One to one Lessons - 10 or 15 or 25 lessons per week

Personal training

A personal trainer, in all walks of life, motivates a client by setting goals and providing feedback. In the same way your one-to-one tutors at St. Clare’s, Oxford help you to make the maximum English Language progress in the shortest possible time.

Focussing on your specific language needs

If you have just a week or two to spare, our one-to-one lessons allow you to focus directly on your personal English language development. Over the past year, for example, we have built the confidence and improved the performance of individuals from across the world and supported their professional, academic and personal language needs as follows:

1. Professional language needs for business, finance, education, medicine, law
  • the language and strategies for good presentations and negotiations
  • cross-cultural sensitivity and awareness
  • drafting and re-drafting articles for professional journals
Recent trainees: a senior academic (the Netherlands), CEO media company (South Korea), legal adviser (Brazil)
2. Academic language needs for students, undergraduates and post-graduates
  • note-taking and report writing skills
  • presentations for seminars
  • SATs: academic reasoning training
  • linguistic support for dissertations

Recent trainees: postgraduate student (United Arab Emirates), pre-Masters student (China)

3. Personal language needs for confidence, examinations, travel and leisure
  • voice training: projection, intonation & stress, accent reduction
  • support for ‘false beginners’ who have a mis-match of language skills reading, writing, listening and speaking
  • tips and practice for specific examinations – IELTS, Cambridge Exams, Business English Certificates (BEC)
Recent trainees: accountant (Qatar), retired businessman (Japan), fashion buyer (South Korea), property developer (Saudi Arabia), gap year student (Germany).

Our one-to-one tutors

St. Clare’s, Oxford has a wide panel of tutors with English Language and life skills. You can rest assured that the Director of Studies matches their expertise to your stated requirements.

The benefits for you:

✔ maximum progress in the shortest possible time

✔ a boost to your confidence and performance in your chosen field