Hi, my name's Gianna and I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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And I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

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with a degree in Spanish and political science.

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So after receiving my certification to teach English

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as a foreign language, I moved to Madrid, Spain to work

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as an English language assistant at a secondary school.

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After my first year of teaching, for the first time ever,

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I've taken on the philosophy that I want

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to help my students build the tools necessary to

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continue learning well

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after our tutoring sessions have ended.

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I believe that language learning is a lifetime pursuit,

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and I wanna make sure that my students

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have the full capability to continue learning English, uh,

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for the rest of their life.

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Um, in my lesson plans, I like to include a lot

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of pop culture news and music of all genres.

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Um, English is a language with a lot of idioms,

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so I always like to include in my warmups, you know,

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guessing what the idiom might mean.

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I recently made a lesson plan surrounding

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the expressions, using the word mind.

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Um, some sites that I like to use are the New York Times,

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specifically their word games,

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like the Wordle or the connections.

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I also enjoy using the site breaking news English, which has

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a ton of different current news stories in levels

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of zero to six.

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So I find it's a really good way to engage with current news

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with my students and sparking a lot of good conversations.

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Uh, please message me if you have any questions

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and I would love to, um,

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book our first tutoring session together.

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