Laurie Wood

I am a second year University Student studying modern languages (French, Spanish, German and Italian). After achieving an A on both French and Spanish at A-Level, I have continued my love for languages at Newcastle University.

The lessons that I offer will be tailored to each student focusing on developing their language skills and achieving their personal language goals. From experience, I know that learning a language takes lots of practice and needs a lot of time dedicated to master it.

My approach will be to encourage as much use of the language possible, and finding ways to develop the knowledge of the language, in order to be able to achieve more fluency. I will also focus on learning the gramatical side to the language, ale though it may be not be exciting, it is most certainly very necessary.

The content of the lessons will depend on the student and their personal goals, higher level students may be able to have conversations in Spanish which I have found is one of the best ways to learn a language. Students who haven't spent as much time on learning Spanish will be exposed to more learning activities such as reading and writing activities.

I believe that language skills are an important addition to someone's skill set and I am keen to spread my interest for them. I am keen to get to know a student and their individual learning needs in order to create the best learning environment possible for them, whilst pushing them to achieve success.