InTuition Languages Blog

I’m back in Paris after a week with my tutor in the Costwolds. When in London on my way back I spent a couple of hours in the British Museum but restricted my visit to the ground floor, part of the Egyptian rooms and the Parthenon.I had not seen the reading room before and found [...]

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 [...]

What do I know about sustainable living and energy efficient homes?  Well, virtually nothing!  So, when my student who builds timber homes in France wanted a Professional English course,  at first I scratched my head.  But I needn’t have worried.   I found to my amazement that I could construct quite a few useful activities to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

 Breakfast was at 8 o’clock so that we could start the lessons at 8.30. We talked about the latest World news. We had done a review on the previous Friday and Daniel’s main priorities remain improving his speaking skills, particularly spontaneity, and also to improve the range and appropriacy of his vocabulary in a general [...]

I particularly enjoy planning the lessons to fit around the interests of my students and taking them on excursions.  When I lived in Oxford, it was Oxford, Stratford on Avon and The Cotswolds.  In Manchester it was Manchester United Football Ground, Liverpool and the Beatles, the Trafford Centre and even the  Lake District.  I took [...]

You mention in your email the incorporation of excursions into the teaching programme.  As the daily teaching programme can vary from 3 hrs to 5 hrs ( I prefer not to do a 6he teaching day) and core information has to be imparted in that time, and from one student to another the required course [...]

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 [...]