To tell you a little bit about myself, I grew in an Italian speaking household. I learnt Italian at home, and English at school, with friends etc. Then later, I decided to learn both Spanish and Portuguese, still to this day, I always try to improve my abilities in them.
So far in my experience tutoring, I've had roughly a dozen students - a lot of them were Italian which is particularly useful...
To tell you a little bit about myself, I grew in an Italian speaking household. I learnt Italian at home, and English at school, with friends etc. Then later, I decided to learn both Spanish and Portuguese, still to this day, I always try to improve my abilities in them.
So far in my experience tutoring, I've had roughly a dozen students - a lot of them were Italian which is particularly useful because it's easy for me to translate most words for them with ease. Nevertheless, it is of course not an essential thing. Other students I've helped benefited a lot with help in phonetics, conversation help, learning vocab, understanding grammar and much else.
In terms of how we structure lessons depends on what the student's requirements are. I tend to take an open approach letting the student specify what they think would help them more.
For instance, this can be a typical lesson:
-introduction to the lesson (10 min)
-conversation and phonetics (30 min)
-task, simple worksheet to cover (15 min)
-setting self-targets for the week (5 min)
This is an example but it can vary a lot depending on your needs and wants, my objective is to be as adaptable as needed to suit your requirements. Some people may be starting to learn and others perhaps taking a C-level exam. My last few students were exactly like that, I had a lady doing her C1 and a young man learning English for the first time. The important thing is to identify together what to focus on!
I hope to hear from you soon.
Take care,
Alessandro