French tutor in St George's Hill.

Lessons on the estate are always at the student's home, in keeping with how things are done here. Discretion is part of the service, and I bring everything we need with me so no two lessons leave the same trail in the diary.

Several of the families I teach on St George's Hill are francophone or partly francophone. Lessons in those households often look more like proper conversation lessons in French than traditional tuition: keeping a child's vocabulary alive while they're educated in English, for example, or helping a non-native partner reach the level where family meals can switch language without anyone bowing out.

For pupils preparing for selective school entry exams, GCSE, or A-Level, the work is structured and exam-aware, but the speaking side stays alive throughout. By the time of the exam, the oral feels like the easy paper rather than the hard one.