InTuition Languages Blog

Observers of one‐to‐one English classes often say that there is one important area of the language, pronunciation, which is seldom taught, or even not taught at all. The absence of pronunciation teaching from one‐to‐one classrooms might, at first, seem rather surprising, given that the learner is unlikely to have a similar opportunity again, of experimenting [...]

Like some of the other tutors I have not been a blogger prior to today! I tried Twitter but I don’t think I do anything out of the ordinary to justify tweeting. However, Intuition Languages Blog is specific to what I do on a daily basis. I have been reading the various blogs from both [...]

My name’s Robin and I went on a bus tour of the Olympic Park on Monday.  Rachel, my InTuition host tutor, gave me her place and I appreciated that. It was interesting to see all the sites during the Bank Holiday.  Everything was really quiet because of the holiday. I was surprised by the Energy [...]

I had already realised that Veronique’s English was very strong just through talking to her but I though we’d do the Nelson test and the advanced listening to see if there were any easily identifiable areas of weakness – and there weren’t! We agreed therefore that we should focus on expansion of vocabulary into less [...]

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 [...]

I was interested to read about the student who works in the green building industry and the activities his tutor organised. My student, who works in the installation of photo-voltaic panels, had asked for a general/business rather than professional course, letting me off the hook slightly. I had anticipated some conversations with members of the [...]

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 [...]

Lena is a trainee English teacher so is an advanced student.   I found it was not necessary to do a lot of grammar.   We decided the more important topics were to improve her intonation and pronunciation and to give her more confidence in talking. We did a lot of talking!   We read newspapers and had [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]