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- English
- Creative writing
- English Literature
- Essay Writing
- French literature
- University Entrance
Cambridge English student offering online teaching in English/creative writing, essay skills, Oxbridge Admissions
- English
- Creative writing
- English Literature
- Essay Writing
- French literature
- University Entrance
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About Cecily
I'm a current student doing an English degree at Cambridge.
I'm a high-achieving student - despite having been to comprehensive state schools and receiving no formal outside tutoring myself, I gained nine GCSEs at A-star grades (including maths, English language and triple science), as well as one GCSE at A and one at B grade. Following on from this, I achieved A-starAAA at A level in English, history, French and classical civilisations and have gone on from this to achieve grades near the top of my cohort at Cambridge.
I have experience in tutoring and working with children and young people, as I took a year out between school and university which I spent working as an au pair to a family in Paris with three children aged between 6 and 11. I helped the kids with their homework, revising for exams and memorising content for tests - according to the oldest child, who I tutored through a successful 11+ examination, I am 'a really good teacher' and 'much more fun' than she was used to.
I also do a lot of children's work and teaching on a voluntary basis, including mentoring secondary school pupils through the sixth form application process, tutoring with student-led charity Schoolsconnect, and acting as a kids' work group leader at the New Wine United conference 2018.
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About the lesson
- Primary
- Secondary
- SPM
- +7
levels :
Primary
Secondary
SPM
Form 6
STPM
Adult education
Bachelor
Masters
Diploma
Doctorate
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
I want to teach the way you learn, and am willing to be as inventive and creative as you are to figure out a teaching method tailored to suit you as an individual, and your learning style - hopefully we can have some fun doing it, too!
As an English student, I am obviously most qualified to tutor students in English from a literary standpoint, as well as teaching English at pre-GCSE levels, comprehension for SATs or 11+, and developing pupils' creative writing skills (I am a student journalist, poet and occasional short-story writer/essayist).
As a Cambridge student, I'm also well-placed to help with prep for the Oxbridge admissions process - prep for the ELAT, advice on personal statements, and interview-practice with insider knowledge (I know what it's like to be an applicant because I was one not that long ago, and I've now seen the other side of it, having chatted to the academics who interviewed me about what the admissions process is like).
I am fluent in French, and able to teach the rudiments and practice communication skills and oral techniques with pupils in a conversational setting, as well as helping with grammar and writing accuracy.
I can also help with EPQs and other kinds of extended projects or essays, and help developing critical writing and essay skills, sharing the skills which I am being taught now at undergraduate level, and adapting and modifying them to help the academic styles of my pupils.
I feel particularly confident in providing English Literature A level help, especially with the WJEC Eduqas exam board, as I only took these exams two years ago, and dropped less than ten marks in both the unseen and drama papers. I can help especially with coursework, as I achieved full marks for that part of the A level, and can help with finding resources and research skills as well as helping pupils to develop both the style and the substance required for this kind of extended essay. I am confident here because the rubric for these exams hasn't changed since I took them, and I am familiar with the assessment objectives and how to write in the way examiners are looking for.
As a student who has chosen to specialise in medieval literature, I am particularly well-placed to help students studying Middle English texts, for example those studying Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at A-Level.
I am also highly familiar with the critical base around Shakespeare (Hamlet, especially), The Duchess of Malfi, A Streetcar Named Desire, Atonement (by Ian McEwan), The Great Gatsby, and the peotry of Christina Rossetti, Philip Larkin, and Carol Ann Duffy. My degree involves a high level of adapting to unknown or unfamiliar texts quickly, so I am by no means limited to these texts! They just happen to be ones I know especially well.
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Rates
Rate
- S$26
Pack rates
- 5h: S$130
- 10h: S$260
online
- S$26/h
Details
For Creative writing/essay skills/French conversation/English tutoring my fee is £15
For Cambridge/Oxbridge admissions help, interview skills, personal statement help, ELAT prep etc., the fee is £20
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