🔆Native English speaker from the USA (Neutral Accent) 🔆Published Author 🔆Degree in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 🔆 5+ years of teaching experience, 7+ years as a business professional 🔆170 hr TEFL certificate 🔆Current Post Graduate student in the study of Learning Design and Technology 🔆Skilled performer and public speaker 🔆International travel experience 🔆Bilingual English/Spanish 🔆Wealth of knowledge in international cultural communication 🔆Fun, exciting, interactive, relevant lessons personalized for your learning goals 🔆Build your confidence when speaking English 🔆Expand your vocabulary 🔆A comfortable environment for you to safely express yourself 🔆Dive deeper into your personal communication 🔆Study of arts and cultural expression 🔆🔆🔆Courses Offered🔆🔆🔆 🔆Conversation skills - We will discuss a variety of topics to improve your confidence and ability in expressing your needs and opinions - Our conversations will include everything from current events to philosophy and include a broad range of interesting topics - We will expand each other's cultural understanding by learning from each other's opinions, experiences, ideas, and knowledge 🔆Interview and Presentation Preparation/ Public Speaking skills - You will learn how to remain calm in presentations and interviews - We will spend time creating your personal "brand" and polishing how to present it to your audience - You will learn relevant vocabulary and sentence structure to improve your presentation skills - Practice for Diplomatic exams, graduate school interviews, interviews for career changes and promotions 🔆Professional Communication - You will expand your vocabulary to communicate with professionalism - You will learn about the cultural norms of American and International professionalism - We will focus on both written and verbal communication in the professional world 🔆Academic and Creative Writing - You will improve your written English skills - You will learn how to organize your ideas logically, whether you are telling a story or writing a research paper - You will expand your vocabulary as we focus on correct usage and the importance of diction - You will improve your grammar usage through practical experience 🔆IELTS Exam Preparation - You will improve your listening, speaking, and writing skills - I provide free and current IELTS practice materials - You will learn with a teacher who gets results 🔆Social Studies - You will learn about current and historical events - International approach to Social Studies - You will learn how to integrate the study of humanity with other subjects and topics Recent student success: "Emelen is a very nice person to be with. The whole conversation is very cosy and smooth. Previously, she helped me to prepare my job interviews by conducting a mock interview with and giving me suggestions on how to showcase myself and standout. I eventually landed an offer in a bulge bracket investment bank and I think Emelen managed to build my confidence by giving great amount of support and positivity." 🥇WHAT TO EXPECT IN OUR TRIAL LESSON 🎯During our trial lesson together, we will spend time getting to know each other, whilst talking about your learning goals 🎯I will assess your strengths and areas for improvement 🎯Then I will provide feedback 💐CLASS RULES 1. Both the teacher and student will be on time to lessons 2. Cancellation within 12 hours will be charged as a normal lesson, however; 3. Rescheduling (cancelling and changing) with more than 12 hours notice can be done without any penalty or cancellation charge.