flyxu

我有一个好朋友来自多伦多，专职教授英语。我感觉此人功力很深，尤其是善于解决大多数同胞口音方面的问题。而且写作一流，授之以鱼，亦授之以渔。以下是他的个人简历，我只是感觉这个朋友人很好，找一个好老师也不容易，同时顺便帮一些人很想提高英语水平的人提供一条信息。如果有兴趣,直接按本文中的方式联系他.实在不感兴趣，也可以学学个人简历的写法


Derek Maisonville
English Teacher/Tutor
514-485-6568       
bugs@oyabuntatsu.com

  I have taught English for one and a half years at Noble Academy in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and privately here in Montreal since May 2003. I have taught both small classes of 2-7 students and individual students. My experience includes teaching students ranging in age from 7 to 49 years old, and I have taught more than 60 students over a period of approximatley 750 hours.

  I have predominantly taught grammar, vocabulary, essay writing and literature, but I have also taught pronunciation, conversation, writing, reading critical analysis, phonics, spelling, and more.

  I was always an A+ English student, although I now study History and Political Science at York University. I am a consistent A to A+ student and I am well known for my writing skills.

  Specific curricula vary according to the needs of the specific student(s). In other words, I will always cater my teaching direction to the specific needs of the student(s).

  Private tutoring is available at a rate of $15 per hour, or classes can be arranged for students with similar learning interests at a rate of $12 per hour per student.

  Furthermore, English editing of business texts or scholary essays is available at a varying rate according to the needs of the client.

  For more information, do not hesitate to give me a call.


Sincerely,

Derek Maisonville

BBA

What is his native language? Apart from English, whatelse language he speaks or knows?

OPEL

我倒，就这种写作水平也号称"well known for my writing skills"

兄台，give me a break!!!

waterwall

To be honest, his writing skill is very good.I believe he is a good teacher.

55555

To be honest, his $_making skill is very good.I believe he is a good seller.

flyxu

我觉得这种简历水平很不错啊，为什么有人说不好呢？各方面都点到了，各种复杂句式也准确无误的show过了，又不是自传，不可能写成惊险小说吧。不过中国是卧虎藏龙之地，老俞的单词量也比很多美国人多，所以不奇怪。仔细看，至少看起来很舒服，听他说话更是这样，对于英语各方面还不是很熟练的人有很大的帮助。而且他是母语为英语的白人，和我是学法语的时候认识的，当时自称从ABC到Shakespear都可以教授。我受其点拨一二，颇有一番感触，才到这里来推荐。毕竟不是每个native speaker都可以教英语的，至少我的很多朋友都不行，这我自己也能感觉到，就像我们教中文一样。我不知道这里的职业英语教师收费是怎样的，他似乎也不清楚，还说很多人charge a lot，言外之意自己要价已经很低了. 可能行情还是多伦多的   不过要想学，估计这应该可以商量。我们学英语的目的倒不是为了和自己人较量，而是缩小与当地人差距，以免无形中形成一种不平等。如果自己提高了，目的也就达到了，这是事实。祝大家好运  wink

cdavid

如果这是个以英语为母语的人写的， 那你还是劝他别干这行了。

说实话，我并不认为他的母语是英语(也许他蒙了你)，就他这两笔刷子，好比你让一个在中国只上了小学的人，来这儿写个简历来在大学里教中文。

费话免了，我还是真的头一回看人家在写do not hesitate时，前面不加Please的。

flyxu

仁兄所说的，我事先也注意到了。但对一个懂一点点法语，其余只会英语的人来说，不用问也知道是native Englsih speaker，也许那就是他的风格. 如果光从不加please就得出那一番类比，好像有点污辱人的意思 :p   而且这也实在没必要蒙吧，又不是培训恐怖分子  :confused:  不过就像有些中国人说本地的french canadian的法语不是其母语一样，咱们中间确实高手如林  :cool:

cdavid

好，姑且我们认可他母语是英语，可这更证明了他的能力差些：首先，他不大懂文章的结构，用最普通的手法把他的教学经验和资历赘述了一番，让人看了不大流畅；其次，他的开篇不好，很生硬；最后，他的语言贫乏，句子结构也不是很美。你看他用了几次have taught，这是写文章的一大忌。

discovery

别争了!    
英语比起咱们汉语来简直就象婴儿咿呀学语,
他多重复几遍,你才能听懂,听懂不就行啦!        
English is a Terrible Language
author unknown

We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
When couldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
But I give a boot ... would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this and plural is these,

Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese?

Then one may be that, and three may be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose;

We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!

So our English, I think you will all agree,
Is the trickiest language you ever did see.

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt)

A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there.
And dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up-and goose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.

And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd learned to speak it when I was five,

And yet to write it, the more I sigh ...