learning of a specific language (especially at beginner's level.).
-Provide thorough follow-up and adjust, revise or modify my teaching material depending on my students learning progression, wishes and tastes.
-Each student receives the totality of the session's learning material with very clear notes, highlighted key vocabulary and explanations. Each lesson material is carefully updated and post-edited after the session so that my students can keep an exact track of their progression and revise what they have seen and learnt during the session.
-Work is adapted to the learner's pace of learning and exercises are provided in total consistency with the material reviewed.
-I send the material back to my students within 48 hours of their session's attendance with clear directions for the next sessions to come.
-Using Zoom, the students have plenty of opportunity to use the control of the screen either to complete exercises (online or on my presentations), write, draw or highlight contents, depending on their age and the tasks they are proposed to perform.
-The students are given plenty of opportunity to self-correct.
-Each task requiring speaking is followed by a further-improved recap (performed by the student themselves) which always results in a clear and well-presented written summary (with relevant vocabulary / synonyms lists and/or essential grammar points added or highlighted ).