InTuition Languages Blog

Sunday 21st. August. Maria is due to arrive independently about 3pm. I’m tidying the garden when I hear her trundling down the Lane, suitcase in tow. She has a cup of tea and a biscuit, we show her round, then we head out to Cramond for a walk along the River Almond and a view [...]

Today, in the morning, we continued with speaking activities. After lunch, we went to see an ancient stone circle called The Rollright Stores. It was fascinating to hear about the history and legends of these stones. They date from 3.500-1500 B.C. It is said that a witch turned a king into stone and then turned [...]

This (having already made a sneak preview of some of the other blogs) is also my first blog. I have a new student Amandine a lawyer from Bruxelles,Belgium this week. This is my first student from Belgium, although correctly a Walloon, as I discovered during our morning discussion. She arrived on the Eurostar yesterday from [...]

This is the final day of Daniel’s 2 week stay with us. We copied the paperwork and posted it to InTuition using the Freepost address. The usual Student Feedback form and envelope were not in the pack we received from InTuition and the student told us that he had sent an e-mail giving his feedback [...]

Thursday 19th Breakfast has been getting later and later, because we sit down with an early cup of coffee at 8.30am, and the conversations get longer as he grows in confidence. He’s a morning person, so he’s fresher then, and has usually been awake since 6 and revising. I need the first cup just to become [...]

We had breakfast as usual at 8 o’clock – it is always important to be regular and consistent during the homestay. Lessons always start at 8.30 prompt for a 4-hour lesson program. We had an excellent lesson this morning starting with 20 words/phrases for spelling, comprehension, discussion and then extensive 2-way conversation. A lot of [...]

Thursday 12th Gilles comes down for breakfast and declares that he has made a breakthrough (my word) while doing his ‘homework’ last night, and he now feels much more confident. After three days I can hardly claim too much credit for this, so he has got there largely by himself, which is great. He’s a diligent, balanced [...]

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 [...]

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