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Ella
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- English
- English speaking
- English Vocabulary
- Business English
- Accent Reduction - English
Interior Designer Teaching ESL Through Space Description and Everyday Home Vocabulary Fourteen Years Guiding Three Hundred Fifty Adult Learners Toward Precise Descriptive Confidence
- English
- English speaking
- English Vocabulary
- Business English
- Accent Reduction - English
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About Ella
I built a career in interior design for years before shifting toward teaching, and that precise, spatial background still shapes almost everything about how I run an ESL lesson today. Fourteen years into teaching now, I've worked with about three hundred fifty adult students, many of them detail-oriented professionals or simply adults who find abstract classroom material genuinely uninspiring to sit through. My design background gives me a naturally precise, visual teaching style, treating vocabulary and grammar a bit like organizing a space, thoughtfully and with real intention behind every choice. I connect particularly well with adult learners who respond to visual, structured learning rather than dry theory disconnected from anything tangible or genuinely practical. My teaching style is precise, warm, and genuinely detail-oriented, built on the belief that careful, specific language reflects careful, specific thinking more broadly in life. I take genuine pride in watching a student confidently describe their own home or fill out a household form entirely in English for the first time. Many students tell me they finally understand prepositions and spatial description in a way generic classes never quite managed to properly convey. My approach treats language as something to be arranged thoughtfully, not just memorized. After fourteen years, I remain genuinely passionate about this precise teaching approach.
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- Compulsory School
- Secondary School
- Adult Education
- +14
levels :
Compulsory School
Secondary School
Adult Education
Master
Doctorate
Pre-School
A1
A2
B1
B2
C1
C2
Elementary
Intermediate
Advanced
Professional
Children
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
My design career shapes an entirely spatial, descriptive approach to ESL teaching, since I genuinely believe describing a physical space precisely builds exactly the kind of detailed vocabulary many adult learners otherwise lack. Lessons often start with a room, a photo, a layout, describing it together in real detail, since spatial description naturally requires precise prepositions and adjectives many learners genuinely struggle with elsewhere. Vocabulary grows around home, furniture, and spatial relationships, genuinely useful, practical words for describing where things are and how spaces function in daily life. Grammar gets taught through comparison and spatial description, prepositions especially, since these structures come up constantly and naturally when discussing layout, placement, and everyday household matters. I encourage students to describe their own home or apartment in detail, building genuine, personal speaking practice tied to something they can visualize clearly and easily. Listening practice sometimes uses home renovation shows and design content, exposing students to natural English wrapped around genuinely engaging, visual material. I keep lessons visual and precise, closer to a design consultation than a formal classroom lesson, since that atmosphere genuinely helps detail-oriented students stay engaged throughout. Writing practice includes describing spaces or filling out simple household forms, applying new vocabulary in a genuinely practical way. Every lesson leaves students with precise, useful language.
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- US$33
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- 5h: US$165
- 10h: US$330
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The first free lesson with Ella will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
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