1-on-1 30 Mins Public Speaking Tutoring Using Poems

Do you want to prepare a poem for a competition, talent show, or festival? or start to build your public speaking skills and confidence using poems?

This 1:1 class can be adapted, tailored, and personalised to address the specific areas your learner wants/needs to concentrate on.  *EAL, shy, and neuro-diverse learners are very welcome.

I believe that ANYONE can be a strong public speaker with the right training. 

Over my years working as a Teacher, Tutor, Confident Communications Coach, Presenter (TV, Radio, Live, Video, Online), Actress, and Director I have picked up lots of tips, tricks, and techniques that can help ANYONE improve their public speaking skills and confidence ready for any type of public speaking.

Each class will begin with a fun tongue twister warm-up, which helps improve articulation, enunciation, and pronunciation. Then we will explore a piece of poetry. Applying a different public speaking technique each week. This could either be something available in the public domain (at an appropriate level for your learner's age/level of English), or we can work on a specific poem given for a competition, talent show, or festival.

Learners will get regular feedback with tips they can continue to build on both live in class, and often afterward in the notes in the classroom. I will always be actively encouraging learners to ask and answer questions throughout our classes too, so they will be building their more natural public speaking skills, as well as more 'performance' ones.

For learners that respond well to rewards I can offer bespoke pictures on my green screen background of their favorite things (in drawn, or photo form) as rewards for great focus, or if you prefer a virtual sticker system, or even something I send over each week in PDF form (a coloring sheet, certificate with the skill we've worked on, paper 'stickers' they can print out and collect. Depending on your thoughts, I can also offer brain break activities, of coaching them to give their own made-up definition of a nonsense word (like 'What does Rotboe mean?'), answering would you rather questions (like 'Would you rather eat a sandwhich with no bread, or a burger with no bun? Why?', or icebreaker questions (like 'If you could have any animal in the world as a pet what would you choose? Why?'). I am happy to include any or all of these throughout our classes for when a learner has done particularly well, or needs a bit of a pause before re-focusing.



**If you are unable to find a suitable time in my class availability do please reach out, as I can often juggle my filming schedule day to day and week to week**