Tutor Profile

Marie

Private French and Spanish Tutor in Bath

Native French professional tutor, preparing for French / Spanish exams, French for leisure or work.

Tuition for young students, catching up or stretching yourself. Working at your pace and according to your needs, the target language will become clearer, easier and pleasurable. For adults, for work or leisure, at whichever level, pace or capacity, the teaching will be adapted to you.

I also teach Hindi for beginners

Teaching Experience

I have been teaching for 25+ years, in Spain and UK mainly. I have prepared the secondary school pupils for the GCSE, IGCSE, A Level, the European Baccalaureate and university. I have taught in businesses, after school clubs and still teach for the Alliance Française. I tutor primary from 5/6 years old, secondary and university students, one to one tuition or small groups. I teach adults who want to learn French for leisure or professional reasons.

Tutoring Approach

I will make sure that for the exams you are prepared for the four skills, reading, writing, listening and speaking and we will cover all the requirements for your subject and level, but tailored to your own specific needs. I will also teach you the skills to understand a text or an audio extract using the grammar and inferring the meanings according to the context. Grammar has become an important aspect of language learning in secondary schools and I will make sure that this is covered as well. For the adult, I generally use methods that are created by native linguist and follow a rigorous progression, which allow the student to go back home with all the material to revise and do exercises if they wish. I will also add other documents when needed. The lessons for the children are fun, but there is also a real learning process, that goes beyond presentations and the knowledge of the colours. For all the levels I use a good number of platforms with interactive exercices, games, videos etc. Google Doc and BitPaper, an interactive whiteboard.

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Qualifications

DELF/DALF assessor certificate

Professional · France Education International (French government) · certificate of participation obtained after passing the evaluation · 2026

PGCE Modern Foreign Languages (Secondary)

PGCE · Oxford Brookes University and Westminster College · 2001

QTS

QTS · Department for Education · 2001

European University Diploma in Language Teaching, French as a Foreign Language

Other · University of Toulouse · 1995

Maîtrise FLE: French as a Foreign Language

Masters · University of Toulouse · 1994

Licence Spanish Literature and Civilisation

Bachelors · University of Toulouse · 1992

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ElenaFirst Tutors

Marie is an amazing French tutor! I started lessons with her when preparing for French IGCSE and she helped me achieve more than 95%. I then continued to study French with her as I love the language and I greatly enjoyed our lessons. She helped me prepare for Delf Junior B2 exam and I am so so thankful for all the support she gave me! With her help, I achieved 94% on my B2 exam. I really recommend Marie to anyone who is preparing for a French exam or who is in love with the language and wishes to practice it and improve their fluency in French. Anna

MaxFirst Tutors

Very patient and incredibly high standard of teaching

PujaFirst Tutors

Marie has a lovely and calm personality to have around children, both patient and encouraging whilst keeping all engaged and progressing in the language. She is highly IT literate which also goes down very well with the children!

CharlotteFirst Tutors

Marie is very thorough and patient. I’m enjoying my lessons a lot

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