講師詳細Teacher's Details

Hello! My name is Zoie, and I'm so excited to be here! 

[日本語での簡単な紹介]

こんにちは！ゾイと呼んでください。私はアメリカのオレゴン州に住んでいます。大学生ですが、看護助手として病院でも働いています。異文化を学ぶこと、ビデオゲーム、ダンス、読書が大好きです。楽しいレッスンにしましょう！お会いできるのを楽しみにしています。

I live in Oregon in the United States, right in the heart of the Pacific Northwest! I am 20 years old, and a college student! I speak fluent English with a Standard American Accent. I was born in the Philippines, but my family moved to the US when I was young so I grew up bilingually, being able to speak Bisaya (a language of the Philippines) as well.

I am also TEFL Certified (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). I've just recently started my experience in English teaching and I'm looking forward to growing with you! ヽ(•‿•)ノ

Here are some things about myself as an introduction:)

- I am in nursing school, and I also work at a hospital as a Nursing Assistant, and have seen a variety of wounds and medical conditions with my patients! I love the health field, feel free to discuss health things with me!

- I love to play video games on my Nintendo Switch (The whole Zelda series has my heart)

- I was a State-Champion Swimmer!

- I love beauty, makeup, and fashion! Feel free to discuss current trends with me!

- I watche anime! My favorites were shoujo genres like Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun! My ultimate favorite anime (so far) is Bungou Stray Dogs

- I wanted to try out teaching English because I've always had a passion for the English subject throughout my middle and high school years! I loved to write essays and analyses.

I'd love to get to know you through lessons! Some things I can provide for you are:

- Improving your English grammar and pronunciation (American English Pronunciation - Accent Reduction)

- Expanding your English vocabulary

- Teaching you popular and current English slang, and common phrases (idioms) to make your speaking sound natural

My goal is to create a comfortable, friendly space for you to practice English

I can follow a lesson with textbooks/materials that you want, but I also encourage sessions of free-talk as well, to fully immerse students in English conversation, like you would in the real world! Lessons are customized to your interests, careers, hobbies, and every day living, so you can communicate effectively about things familiar to you.

Lesson Flow: Free -talk 

- In the first lesson, we'll start with brief introductions,and goals for lessons so I know what to help you with. Please tell me about your career, education, travel experience, hobbies, goals, fun facts you know, and interests!

- I take notes of what students say, and use them to form mainly open-ended questions. I encourage students to talk as much as possible, but will move on when needed.

Lesson Flow: Textbook/Materials 📚

- In the first lesson, we start short introductions and discussing goals for the lesson before beginning. It would be great if you let me know what you'd like to focus on:) 

Lesson Flow: Kids 

- I will incorporate some activities and mini "check-ins" to review words we learned through the lesson, as a way to practice pronunciation and understanding. 

- Parents: please let me know if there is something specific I can do more of in lessons for your child (ex. talk more about __, etc). 

- If there is time left over, I can show movie trailers, educational videos,games or anything the child can enjoy as another way to practice English (descriptions, grammar, vocabulary)

I also offer double lessons as long as it fits in my lesson schedules, recommended only after our first lesson! 

Please let me know specifically what you'd like to do and what you'd like to improve on (pronunciation, grammer, vocabulary, fluency, etc). Whatever it is, we can do it! d(>_･ )

I am still new to teaching English, but we can learn how to do this together! 生徒たちのように一生懸命頑張ります！ °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°