Free English Lessons Archive
These videos are recordings of real lessons I’ve had with students, shared with their permission. You’ll find lessons on TOEFL Reading, TOEFL Writing, IELTS preparation, and more. Additional videos will be added over time. If you’re interested in having your own lesson, you can book one here.
Private TOEFL Workshops
In this lesson, I work with a lawyer from Saudi Arabia who is applying to several top law schools, including Harvard and Stanford. Together, we go through all 10 questions for a TOEFL Reading passage about pinyon pine trees and pinyon jay birds.
This passage and its quiz are available for free here. I recommend taking the quiz before watching the video so that the video serves as an explanation rather than just giving away the answers. When you attempt the quiz first, you engage with the passage actively, rely on your own reasoning, and experience the challenge as it would appear in the real exam. Then, when you watch the video, you can compare your thought process with the explanations, understand why you got certain questions wrong, and reinforce the correct strategies. If you watch the video first, you might recognize the answers too easily on the quiz without truly processing the passage, which reduces the learning impact.
P.S. I just received the good news that Abdullah has scored 30/30 in both the Reading and the Writing module! (3 April 2025)
In these two lessons, I work with a physiotherapist from Poland who is preparing for the TOEFL test. We go through both types of Listening tasks: Conversation and Lecture, using authentic TOEFL practice materials. The student had already completed these practice tests, so our focus was on reviewing the incorrect answers, discussing why they were wrong, and identifying better strategies. This is the approach I usually take with students who are already familiar with the question types and want to fine-tune their accuracy.
In this video, I work through a TOEFL reading practice test with a physiotherapist from Poland. I review his answers, identify mistakes, and discuss how to improve. I recommend you try the test on your own first before watching to get the most out of the lesson.
The reading passage used in this video is available here.
In this session, I work with a South Korean student living in the U.S. as we focus on TOEFL Speaking Task 2. We used sample prompts from my site to practice forming clear, structured responses while working through grammar issues and pacing. The goal was to help him express his ideas more naturally under time pressure without relying on memorized phrases. The video shows how we broke down each question, adjusted his phrasing, and built more confident, fluent answers through repetition and feedback. Sample questions seen in the video are available here.
In this lesson, I work with Andrii, a student preparing for the TOEFL exam, as we go through all the question types found in a TOEFL Reading passage from The Official Guide to the TOEFL iBT® Test, Sixth Edition. We cover vocabulary questions, sentence simplification, sentence insertion, summary questions, writer’s purpose, inference questions, and detail-based factual questions.
Unfortunately, Andrii’s microphone was not recorded, so his responses are silent in the video. However, this allows you to pause, think through the answers yourself, and actively engage with the material.
Private IELTS Workshops
In this lesson, I work with Victor from El Salvador on an IELTS Reading passage from Cambridge IELTS 19, Test 1, Passage 1. We go through all the questions in the passage, focusing on two key IELTS question types: fill-in-the-blank (one word only) and true/false/not given.
As we work through the passage, we discuss strategies for identifying keywords, scanning for answers efficiently, and avoiding common mistakes. This lesson is a great resource for anyone looking to improve their IELTS Reading skills with real test material.
Watch a few of my videos to see how I approach teaching and what you can expect.
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