Online English Tutor Bianca

**Not currently taking new clients**

My interdisciplinary, formative approach to teaching emphasises high standards, low pressure. My experience since 2008 has been mainly with secondary school pupils but also briefly with Year 6 children (2017-2018), meaning I have a full understanding of the transition from primary to secondary school. I have also served as Head of Year 11, and taught secondary English, French, TOK and Global Perspectives in 6 schools to date (3 U.K., 2 NL, 1 FR). Courses taught include:

IBDP: TOK, English A: Language and Literature, English A: Literature, English B
A Level: Classical Civilisation, English Language, English Literature, Critical Thinking (AQA, Edexcel)
American High School Diploma: American Literature
IBMYP: English Language and Literature
IGCSE/GCSE: English Language, English Literature, First Language English, Second Language English, World Literature, Global Perspectives (AQA, CIE)
Key Stage 3 (age 11-14) : English Language, English Literature.

I have also been an examiner since 2011 and have examined a wide variety of texts in relation to this role, including (most recently) A View From The Bridge, Spies, the poetry of Owen Sheers and Carol Ann Duffy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Pride & Prejudice.
In addition, I have experience of privately tutoring undergraduate and postgraduate students (including assistance with dissertations). Texts taught at university level include Carmilla (Le Fanu), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin).

**Not currently taking new clients**

English language (B1+ : first or second language) English literature (any level), TOK/Critical thinking (IBDP/A Level), French (up to and including A Level), Global Perspectives (IGCSE).


Texts taught include:
Undergraduate: Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
IBDP/A Level: A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll's House, The Sound of Waves, The Sorrow of War, the poetry of TS Eliot, John Keats, and Emily Dickinson, Death and the King's Horseman, the works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Jew of Malta, Translations, Wuthering Heights, The Handmaid's Tale, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, A Kestrel for a Knave, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Bell Jar, poetry of Sylvia Plath, Catch-22
IGCSE/GCSE: Of Mice and Men, A Christmas Carol, Love & Relationships (AQA Poetry unit), Hedda Gabler, Things Fall Apart, The Country Wife, the poetry of ee cummings, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Amanda Chong, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Romeo and Juliet, Stoner, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Lord of the Flies, WW1 poetry, short stories of HG Wells
Key Stage 3/MYP: Wonder, A Long Walk To Water, Chinese Cinderella, The Demon Headmaster, Boy, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, A Little Princess, The Thief Lord, The Tempest, Refugee Boy, Across The Barricades, The Hunger Games, the poetry of Alfred Noyes, Simon Armitage, and Imtiaz Dharker

Topics taught include:
Postgraduate: Applied linguistics
Undergraduate: Analysis of multimodal texts; semiotics
IBDP/A Level: Analysis of multimodal texts (films, advertisements, blogs etc), translation, de Saussure's semiotic theories, semantics, pragmatics, language and identity, language and cultural context, graphology, phonology
IGCSE/GCSE: The history of comedy, introduction to linguistic analysis, global issues (possible causes and solutions), the representation of global issues in literature, page to stage
MYP/KS3: Forms of poetry (including haiku), recounts, figurative language, directed writing, language and the environment, debates and speeches on global issues

The teaching and promotion of good spelling, grammar, punctuation, paragraphing, and essay-writing skills are embedded across the age range, with essay-writing taught from age 11. Critical thinking skills and TOK integration are also integrated into lesson planning across the age range, with especial emphasis on this for A Level/IBDP lessons.