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Business English Lessons, for the gap between knowing the words and being heard. Built for professionals whose English is already good but who still lose the room in a meeting or water down an email until it says less than they meant. Meetings, presentations, negotiations, interviews, the emails that need to land the first time. Lessons are built around the actual situation in front of you, not a fixed syllabus.
General, Business, and Exam English, the full picture of what I teach, in groups, small groups, or one-on-one, from a first-time learner to a postgraduate defending a thesis in their second language. CertTESOL, Trinity College London, 2013, over 10,000 hours of teaching since.
Diagnostic Marking for IELTS, Cambridge, Trinity, and TOEFL, video feedback on your writing or speaking without needing to book a live lesson. Submit whenever it suits you, get a screencast walkthrough back within 24-48 hours identifying the two or three errors actually capping your score, not a generic line-by-line correction.
Free resources
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The free IELTS Speaking Checklist, six things that quietly cap a Band 6 at Band 6, and how to fix each one before test day. Sent straight to your inbox.
Debugging Your Syntax, what systems diagnostics can teach us about language errors, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
The Language of Maritime Law, precision, hedging, and holding your own under live academic cross-examination, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
The Pedagogy of Over-Engineering, a satirical guide to corporate jargon, with a genuinely useful free lesson plan on spotting and fixing it.
Prompting for Fluency, using AI as a rehearsal partner without losing your own voice, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Your Own WRAP, a structured way to handle exam and meeting nerves, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Tactical Vagueness in Negotiation, why being too direct can undermine you at the negotiating table, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Fronting and Inversion, the grammar structures that read as sophistication rather than correctness, with a free downloadable lesson plan for teachers.
Semantic Prosody, the hidden positive or negative charge certain words carry, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Weak Forms and Connected Speech, why native English sounds faster than it is, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
ACE at Work, Attitude, Creation, and Experience under real workplace pressure, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
ACE in Exams, the same framework applied to speaking test performance, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
ACE in Life, on finding meaning in the difficulty of learning itself, with a free guided reflection.
The Definite Article and Country Names, why it’s ‘the Bahamas’ but never ‘Taiwan’, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
True, False, or Not Given, the IELTS Reading trap that has nothing to do with your vocabulary, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Matching Headings, why the right answer never sounds like the paragraph, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Sentence Completion and the Word Limit, the answer that’s correct, exact, and still wrong, with a free downloadable lesson plan.
Tools and books I actually recommend, not an affiliate dump. Spaced repetition apps for vocabulary, the course materials I teach from, and the exam prep reading list, chosen because they work, not because they pay a commission.
The blog, on the actual mechanics of fluency and exam prep, plus the occasional detour into the history of English, why spelling stopped matching pronunciation, what football commentary can teach a C1 learner, that kind of thing.
Getting started
About Ian, background, qualifications, and how I actually teach: lessons built around the situation you’re actually in, not a chapter in a textbook.
Testimonials from past and current students, in their own words.
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