Polly
- Rate €41
- Response 1h
€41/h
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- English
- Reading
- Literacy
- Creative writing
- English Literature
- Essay Writing
Experienced English tutor seeking to share literature, reading and writing skills, and a love of the subject.
- English
- Reading
- Literacy
- Creative writing
- English Literature
- Essay Writing
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About Polly
I am a kind, patient and excited tutor of English language and literature. My previous employer described me as a ‘life changing tutor’, and the best one he had hired for his sons in twenty years of working with tutors. I worked over Skype and in person.
I taught GCSE for one of the boys, who was resitting his exams for the second time (17).
I edited the novels, taught literature and language, did scholarship preparation, and ISEB preparation for the other (12). I was working to help Paul achieve scholarship level grades in the ISEB examination, I improved his extensive literary projects, and improved his accent. It was a rigorous set up, we worked for five hours a day, five days a week.
I would be more than happy to tutor Religious Studies (A Level or GCSE), History (GCSE), and to help with EPQs and university applications, as well as any English exam.
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About the lesson
- Primary
- Junior Cycle
- Transition Year
- +7
levels :
Primary
Junior Cycle
Transition Year
Fifth Year
Sixth Year
Adult education
Bachelor's degree
Master's degree
Diploma
Doctorate degree
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
My lessons with the 12 year old included:
• Accent improvement by acting, reading challenging literature allowed, playing games that I made up such as tongue twisters and variations on Just a Minute.
• Critical reading and writing, improved by exams I created for him and extensive discussions of literature.
• Creative writing, improved by editing his work and providing feedback, reading other forms of literature, and teaching him new grammatical structures. I edited his novels, poems, and other forms of writing.
• I introduced him to various forms of literature, including the plays of Oscar Wilde, the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, King Lear, Lewis Carroll. A highlight was getting Paul to create his own ‘nonsense poetry’ in the style of Caroll’s The Jabberwocky.
With the 17 year old I focussed on acronyms and other easy-to-use methods to understand the GCSE English literature and language papers and pass them.
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Rates
Rate
- €41
Pack prices
- 5h: €176
- 10h: €352
online
- €41/h
Details
I will charge the cost of transport if I am not able to travel to the house by bicycle.
No tariff for online tutoring.
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