Hello, my name is Paramita Chakraborty and I'm an experienced native English tutor currently living in Switzerland. I have been giving English lessons online with Verbalplanet since 2017. I am currently offering a free initial trial lesson for new students.
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About me - English
I'm a CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) trained English teacher and have been teaching General and Business English for quite some time now. Like most of us, I have had some great teachers. What made them different and stand out was a set of qualities which, I think, make good teachers great. For starters, they were passionate about their job. It may sound cliché, but there really wouldn’t be a dull moment in their company. They’d listen, interact, provide real answers or creative solutions and not be afraid to be questioned. When I became a teacher, I tried to imbibe and emulate these qualities.
I'd be more than happy to share my knowledge and be the English teacher you've been looking for! Hope to hear form you soon!
Qualifications & Experience
Teaching experience
April 2016 –
English teacher, ASC International House, Geneva
March 2016
English teacher, Oxford House College, London
October 2010-December 2015
Private English tutor (all levels), Kelprof, France
September 2007-April 2009
English assistant, Primary and Middle School level, Education Nationale, France
Other professional experience
October 2014-December 2015
Senior PR consultant, OXYGEN, Paris
May 2013-September 2014
International PR consultant, Noir sur Blanc, Paris
April 2012-April 2013
Communication officer, INSERM US14, Paris
Education
2009-2010
Master 1, Linguistics, René Descartes-Sorbonne University, Paris
2005-2007
MA in French, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, India
2002-2005
Diplôme de langue française (French language diploma), Alliance française du Bengale, India
Teaching Approach
In my years of teaching English, I’ve had to come up with creative activities, movie and theatre sessions and even singing classes to keep my students engaged and interested in learning English. I’ve learnt to be patient, to be imaginative and at times a real friend.
Technically speaking, I use the tried and tested "guided discovery" approach in which students are encouraged to learn the rules and practice of a language analytically. Here the students have more inductive capacity and learning becomes lot more fun.
