I did my master’s while coaching students through IOs, HL Essay planning and Paper 1 commentary, so I’m used to tight deadlines and messy first drafts. If you’ve got texts you “sort of get” but can’t write about cleanly, that’s my lane. I’ll push on thesis, paragraph logic and accurate quoting, and I’m happy to review an essay plan between lessons.

GCSE English tutor based in Florence. I started tutoring while running a teen theatre group, so we do a lot on voice, quotation choice and planning under time pressure. I’ve helped students move from 4/5s into 7/8 territory, especially on unseen poetry and the long creative writing task. I’m practical: we build a bank of go-to sentence structures, then adapt them to any extract. Happy to work online or in cafés around the centre.

I tutor Cambridge IGCSE English Language (0500/0990) and have been working with international-school students for 6 years. We practise Paper 1 reading skills (summary + writer’s effect) and build a reliable structure for directed writing, so you stop losing easy marks on tone and register. I’ll mark timed responses between lessons and we’ll rewrite the weakest paragraph, not the whole thing.