online teacher teaching English
My name is Leroy, I’m a native English speaker from South Africa. Born and raised in South Africa and currently residing in the coastal city of East London in the Eastern Cape Province. I’m 53 years old, turning 54 in a couple of days. I started my online teaching career just over 2 years ago (June 2023) and during this time I have had students from Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Vietnam and China. I currently have students from Poland, Vietnam, China and the Philippines.

I have experience with students from as young as 8 years of age, and also with teens and adults. The types of lessons I give vary greatly depending upon the student’s needs. So for example with the younger kids I provide interactive lessons with multimedia content such as short videos, including songs and poems etc. These generally follow a fixed structure with a warm-up activity, which is usually a game focusing on grammar or vocabulary, and then an online lesson from the British Council online platform. I find this platform to be really useful and effective.

I try to make the learning experience as fun and comfortable as possible for the young students. For my adult students I mostly have conversational lesson where we simply chose a topic and I ask questions and we have discussions where they practice their speaking and listening skills. These types of lessons sometimes just involve having a conversation with the students as they simply need to have conversations with a native speaker to boost their confidence, improve vocabulary etc.

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