Sample English Tuition
A better way for your students to learn.
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Work With us
This page gives a taste of how we can help your students improve their English for Creative Careers.
The next step is letting us know you are interested in Blue Noun providing Art School English tuition for your Students.
Over a video call, we’ll learn the specifics of your school and adapt a course to your needs.
If you need a translator, please arrange for them to be present on the call.
The 1% Principle
One principle of our English tuition is the 1% Method.
This states that students need to achieve only 1% progress in their English to pass their grade for the semester.
Setting a low ‘must do’ target hands responsibility for progressing in English to the student.
We will keep offering rich, interesting content that will keep them engaged and learning.
This sets good learning habits for a lifetime.
This isn’t a high school class.
One pedagogic target is mature autonomous language learning.
Real conversations
Instead of only talking to each other in English, your students will mix with international artists and students from other Art & Design colleges, in a curated mix of live coaching calls and chat groups, eg: WhatsApp.
The Menu
Students choose from a Menu how they achieve this (and we support their learning progress).
Sample Menu for Students
Each student will be emailed their English options in the form of a Typeform questionnaire.
The 1% Menu
Students choose from a list of 12 learning options, presented in a format which looks like this:
Sample Menu
Option 2: Read a Book (fiction)
Students choose to read from our selection of 6 set books (fiction).
Students:
- Choose their book
- Keep a notebook of previously unknown vocabulary
- Make a quick sketch note/illustration per chapter.
- Submit the photos of vocab/sketches weekly.
- Have short, regular WhatsApp voice message chats about what they are reading.
- All book groups join a month Zoom to share information and ideas from their reading.
This option is most suitable for mid-level students WHO ENJOY READING FICTION in their first language.
Any student taking this option agrees to keeping a notebook, sending weekly images & responding to our comprehension questions within 48 hrs.
Sample Menu
Option 4: Video
1. Once per month, students watch an artist interview from the Tate Archives (link will be emailed). The video will relate to a contemporary art & design theme (eg: public art, diaspora, craft skills).
2. The student makes notes on the video and submits a voice message summarising the film.
3. By the end of the month, each student has made their own 5-minute video on the same theme (potential for collaboration here) The student’s video can be any kind of interview or a presentation by the student (in English) – or a creative or artistic film.
(In the case of the 3rd option, the film is accompanied by a short text introducing the work).
“Your students will mix with other international art students in Whatsapp groups, video calls and Club House“
Ruth Pringle, 2024
Bonus Activities
Your students will be invited to drop into additional workshops, including:
Pronunciation Workshop by English coach Jennie Reed
Mood Collage Workshop by artist Fiona McGarva
Journalling workshop by life coach and therapist Lhamo Grace.
The workshops offer fun ways to get English practice into your students’ routines and build confidence.