InTuition Languages Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 This week our student is Daniel who is an Accountant from Switzerland (near Zurich) and we are doing 4 hours of lessons General / Professional. In fact, this is the start of our second week entertaining and teaching Daniel something about English language and culture. Yesterday (Saturday) he spent the whole day in London visiting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our wonderful InTuition teachers are always looking for new ideas for lessons,  with students of all ages and all levels.  If you’ve got any never-fail tips and ideas that you’d like to share with everyone, why not post them here?   We’re looking forward to reading all your contributions.

With a map of the town, which has a number of major landmarks, listed  at one side, the student chooses 3 or 4 of interest to him and tries to mark their location on the map, which has numbers on all the places indicated above. This requires him to connect the place with the correct [...]

You have asked for some input into ideas about excursions and how these can be incorporated into the lessons.  I find the excursions very useful and enjoyable of course. Where time permits, I take my students to London to meet my children who all live there. The students get a insight into life in London, [...]