InTuition Languages Blog

Yesterday was my first day. We did a lot of things, check my test, presentation, reading from a newspaper, listening to the radio. It was quite interesting, never boring, and in the end I felt quite exhausted. After a quick lunch and a little rest, we went for a stroll in town and buy an [...]

Patricia arrived from Belfort to Dublin but via London!  It took her all day but she enjoyed the travelling.  I collected her from the aircoach at Fitzpatrick’s Castle just a few minutes from my home at 7pm on Sunday.  I realised straight away that her English was good and she was happy to speak.  She [...]

Last Saturday I went to Oxford, and I spent all the day there, I visited Christ Church and Balliol College. I went to the first college because I wanted to see the Chamber where Harry Potter takes his breakfast, and to the second one because it was cheaper and the garden looked very nice. Afterwards, [...]

Saturday May 21st I took Gilles to the airport this morning, and came back to find his room cleaned from top to bottom – I remarked to the wife that it was almost cleaner than we made it in preparation for his visit! If there was a category for this on my evaluation form he [...]

  Breakfast as usual at 8 o’clock and the 4-hour lesson started bang on time at 8.30. Daniel is highly motivated and had done a lot of homework yesterday afternoon/evening plus he had watched a film on TV. This morning we did a Vocabulary exercise with 20 Words/phrases for spelling, comprehension, discussion and using them [...]

Friday 13th Normally a day/date combination when I don’t stray out of the house, we do exactly the opposite and head off to London to meet a colleague of his on another InTuition course (a good opportunity for him – and me – to compare notes!) We meet up with her in Harrods and after [...]

Monday 9th May The weather confirms to Gilles that he is in the right country – alternately sun, rain and clouds all day, but we end up out on the deck in the afternoon sunshine deciding which course books to use. I like to take a collaborative approach – present students with recommendations but allow them [...]

Sunday May 8th Here I am again, heading towards Heathrow to collect our latest guest. This one has decided to come in on an early flight, instead of late afternoon/evening, so I will have to find something to occupy them, as it’s not right to leave them in their room till dinner at the start of the [...]

Day Eleven – Wednesday 23rd March A bit of a difficult day in that it was Matteo’s month end at work and he was under his sales target. So he was under pressure to get more orders in, and was constantly on the phone, which made lesson continuity almost impossible. I felt caught between being [...]

Day Seven – Saturday March 19th Yesterday’s excursion to Windsor Castle was rained off, so today we compensated by going to Petworth Park, a very typically English country house and gardens, and equally typically the weather couldn’t have been more different to yesterday – blue skies and blazing sunshine. As well as the obvious tourist [...]