Online TFI test preparation courses - 198 teachers found

I am an enthusiastic and motivating qualified language teacher and freelance translator with Italian as a mother tongue, a near-native knowledge... of French and very good knowledge of English. I have been teaching languages for over 18 years to graduate and post-graduate students in Italy and in France, where I have lived for 7 years. I always accurately prepare my lessons in advance, I am aware of social, cultural and political life, and I enjoy sharing this information with my students. All my classes are student-centered and personalised according to my students level as well as their interests, goals and learning style. Also, being perfectly trilingual myself, I have already gone through the language learning process and can better understand this process and empathize with my students. My regular students are also assigned homework and are free to message me any time for help, further explanations or corrections, are regularly offered special links and extra-materials. **CREDENTIALS** - NATIVE ITALIAN SPEAKER (born and grown up in Italy from Italian parents) - NEAR-NATIVE KNOWLEDGE OF FRENCH ( French resident 2002-2012) -Proficient in English (I have been working with native English speakers on a daily basis for over 7 years) -Teaching Training Course in Didactics of Italian as a Foreign language with the Humanist method, Milan (Italy) -Doctoral Thesis in Cultural Anthropology: Pacte Civil de Solidarité -M.A. Honours in French & English Language and Literatures, Cagliari (Italy) -18 years experience as a Language Teacher at graduate & post-graduate level in Italy and France and over 10 years online. Read more

'3 Cheers, For Radar Ears' Hi there! I am a language artist! English is the language I paint with. Why do I paint? Since using language for... everyday things involves imagery, most of all in speech, for native speakers of English, OR ANY language:- The simile: your ears are as Big as an Elephant's! (No, really?!); The metaphor: the fog lay down on the hill as still as a ghostly, skulking wolf (Spooky, huh?) I have been teaching English, and French, for over 25 years. I enjoy it so much, as I have a very strong desire to spark the imaginations of the students I teach. Language learning should always be a lot of fun- it IS a lot of fun, EVEN if you have a test to do, there's always a game, a quiz, a puzzle or a piece of artistic writing that can be tried, to make it LESS of a task, and MORE of a fun challenge. How about writing a song? A rap? A poem? A story? A cartoon? Make a video, a film? A podcast? Does anyone tell you it can’t be done? If they do, they’re CRAZY. I always spend time encouraging students, helping them to realize, we can achieve a lot, if we DON'T WORRY. So, students can gain a lot of confidence with this good feeling. I am a writer, writing poetry, short story and I am writing a Young Adult Fantasy novel. That's why language is so interesting for me, and I love imparting that love of language to my students. I have been a tutor of English AND French, for 13 years. I visit the students' homes, normally, here in Scotland, but have started to use Zoom to do online tutorials, due, of course, to the recent Public Health Emergency, the pandemic, around the whole world. We need NOT be afraid of this. It WILL pass. In classrooms, I had the wonderful luxury of a Smartboard, or sometimes a Promethean board- electronic, interactive, online and magical classroom teaching and learning, via an electronic Smart Pen. How much fun was that? A LOT. Kids could come out and TEACH the class, when their groups had decided HOW best to learn the language we were engaged with- that was one fun way of learning. So, I might be older, but new technology fascinates me, as I know it will make LEARNING EASIER. Who wants to bust their guts learning grammar?? I know I hated learning often by ROTE, in French. It can help, sometimes, just to learn things off by heart, but there are too many other ways to learn, to ignore them. I will use Powerpoints, Microsoft Word Documents, Excel spreadsheets (you never know!) Internet links, video, Podcast links, newspaper articles, news flashes or news podcasts/ videos, recorded pieces of audio, interactive whiteboards (Zoom has these), PEOPLE LIVE on video, speaking English, anything, at all, to make learning English language STICK in your minds like GLUE. Why '3 Cheers, For Radar Ears'?! Listening very carefully to speech, in any language, will REALLY help you to speak that language well. I would get friends in Hong Kong (1998-2006), as well as Chinese teachers and students, to repeat things in Cantonese, again and again, to LISTEN to exactly how they said words, then I would repeat and repeat. Cantonese is the hardest language I ever learned- I can't write Chinese, or read it very well. I CAN speak quite well, in the language of Guangdong (English : Canton) and Hong Kong. I have, obviously, fluent French: On ne peut pas enseigner le francais, sauf si l'on en parle courrament. I have some basic Mandarin. I have some German and Spanish, some of my wife's language, Tagalog (Filipino)- I just need to go live there, to pick it up better. How did I do it? : 3 Cheers, For Radar Ears! So, if I have learned how to speak, read and write in other languages, guess what? I know the KNACK, the ways that help you do it. Just let me show you. I swear it will be good fun :) Read more

Spanish is my mother tongue. I used to be a French and English teacher in my country. Now I live in Europe, where I am studying towards a Master... in Literature, Poetics and Creation, at the Clermont-Auvergne University, in France. For the last ten years I have focused on perfecting my knowledge of French,English and Spanish, which has given me the tools to develop quality classes. The fact of being in the university and being able to have access to databases in research allows me to continue resourcing essential materials for a good performance. But I think the most important fact is that I live in the country where they speak one of the the languages in which I specialize; a fact that (combined with my linguistic knowledge) allows me to obtain high levels of efficiency in my work as a techer. I have a diploma in Philology and Foreign Languages from the National University of Colombia. Read more

I have been a teacher for more than 20 years. I am French and I studied English in France but also in England. I live in Indonesia. I am really... into adaptive teaching and innovative teaching methods using different new technologies and different skills. I create my own material and my purpose as a teacher is to adapt to my students and keep them motivated and eager to learn. I always choose subjects related to my students' background and environment, always in context and using as many authentic documents as I can. My teaching really goes beyond mere language learning but provides openness to different cultures (French but also English, American and Australian) English and French are real passions for me and I love comparing and studying both languages through my readings and different language contacts. Teaching a language is loving it and understanding it perfectly. My advantage is to know both English and French and to be able to explain to non-French or non-English speakers how things work, make relevant comparisons when possible. French is my mother tongue but I studied English thoroughly and lived in the UK. Now I am a teacher in an International school in Indonesia. I have been living here for nearly 5 years and I enjoy the opportunity to teach students from different backgrounds and different origins. Getting back to my experience as a teacher, I would say my career has been so far characterised by diversity : diversity of schools, of year levels, of interests (from adults at the university to primary school children or again, disadvantaged students who did not really see the point in learning English while living in France, or again eager and learned students who aimed at entering prestigious universities). Throughout these experiences, I have learned how to evolve in my practices, to adapt to my students and their interests and to challenge my students in a very comprehensive and tolerant way. Read more