Ana, professore d’inglese a Torino

arding my brief introduction, I would like you to know that I moved to TURIN 2 years ago with my husband who is a Researcher here at POLITECNICO. We moved here along with our 6-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. I being a dentist always wanted to practice Dentistry and so I got myself admitted in UNITO for MASTERS level 1 in the subject ODONTOATRIA PEDIATRICA . Now, when it comes to my experience as an ESL teacher/ babysitter, I've been doing it since I moved here, and since I am mostly busy with studies, Italian language learning, and with kids, I am doing it as a part-time job. Being equally good at English, as any native speaker, I can teach it as a second language to anyone. Currently, I am dealing with one family, and I usually go and teach them 2 days per week. Learning an entirely different language for kids is always a very exciting experience for me and dealing with them, while at the same time, making them comfortable in their respective zones, I always make sure that my student doesnot find me as a teacher , rather a caretaker, so that he/she feels comfortable while playing and learning too and that is why I follow some particular methods of ESL, which I found beneficial for others as well for my own kids.
> They are as follows.
> 1) Division of an hour into activities like :
> a) Phonetics
> b)Vocabulary Building
> c)Basic Idiomatic Expressions learning. ( for e.g: come here, stand up, sit down, do you like it ?)
> d)Story Reading / Story Telling
> e)Flashcards and visual learning .
> These are the few methods that I've been using