Bristol Homestay Tuition

23/12/2025

Useful language if you're spending Christmas with an English family!

12/06/2025

My colleague, Lisa Jayne Wood of Your English Self is inviting you to a safe, friendly space to chat and ask questions about English, mindset, language learning... All questions are welcome!

It's TONIGHT!

🗓️ Date: Thursday 12th June

⏰ Time: 19.00 CET(Madrid) Check your time zone and add it to your calendar

📍Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7418842563?pwd=c3lxYWlKLzBMUUc2T2VtdmVjV1o3Zz09

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Lisa Jayne Wood

10/06/2025

🌞 Ready to finally feel confident in English? Let’s chat! 🇬🇧

From July 2025, I’ve got a few places available for my unique one-to-one English coaching courses here in my Bristol home. 🌉

Whether you’re preparing for a new job, international meetings, or just want to stop panicking when native speakers start talking fast — this course is for you.

🧑‍🏫 What’s included:
✔️ Personalised, one-to-one coaching
✔️ Structured lessons + relaxed conversation practice
✔️ Constant, gentle correction
✔️ Homemade meals where the learning continues over the table
✔️ Full immersion in real English 🇬🇧

💬 Not sure if it’s the right fit? Let’s talk first.
I offer a free 30-minute discovery call to answer your questions and understand your goals.

📅 Book your chat here 👉 www.bristolhomestaytuition.co.uk/contact
Or just message me directly.

I’ve helped students from Italy, Germany, Spain and beyond feel more fluent, more natural, and more like themselves in English. My courses are also great for teachers who want to refresh their English skills!

Let’s make Summer 2025 the season you finally speak English with confidence. 🌿

📩 Helping adults build confidence in English through immersion, conversation, and connection.

04/01/2024

Are you looking forward to this year’s adventures in English?

I certainly am! January 2024, is starting with a bang for me! I am hosting and teaching from the first month of the year.

January
🐏👩🏼🎓 My first student works in the fragrance and flavour sector in human resources. She lives in Lisbon, Portugal but she’s actually French. I’m looking forward to helping her become comfortable with her English listening and speaking skills.

March
👩🏼🎓 Next I will work with a German-speaking Belarusian who is a project sales manager for a German food-processing equipment producer. She knows that the international language for her business is English and wants to speak and understand English better.

April
👩🏼🎓 In May I will host a Swiss student from near Zurich. She’s a psychologist who assesses new recruits for businesses. Her level of English is quite high but she wants to boost her listening and speaking skills.

May
👨🏼🎓 I will be hosting and teaching a French speaker from Paris. He’s a cyber-security risk analyst and often finds himself working with other analysts from around the world. They use English to communicate among themselves. He needs to feel more confident with his listening, speaking and reading skills.

💪🏻WHAT DO ALL THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON? They all want to get more fluent and comfortable with UNDERSTANDING and SPEAKING English. They understand that the most effective way to accelerate these skills is to fully immerse themselves in the language; to find a coach who can create a personalised course for them; to ‘live the language’ while eating delicious, home-made food and exploring the lively city of Bristol.

🎁EXTRA OPPORTUNITY! Three of my clients will work as a volunteer in a local charity shop. I offer this when a student books a course of three or more weeks. This is an excellent way to speak to a wide range of people, both native and non-native English speakers. It’s also a great way to see how a charity shop works.

If you want to expand your work opportunities and English horizons in 2024, contact me to book your intensive, one-to-one English coaching course in Bristol. I’m taking bookings from June 2024. 🎉🥳🎆

30/10/2023

Are you thinking about improving your English next year? Read this article to find out how you can rapidly boost your confidence in listening and speaking English with an intensive, full-immersion English course with me.

05/10/2023

05/10/2023

I've had a busy summer and now the school is closed until January 2024. My full immersion, intensive, one-to-one English coaching courses are the BEST way to improve your English, REALLY FAST! Contact me for your course in 2024 if you want to speak English with confidence, fluency and have a great time! I am taking bookings from March 2024.

24/05/2023

I am currently doing a business coaching course, Flourishing Foundations, run by Rachael Roberts. I am learning some good business habits and top tips. One of the outcomes of this course has to make me count up the actual HOURS of contact time that a student gets during their course I offer. 👍

My package of intensive, full-immersion, one-to-one English coaching which includes meals, accommodation and excursions actually comes to MORE English exposure than a course of one hour of lessons per week for one year. This constant interaction with me in English is also really meaningful and communicative. 🗣

I offer courses of 15 or 20 hours per week. I never offer more than that, as I know it’s exhausting for the student, and for me! I usually recommend a period of at least two weeks, as one week is really not enough time invested to get a solid result. 💪

A course of 15 hours per week includes three hours of one-to-one teaching in the mornings. After the class, we have lunch, which is approximately another one hour of contact time. The evening meal is about two hours of interaction. That is around six hours per day with me which makes a total of 30 hours of concentrated English per week, Monday to Friday. At the weekend or one evening, we go for an excursion, possibly to a live concert 🎷, to another city 🏙 or to a local landmark 🏰. This is usually a MINIMUM of four hours. There are two evening meals at the weekend, which makes eight hours of contact time at the weekend (we have Sunday free as a break from each other until the evening meal). So far, one week and one weekend comes to 38 hours. The second week of provides a further 30 hours, so grand total for the two week course is 68 HOURS OF CONTACT TIME. That is more than spending one hour per week for 52 weeks – assuming you had an English class every week of the year, which is extremely unlikely! 😮

No wonder I and my student find it so intensive! My method offers a huge QUANTITY of English tuition time. What is more, it is QUALITY English contact time. My student wants to speak and to communicate for genuine communicative reasons, rather than just practising asking questions or sentences with modal verbs, for example. The student interacts and experiences English as it is heard and spoken in reality, not as speaking and listening exercises in course books. 👌

Contact me now if you want to accelerate your English fast while having fun with me! If you know someone who would benefit from this type of intensive English course, please tell them about my method. I still have some availability for summer 2023.

11/04/2023

This is a survey for my ex-students. If you have experienced one of my intensive, one-to-one English courses, please could you answer these questions for me. I would be very grateful! ✍🏼🙏🏼

https://forms.gle/x3WUmwUzs5GbjX3S9

09/03/2023

My first student this year. D. came for one week in late February to refresh her English. She's the deputy consul for France in Brussels. Her level of was high on arrival but she had some fossilised errors which we worked on together. We also went to see a live concert of women singer-songwriters and then had a delicious Lebanese meal in a local restaurant. D. explored the city of Bristol and enjoyed the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, St Nicholas Market and the Clifton Suspension Bristol in Clifton Village. We studied word order in English sentences; improved her pronunciation, especially word and sentence stress; she collected her own vocabulary and wrote a delightful story, called 'The Unexpected Crayfish' using all of her words. I suggested a few tweaks, such as replacing her use of the verb 'take' with 'get' to make her sound much more 'English', except with 'TAKE a photo', of course! We worked hard but we had some fun too, as you can see.😊