Bespoke English for professionals and independent learners
What I do:
I design and deliver individually tailored English lessons for business people, professionals, and private adult learners. Lessons focus on General English, Business English, or specific areas such as writing, grammar, speaking, or pronunciation. Each programme is customised to your goals, pace, and level.
Location:
online via Zoom, with flexible scheduling to suit your needs.
Who can benefit
Professionals in industry sectors such as banking, finance, insurance, engineering, computing, transport, sales, or healthcare
Private adult learners seeking to consolidate language skills, improve writing, or practise spoken English in real-life contexts
Tailored lessons
I assess each learner’s level and conduct a needs review before starting. This ensures your lessons focus on your personal or professional goals, with clear learning aims and ongoing review of progress.
Learning approach
Using a mix of course materials or bespoke content, lessons are interactive, practical, and engaging. Activities may include role-play, discussion, writing tasks, and pronunciation practice, with cultural insights integrated where relevant.
Bespoke English language training: speaking, listening, reading, writing, culture
Case studies
Individual learner, insurance sector
Client needs: Improve conversational English and specialist vocabulary for international meetings.
Solution: Focused exercises on linking, pacing, word emphasis, and speaking practice, supported with recordings for review.
Duration: 2 × 1h sessions weekly over 15 weeks
Outcome: Learner successfully improved fluency and confidence in professional interactions.
Individual learner, banking sector
Client needs: Improve conversational English and grammar for correct speaking in professional interactions.
Solution: Practised all skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading using the New Headway book. Focused on speaking practice based on the student's interests, and grammar consolidation, which included narrative tenses, future forms, conditionals, verb patterns, and phrasal verbs.
Duration: 2 × 1h sessions weekly over 1 year.
Outcome: Learner successfully improved grammar and fluency.
Individual learner, school student preparing for university entrance
Client needs: Prepare for the Cambridge Advanced English exam.
Solution: Used CAE exam book to practice writing, speaking, listening comprehension, and build vocabulary and grammar.
Duration: 2 × 1h sessions weekly for 1 year during term time.
Outcome: Learner successfully completed the CAE exam.
Note: The case studies are anonymised for confidentiality.
What students say:
“Stephan managed to keep me connected to the language and I continue practicing almost daily following his methods and recommendations. He will push you to take the next step to progress. He uses different methods in our lessons like games, films, stories, situations from real-life, which gave me a lot of opportunity to talk."
Eritson, Student, Portugal
"I really enjoyed the lessons and Stephan is a great teacher, and I got much opportunity practicing English in class. I recommend him 100%. He helped me improve my English."
Danilo, Student, Portugal