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Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Home Renovations and Improvements

DIY skills are very vital especially when you have a certain budget to adhere to after you consult your nearest Home Depot or Brico and find out that quotation cost and estimations are quite expensive!
With my assistance you could cut cost and get your home or renovations done in your own unique time, pace, style, budget and taste especially in the era of DIY! I could either assist you or take charge...the ball is in your court!

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Location

At student's location: Around Brussels, Belgium
Online via webcam
At student's location: Around Antwerp, Belgium
At student's location: Around Leuven, Belgium
At student's location: Around Charleroi, Belgium

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Age:
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Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level:
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Duration:
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90 minutes
120 minutes
The class is taught in:English, French, Dutch

About Me

Empathy, resiliency, organisation, autonomy, team spirited, result-oriented, diligence, zeal, dynamic character, honesty, punctuality and attention to details are the embodiment of my core personality. Trained with a sharpened philosophical intuition, a business marketing acumen and journalistic mind-set, I represent an interesting choice to create, manage, and assist in attaining prospective goal-oriented vision. I thrive in attaining short and long term goals in tutoring discipline with a creative twist.
My objective is to be a versatile tutor that fosters the learning vision of prospective students with my creative, inspirational and result-oriented tutoring skills. My competencies, which is combined with empathy and enthusiasm instil remarkable productivity. Also, throughout the years, flexible creative versatility has always been an anchor. I extremely yearn to make a student thrive in a dynamic and welcoming atmosphere that bolsters 1-on-1 life long learning goals in English language and more.

Education

I obtained my MSc. in Communication Studies: Journalism and Media in Europe (Sep 2016 - Sep 2017) at Vrije University Brussels (VUB), BSc. in Business Management Marketing (BBM) (Sep 2013 - Jun 2016) at University College Leuven-Limburg (UCLL) and B. A. in Philosophy (Sep 2010 - Sep 2015) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

Experience / Qualifications

With my theoretical and practical experiences in Philosophy (B.A.), Business Management – Marketing (BSc.), Communications, Journalism and Media (MSc.), I am well equipped to contribute to the short and long term goals of any aspiring English students.
While working at Brussels international airport – Zaventem, marketing, communications and events department of both KU Leuven and VUB, my colleagues and supervisors commended my capabilities to go the extra mile with my unique articulations and adaptable conversations when dealing with local customers and non-native English speaking clients from all over the globe. Vital responsibilities and projects has been accomplished autonomously by diverse students ranging from 10-20 years of age on IELTS exams, various content generation, oral proficiency and copy-editing. Two of my students are currently in universities in the EU and surrounding regions.

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Michael is a very enthusiastic teacher who listens to his student's needs.
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Nice teacher. He is willing to communicate.
Michael is a very dynamic person
Very fascinating experience. I learned a lot. Sometimes surprising information about things I was not aware of.
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The aforementioned categories are vital in everyday routine especially for naturally timid and introverted professional aspirant in public speaking, debates, announcements, storytelling, speeches. To reach certain efficiency professionally in terms of intonations, pitch, range, eloquence, fluidity, stress patterns, vocal exercise, flexible volume, uninterrupted flow, suspenseful pause, voice partitioning, etc., even for non-beginners, one needs the right set of assistance...and am excellent at all of the above! Focus is to learn and enhance skills in story-telling smoothness, speech making competences and public speaking proficiency with ease. Beginners and intermediate are welcome...no one should ever relent from learning and acquiring new set of skills or enhancement!
As you acquire a new skill or enhance the proficiency of a new language skill, you will be guided in grammar, vocabulary, conversations, dictions and oral articulations to aide you in communicating better with other English speakers worldwide...conversational dates, outdoor excursions & day-day routine exercise can be requested. Test preparations are inclusive! IELTS, TOEFL, General or Academic!

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