Speak With Confidence: Better English Through Poetry and Verbal Reasoning. Improved speaking, understanding, and grammar.

From 34 £ /h

This course was originally developed for a Poetry Olympiad to train high school competitors in a crash-course.

It has two components:
1. Poetry. The poems are selected for their ease of understanding and complexity of performance. Each poem is read aloud in at least two different readings, with focused training on emphasis, pronunciation, and meaning.
2. Verbal Reasoning Tests. These are commonly used to test English understanding. Each test gives a short paragraph then four statements which can be true, false, or not given. In making your decision and double-checking for what's actually being said (rather than implied) you can learn to effectively understand complex or technical English texts.

The course is intended for ten sessions. An initial session will introduce the material and adjust the level of the lessons to your personal needs. Further sessions will include one poem and one verbal reasoning test. Homework between sessions will involve practicing the next poem and reading the next Verbal Reasoning Test (around 200 words).

Extra information

No additional material is required, but you will need to actively practice the homework.

Location

Online from South Africa

About Me

They say that you need to write a million words of rubbish before you write anything good. I’m on about three or four million now, and I think I’m getting the hang of it. I can't readily think of any kind of academic, corporate, business, or social communications I haven't produced over the years.
I've taught primary school children maths through growing their own gardens, TEFL to adults, and university work including postgraduate science and philosophy students. Along the way I also became a scuba diving instructor and taught a lot of diving, too.
My teaching style is focused on identifying interest. All learning begins with wanting to learn about something so you can better express your thoughts, so it starts not with the technicalities but in unlocking and feeding your own passion and journey.

I'm so dedicated to mastering communication that I record esoteric audiobooks for fun. I'm also familiar with publishing eBooks, paperback, audiobooks, and all associated marketing and advertising content, including putting together a trilingual kid's book about a sausage dog last year. That covers advertising, web design, journalism, teaching material, fiction, E-publishing, academic and audiobooks. My corporate experience includes over a decade of producing content from clinical complaint responses and marketing material to workflows and call-centre training materials.
My systems approach is to make people’s lives easier and let the system do the heavy lifting for compliance. Automating the little stuff lets people focus on the real task at hand. That systems work covers development from teaching schoolchildren maths through gardening to creating at-a-glance indexes for staff, risk and complaints data for a primary care group with 44,000 patients.

Education

2011 PhD (Philosophy) (incomplete). University of KwaZulu-Natal.
2006 Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (Oxford House)
2004 OWSI PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, EFRI Emergency First Response Instructor (Perhentian Pro Divers, Malaysia)
2003 MA Postmodernism & Contemporary Culture. (Royal Holloway)
2002 BA English (Hons.) (Royal Holloway, University Of London)

Experience / Qualifications

2010- Corporate Support (Healthcare) including policy material and guidance
2003- Publishing of eBooks, paperbacks, and audio, including marketing
2013-2019 Web Development for businesses and NGOs
2010-2014 Project Management with up to 14 staff and complex stakeholders
2009-2017 Course Development in academic, corporate and NGO fields
2009-2015 Journalism from reviews to publication management
2003-2008 Teaching & Training from extreme sports to philosophy lecturing

Age

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

45 minutes

The class is taught in

English

Skills

English

English for adults

School

English as a second language (esl)

Public speaking

Poetry

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New York

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