Pre-advanced / Advanced Level

Tutor would help student build more advanced skills of communications, academic reading, writing, and critical thinking that prepare the learner for high school or college work. Student would be expected to work on comprehension and analysis of a variety of texts and expressing himself/herself more fluently with increasingly sophisticated vocabulary and language. Listening and speaking activities may include watching news, lectures, and TED Talks, with emphasis on listening comprehension strategies, effective note-taking, oral communications, and presentations. Student may expect to do tasks that enhance critical thinking abilities such as making inferences from stories or informational texts, drawing conclusions, evaluating and synthesizing information from various sources, as well as doing rhetorical analysis on speeches. Writing sessions will focus on essay development. Learning by doing projects and/or fundamental research on topics of each student’s interests is a component of the language development.  With parent’s consent, student may visit a museum of his/her choice and write a report or an essay about the visit.