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Harper
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- ESOL
- English speaking
- English Vocabulary
- Business English
- Accent Reduction-English
Wedding Planner Teaching ESL Through Real Event and Hospitality Language Six Years Guiding One Hundred Adult Learners Toward Polished Confident Workplace Communication Skills
- ESOL
- English speaking
- English Vocabulary
- Business English
- Accent Reduction-English
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About Harper
I built a career planning weddings and events for years before shifting toward teaching, and that hospitality background still shapes almost everything about how I run an ESL lesson today. Six years into teaching now, I've worked with about one hundred adult students, many of them working in hospitality, retail, or customer-facing roles wanting genuinely polished workplace communication skills. My planning background gives me unusually direct insight into exactly what smooth, professional communication actually requires under real pressure and tight timelines. I work particularly well with adult learners in hospitality, service, or client-facing roles, since that's precisely the world I spent years actually working within myself. My teaching style is polished, practical, and genuinely warm, built on real, lived event management experience rather than purely academic language training alone. I have guided numerous adult learners toward confident workplace communication, drawing on genuine hospitality experience rather than generic classroom assumptions about service language. Students consistently tell me the specificity of my scenario-based teaching feels far more useful than generic ESL classes they tried previously elsewhere. I take genuine pride in helping adult learners handle a demanding customer or workplace conversation confidently in English. After six years, I remain genuinely passionate about this polished teaching approach.
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- GCSE
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My years planning weddings and events taught me exactly how much smooth, confident communication matters under real pressure, and that shapes a genuinely practical approach to teaching ESL. Lessons focus heavily on hospitality and workplace language, vendor conversations, client meetings, coordinating logistics, the exact scenarios many of my adult students actually encounter at work. Vocabulary training centres on service, hospitality, and coordination language, genuinely useful words many students need for hospitality work, customer service, or simply confident daily interactions. I run realistic roleplay constantly, practising workplace conversations, handling customer requests, and managing last-minute problems calmly, since these situations come up regularly in real jobs. Grammar gets taught through polite, professional phrasing, since tone and diplomacy matter enormously in workplace and service contexts many of my students navigate daily. Listening practice includes real conversational speech at natural pace, since customers and colleagues rarely speak slowly or clearly for anyone's convenience during a real shift. I teach students to stay calm and diplomatic under pressure, a skill years of live event management taught me matters more than almost anything else. Cultural context around workplace tone and appropriate formality receives real, dedicated attention throughout every single lesson. Confidence-building stays central, since hesitation causes far more real problems than actual vocabulary gaps ever do. Every lesson stays genuinely practical.
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- 5h: £140
- 10h: £280
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