O Professor Patrick é norte-americano nativo e tem mais de vinte e cinco anos de experiência em aulas de conversação, sua especialidade. Suas aulas são particulares e individuais, 100% do tempo em inglês - portanto indicadas para alunos de nível intermediário a avançado – e ministradas em seu endereço na região do Jardim América / Pinheiros. O foco é o desenvolvimento das habilidades do aluno para falar, pronunciar e compreender a língua Inglesa e a cultura norte-americana sob a perspectiva de um “native speaker”. Nas aulas, o ensino da gramática é contextualizado, o vocabulário expandido e o uso de phrasal verbs e idioms são estimulados com práticas de Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension e Writing.
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Imagine having an English class with a real American teacher, just you and the teacher and you having 100% of his attention. The conversation changes from chatting about what you did today to the vacation to Italy you just returned from. The teacher intently listening corrects your pronunciation and your grammar and vocabulary as the conversation proceeds. The teacher interjects an expression and idiom or slang and teaches the meaning, the conversation changes to work, a technical discussion ensues and some new vocabulary is learned in the process a quick lesson on prepositions and the topic again changes to the latest movies or series that is interesting. So far 30 minutes or more of the class has passed without a word of Portuguese spoken. The remainder of the class the student asks for clarification on some grammar questions, a little phrasal verb practice is interjected and finally a funny joke or story is told, a bit of politics or American culture is discussed. The 60-90 minute class concludes with a plan to add some reading of a news article next class with correction in pronunciation and discussion about the topic...