English Crash Course for essay-writing, personal statements (with focus on Oxbridge) and test prep for IELTS, Cambridge, etc.

From 42.79 $ /h

A high-level English writing crash course, especially focused on creating well-rounded essays and other similar texts that need to be written for A level exams, proficiency tests such as IELTS and Cambridge or university application personal statements. Can additionally give support for Oxbridge and other Top 10 university personal statements due to my own experience!

Location

Online from United Kingdom

About Me

Hi!
I‘m a 1st year PhD student at The Francis Crick Institute in London, previously having graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford and an MSc from Imperial College London - both in biomedical sciences. My PhD research is focused on immunology and cancer, a field which I've also pursued in a range of labs in the UK and abroad.

I've been tutoring since high school, gradually moving from secondary school science and English lessons to tutoring undergraduate and postgraduate students, and English as a foreign language. For several years I've now also worked with an agency for academic applications tutoring - helping people of all age ranges successfully apply to the university or job of their dreams. Through this experience, I have developed a strong skillset in communicating complex ideas, adapting teaching strategies to each individual student, inciting motivation for science, and text editing anything from a personal statement to a master's dissertation.

I'm a German and English native speaker, but can communicate in Dutch if necessary!

I love learning and have always done my best to pass this on to any person I work with - by whichever strategy is necessary to get through to them.

Please don‘t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about me, my qualifications, my teaching style, or my availabilities!

Education

International German Abitur - 1.0
University of Oxford - BA in Biomedical Sciences
Imperial College London - MSc in Genes, Drugs, and Stem Cells

Currently pursuing my PhD in immunology and cancer research!

Experience / Qualifications

> 7 years of tutoring experience - Maths, Biology, English, applications counseling
MSc in Biomedical Sciences and English native speaker

Age

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

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Advanced

Duration

30 minutes

45 minutes

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The class is taught in

English

German

Dutch

Skills

Essay writing

Writing

Reviews

Availability of a typical week

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New York

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UK University Applications (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, etc.)

42.79 $ /h

Oxford and Cambridge are the UK’s most elite universities and, especially for a European student, far easier to reach with the proper support. This is what I am here to provide: help writing an ideal personal statement fit for a future Oxbridge offer holder, aid with UCAS, interview practice and advice on any possible question you could have. As a European Oxford student myself, I know the challenges and hardships of an Oxbridge application and aim to make the entire process easier for you. This will not only better your chances of securing an offer, but also make this already stressful time a bit less confusing.

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My past & present clients have included: professionals from all four major EU institutions, the Belgian government, the UNHCR various NGOs, authors, novelists, journalists, engineers, as well as a variety of other professions in addition to traditional students.

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Thank you

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Learn conversation, especially for foreign students
Preparing for exams and reviewing daily lessons
Read stories and improve the arts of recitation
Practice writing, spelling and drawing letters correctly
Introduce the student to himself fluently and confidently
Learning to recite poetry

I am a native Arabic speaker from Lebanon living in Saudi Arabia with years of experience teaching beginners. I use a variety of methods to make learning Arabic easy and enjoyable,
Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to improve your Arabic skills, I will customize the lessons to your level. I'll focus on the basics of Arabic grammar, vocabulary, and conversation, so you can start speaking Arabic with confidence

Don't wait any longer to start learning Arabic. Contact me today to schedule your first lesson.

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In my day job, I also work on projects of all sizes and complexities. A final project is essentially a small one and goes through all the steps I also take in my day job. Thanks to my knowledge and experience from the professional world, supplemented by years of experience mentoring students, I'm definitely the right person to help you with your final project.

--- Location: online / at the student's home / library (Antwerp) ---

See you soon!
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A knowledgeable lawyer and legal services provider

Hello, dear customer. Meet your legal professional. I'm currently a practicing attorney, skilled writer, and online researcher who delivers exactly what I promise. The legal profession, research, and writing have been my passions since the early years of my legal career, and through learning and experience, I have sufficiently honed my skills in these areas. In addition, I am currently pursuing my P.hd, a degree that I believe is an added advantage to my expertise. Do not hesitate to entrust me with your task and expect the best from my services. Thank you in advance, and stay safe.
In this lesson I will guide you through the process of conducting legal research and writing legal documents.

- Legal Research: The tutor will explain how to conduct legal research, which is a critical skill for anyone involved in the legal field. This includes understanding how to use legal databases, how to find and interpret statutes, regulations, and case law, and how to stay updated with recent legal developments. The tutor will also cover how to analyze legal problems and apply the law to specific scenarios.

- Legal Writing: The tutor will then move on to legal writing, another essential skill for legal professionals. This involves learning how to write various legal documents such as briefs, memos, contracts, and legal opinions. The tutor will provide tips on how to write clearly and persuasively, how to structure your arguments, and how to cite legal authorities correctly.

- Practical Exercises: Throughout the lesson, the tutor will provide practical exercises to help you apply what you've learned. This might involve researching a particular legal issue or drafting a legal document.
- Feedback and Improvement: The tutor will provide feedback on your work, helping you to improve your legal research and writing skills. They will point out any areas of weakness and provide suggestions for improvement.

This lesson is designed for anyone interested in law, whether you're a law student, a legal professional looking to brush up on your skills, or someone considering a career in law. It provides a solid foundation in legal research and writing, two of the most important skills for any legal professional.

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Improve your skills to better manage your written communication: your objectives in terms of written communication may be diverse and the objective of these sessions is precisely to support you in better achieving them. So, how can we send a clear message, be impactful, create a difference and make an impact?

➤ Whether your objective is personal or professional, written communication is an activity based on techniques, tools, a method and know-how, reflecting the author's involvement in his writing.

➤ Relevant and successful written communication must always be effective and efficient, with clear, simple and impactful messages, creating a match between the message received and the message sent. Coherence between form and content.

➤ So, how can you convince and be impactful, challenge and leave an impression, enhance your content, address your interlocutors relevantly and optimize the quality & clarity of your message? It is precisely a question of going through, applying and deploying practical and effective techniques, taking care of both substance and form, all in a professional or personal context. For this, there are very specific techniques.

➤ Thus, mastered, the practical method allows, through a set of modules supporting pragmatic & concrete techniques, to improve one's written communication.

➤ To achieve your objective and overcome the blockages encountered through concrete techniques & a targeted methodology, it is a question of:
✓decode and use practical communication tools from great authors
✓highlight your text and enhance it to arouse interest
✓create consistency between the message sent and the message received
✓adopt effective, simple, fair and engaging language
✓use sentences, phrases and expressions to be precise, simple, effective & engaging
✓write proactively and express/transmit your ideas/message clearly
✓propose a constructive solution to problems, while drawing on your own relational skills
✓enhance your potential for expression and creativity
✓connect your communication objectives (project, institution, values, ideas, demands, etc.) with the form of your expression
✓practical techniques to encourage reader engagement
✓Strengthen the structure of your communication and develop a convincing argument in order to sell your ideas and projects
✓better prepare your message and arguments; anticipating objections and delicate situations; by preparing and structuring an attractive and convincing presentation framework; by adequately managing difficult situations
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➤ In short, each session combines adapted techniques & practical exercises, so that you can put them into practice immediately, and from the first session.

THE TRAINER
➤ With training from Grande Ecole post-preparatory classes & Ivy League university in the United States, our teacher trainer has specialized and has worked for more than 18 years in the field, in Europe and North America, in renowned international public and private establishments, regularly speaking in forums and conferences, and also offering personalized INDIVIDUAL support, with pedagogy and careful methodology as the watchwords.

➤ PLACE, TIMETABLE, PRICES
✓ Locations: Geneva-Lausanne-Fribourg-Zurich-Neuchâtel-Lugano-Basel-Neuchâtel-Berne-Lucerne-Brussels-Luxembourg-Paris-Lyon. But currently, these sessions continue to be offered by videoconference in the current context and in accordance with general demand which is almost unanimous on this subject.

✓ Indeed, apart from the classic advantages of videoconferencing (time saving related to travel & their unforeseen events, eco-responsibility, increased schedule flexibility, etc.), the quality of the session & the interaction remain identical. In addition, the entire exchange, notes and recommendations are immediately transcribed on the dedicated chat.

✓ To support us among ourselves & to be pleasant to you in this sustainable / particular period and in a spirit of solidarity, the fees are temporarily reduced and will not increase after the start of our sessions.

✓ Languages: French/English.

✓ The progress following these private sessions is perceptible from 2 sessions (*2024 study).

✓ As other people do regularly, you can also please your loved ones by offering gift vouchers available all year round.

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🎯 Do you dream of reciting the Quran exactly as it was revealed to the heart of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, with precise Tajwid and a humble heart?

Or would you like to memorize it step by step while reflecting on and understanding its verses?

In this blessed course, you will experience a fully interactive journey, no matter your level, whether you are:

🔶 A complete beginner in memorization or reading from the Mushaf
🔶 Seeking to perfect your memorization and correct your recitation
🔶 Wanting to complete a full and flawless Khatma from Surah Al-Fatiha to the end of the thirtieth Juz
🔶 Or aiming to obtain an Ijaza in the Quran

✨ You are in the right place to achieve this dream!

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📌 "Because every seeker has their own path..."

⭐ An individual plan is designed with three main programs, tailored to your age, level, and goals:

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1️⃣ Comprehensive Program

Designed for students who wish to study the four fundamental areas to become proficient readers of the Book of Allah:
✔️ Perfect memorization → Ḥifẓ
✔️ Recitation → Tilāwah
✔️ Revision → Murājaʿah
✔️ Tajwid rules → Aḥkām

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2️⃣ “Baraem Al-Iman” Program (for children aged 4 to 12)

Because their hearts are purer... and their minds are more receptive to the Word of Allah.

This program is designed with educational games and interactive exercises to make learning Arabic and the Quran fun and motivating.

📖 We start with your child from the very first letter and build a lasting love for the Book of Allah through:
✅ Correct reading of the verses
✅ Gradual memorization of the verses (starting from Surah Al-Fatiha, then Juz ‘Amma)
✅ Basic Tajwid rules in a simple and enjoyable way

✨ Program Highlights:

Short sessions (30 – 45 minutes), suitable for the child’s concentration or according to their level and parental preference

Use of colorful cards, educational animations, and achievement certificates

Progress reports after each session for parents

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3️⃣ Flexible Program

Designed for students who want to study only one or two areas (such as memorization / recitation / revision / Tajwid),

or wish to learn the basics of reading Arabic that enable correct reading of the Mushaf step by step, using various curricula such as:
📖 Fath Al-Rahman – Nour Al-Bayan
📖 Al-Qaidah An-Nouraniyah / Al-Madaniyah

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⭐ Unique Features ⭐

✅ Direct correction by a qualified, accredited teacher with a high-chain Ijaza in Quran memorization
🗣️ Reading with correct and precise Tajwid – practical application of rules during recitation + in-depth theoretical study of Tajwid books
🔁 Smart revision – consolidate your memorization through a regular, personalized review plan based on spaced repetition
📖 Explanation, interpretation, and reflection on the meanings of Quranic verses
🎧 Careful listening – vocal exercises to refine articulation points and letter characteristics following proficient reciters
🌿 A spiritual, calm, and motivating learning environment

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💡 The Quran is not just words you repeat... but a light that nurtures your soul and a weapon to face your world.

🚀 Do not postpone your start!
Every letter you memorize today... will weigh in your scale tomorrow ⚖️

🌟 Book your first lesson now and start your journey with the Book of Allah — with correct Tajwid, solid memorization, and deep understanding.
Because memorizing the Quran is not a burden... it is an honor, serenity, and a cause of elevation in both worlds.

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Unlock Your Full Potential in the IB Program!

Are you struggling with your Internal Assessment (IA) or Extended Essay (EE)? I’m here to guide you every step of the way! With personalized support tailored just for you, I’ll help you refine your topic, develop a strong research question, and structure your work to meet IB standards. Let's work together to ensure you achieve the best possible results!

Contact me today and take the first step toward academic success!

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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION (IN BRIEF):
➤Unleash your writing skills and finally realize your writing project!
Novels, short stories, life stories, theses, songs or simple texts: these workshops help you overcome your blocks and transform your ideas into vivid and inspiring stories.

➤ Together, we will work to:
-Overcome your fear of the blank page and awaken your creativity
-Develop style, vocabulary, coherence and authenticity
-Creating characters, settings, and captivating storylines
-Explore your imagination, your emotions, and your flaws to turn them into a strength
-Alternating theory and practice with concrete exercises and personalized feedback

➤ Proofreading, correction, optimization of your texts possible.
➤Objective: to write with pleasure, progress faster and bring your project to completion.

➤Let yourself be guided: your dream of writing can become a reality.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
➤Exploring and sharing the pleasure of words, building the stories that inhabit you, developing your expression, deepening your creativity, exploring contemporary writing, proposing a novel, short stories, a life story, an (auto)biography, a fiction, an essay, song lyrics, various texts or simply a report, a thesis, a report for professional or academic purposes... these are among the objectives of these workshops to deepen or initiate writing and realize one's aspirations by prioritizing the pleasure of writing based on elements of personalized pedagogy.

➤Overcome your fears and unlock creative inspiration to finally complete your project.

Let yourself be guided and finally realize your dream of writing.
➤ Overcome your fears
➤ Discover the secret to producing high-quality writing that's 100% enjoyable and 0% writer's block.
➤ Awaken this writer's flame that has been dormant in you for a long time
➤ Build unwavering legitimacy and overcome the fear of failure, lack of time and procrastination that keep you from moving forward.

In short, overcome your fear of writing. Isn't it frustrating to be consumed by the desire to write your project and yet unable to do so? Break down that insurmountable wall that's holding you back.

This involves combining improvements in form with refinements in content. For example, concrete techniques for starting your text and overcoming writer's block, feedback/suggestions on your texts, writing and style exercises based on a prompt, a series of precise/pragmatic recommendations and their implementation.

That is why, if your manuscript is stuck and you don't know how to start or continue it, if you have all the ideas but don't know what form they should take, if you want to save time in the creative process: let's build the architecture of your story together.

Learning objectives include:
• Discover writing, build confidence, let your own literary voice/path emerge, and unleash your imagination
• Studying and constructing a text, song lyrics...
• Calmly refine the style and create consistency between form and content
• Research and develop your vocabulary
• Acquire techniques and know-how to convey your message both clearly and simply
• Differentiate between writing for oneself and writing for others
• Explore your creativity and develop your expression
• To construct a complete story by creating characters, settings, lively scenes...
• Acquire and master practical writing tools, always with a focus on simplicity/simplification and efficiency (both in content and form)
• Discover contemporary writing and diversify your practice
• Acquire narrative techniques to engage in long stories

So, start, resume or finish a piece of writing you have dreamed of for a long time if you want to write but don't know where to start; if you have a story but don't know how to tell it; if you love to write but have lost your inspiration; if you have a manuscript buried in a drawer and you are afraid of failing.

To achieve this, the first step is to unleash your writing and let go: strengthen your imagination, explore your inspiration, and cultivate your originality. Next, turn your weaknesses into a driving force for writing by exploring your wounds to better utilize them and adopt an effective writing method. Finally, master writing techniques and bring characters to life while crafting captivating stories, controlling pacing, and developing suspenseful plots.

All this by combining theory and practical/concrete applications: writing assignments based on exercises and then within the framework of your project.

During the sessions, you will be guided in your writing project. The trainer will support you in your written communication and offer tools, while helping you to work on and/or optimize your style and imagination.

Proofreading, revising, correcting and formatting articles, theses, etc.: these options are also possible.

Furthermore, these sessions allow one to improve one's written communication and to study the different methods to achieve this (email, letter, report, presentation...), both in terms of content and form.

➤ THE TRAINER - TEACHER CONSULTANT
A graduate of a prestigious French Grande École and an Ivy League university in the United States, he combines academic rigor with modern teaching methods. With over 18 years of experience in Europe and North America, he has taught at prestigious international institutions (both public and private), and regularly speaks in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Canada, as well as at various forums and conferences.

A recognized specialist, he offers personalized and accessible support based on active listening, a proven methodology, and tailored teaching methods. Whether through one-on-one sessions, workshops, or group training, his approach combines customization, efficiency, and professionalism for rapid, visible results.

➤ LOCATIONS, TIMES

✓ Areas of intervention:
-Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, Zurich, Neuchâtel, Lugano, Basel, Bern, Lucerne)
-Belgium (Brussels, Antwerp, Charleroi, Liège)
-Luxembourg
-On request: France (Paris, Lyon) and Canada (Montreal)

✓ Currently: sessions are primarily conducted via videoconference – a format favored by almost all participants, as it combines the same high-quality interaction with great organizational flexibility. All content, notes, and recommendations are provided directly through the dedicated chat. Advantages: time savings (no travel), flexible scheduling, comfort, and eco-responsibility.

✓ Languages: French / English.

✓ Results: noticeable progress from 2 sessions (2025 study).

✓ Special offers: gift vouchers available all year round – an original and useful way to please your loved ones.

✓ Schedules to be defined together, adjusting as best as possible to your constraints.

✓ 100% tailor-made program, adapted to each need.

✓ Why choose this training?
-Because you benefit from international expertise at the service of your objectives.
-Because each session is personalized and you will leave with concrete tools.
-Because the approach is not theoretical: it is lively, interactive and results-oriented.
-Because you benefit from a motivating, supportive and stimulating environment, which promotes confidence and rapid progress.
-Because in just a few sessions, you will already notice a tangible difference.

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My name is Firas, and I am an Arabic language teacher with over 12 years of experience, teaching both native and non-native speakers. I have taught students from diverse nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

I would be happy to be your learning partner and help you:
1️⃣ Speak Arabic with confidence and accuracy
2️⃣ Improve pronunciation and expand your vocabulary
3️⃣ Understand grammar in a clear and simplified way
4️⃣ Develop your listening, reading, and writing skills
5️⃣ Use Arabic in daily life, for study, or for work

I always use an interactive teaching approach tailored to each student’s level and goals, and I create personalized study plans to help you progress steadily.

My lessons are suitable for complete beginners, non-native speakers, students who want to improve conversation skills, and anyone learning Arabic for study, work, or travel.

If you are serious about learning Arabic and are looking for a patient and experienced teacher, I would be delighted to guide you on this enjoyable learning journey.
You are all very welcome.