InTuition Languages Blog

It’s Robin’s last day before travelling back to France on Saturday, so we had our final lesson in the morning before my sister and I took him out to a typical English village outside London where she has a small cottage.  Well, it was only his third sunny day in two weeks and I felt [...]

This is not the normal topic of my English lessons but as my student, Robin, builds houses and needs to expand his vocabulary in this field, I gathered together a host of plumbing and building terms (Thank you, BBC Skillswise!) and used them as imaginatively as possible. When it came to drainage, a spark lit [...]

One of the main benefits of host teaching is the ability to reinforce what you have taught with an afternoon activity.  Clearly this has to be planned around the students needs but they can certainly achieve two objectives, providing an interesting excursion and developing their language awareness.  That is where the immersion bit comes into [...]