English Language Tuition
What's so special about ADAM?
ADAM Executive English provides boutique English-language tuition and cultural immersion experiences to London's business and sporting communities. Our commitment to pedogological innovation and outstanding customer service, combined with decades of teaching and coaching language students and shared experiences of learning languages as adults, mean we are perfectly placed to help imprive anyone's English-langauge abilities, whatever their needs.
A Collaborative Approach to Language Learning
We believe that language is fundamentally about communication, so our classes encourage students to talk and develop the confidence to make mistakes. We then work on the errors that our individual language learners make, combining relevant topics with a variety of exercises to improve the specific areas that our students need.
Our teachers often use problem-posing approaches to their lessons, whereby they ask questions of the student instead of explaining answers outright. This encourages engagement with difficult topics, which is then reinforced over subsequent sessions.
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Teaching requires
knowing how to listen
- Paolo Friere
How do our lessons work?
As in every walk of life, it's vital that we understand our clients' needs before anything else. For that reason, we offer free 30-minute needs analysis and consultancy sessions to all our prospective students. This is also a chance for our new clients / students to experience the approach and techniques that set us apart from other language-tuition providers.
At a time and place agreed to best suit our clients, our one-to-one or small-group tutors use collaborative
internet tools that they access through the iPads which we provide them. These shareable documents mean students and teachers are able to access notes and recorded work at their leisure.
As we plan our courses around the specific needs of our students, our expert teachers can deliver a wide range of skills and exercises to meet the student's goals.
Often in the same lesson, we may teach any or all of the following:
Pronunciation and sentence stress
Are you having trouble making yourself understood in important meetings or presentations? At ADAM, we view pronunciation as the symphony of individual sounds, meaning we help you to communicate better through a variety of exercises that look specifically at your own needs, big and small, while focussing on sentence structures rather than individual sounds.
Grammar
While English is a flexible language and people don't mind hearing mistakes, in order to improve, we find that a firm grammatical framework can help many of our students to get to grips with the logic and oddities of the English language. Depending on the needs of our students, this might mean working on tenses, prepositions, articles, comparatives and superlatives, or conditionals, to name a few areas.
Exams
We can help students through many of the most popular exams in the English Language, including:
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LanguageCert International & General, for UKVI
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Trinity College: English Language Tests for UKVI
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IELTS Academic, General, and for UKVI
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PTE Academic UKVI and PTE Home
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BEC (Preliminary, Vantage, Higher)
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Cambridge C2 Proficiency
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Cambridge C1 Advanced
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Cambridge B2 First
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and others
Vocabulary and special purposes
The conversational nature of our lessons mean that students are encouraged to discuss their lives and therefore the vocabulary that they need most often. We also help with short written tasks, using the language of students' emails or other texts as a guide to their learning, while helping to improve it.
Discretion and professionalism
Everyone associated with ADAM Executive English is expected to conduct themselves with the highest levels of professionalism and decorum at all times. We understand that our clients may divulge sensitive information in the course of their lessons, and our teachers are trained specifically in handling such disclosures with the utmost discretion.
All our staff are subject to enhanced DBS checks to ensure they are suitable representatives of ADAM Executive English. In case complaints are made against any member of the ADAM team, we have strict procedures to follow.
Language exerts hidden
power, like the moon on the tides
- Rita Mae Brown
Our Packages
A course with ADAM Executive English gives you:
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Bespoke English-Language Tuition to meet your personal requirements
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Flexible Scheduling, at a time and place convenient to you
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Lessons can take place at the student’s London residence, office, club, or online
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Focus on communication, grammar, and cultural understanding
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IELTS, LanguageCert, Trinity, Cambridge, and all exams for UK visas
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DBS-cleared teachers
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No extra fees
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No materials costs
As well as the above, a tuition package gives you:
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Accessible lesson notes through Google Docs
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10% discount on all Tours with ADAM
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An ADAM Executive English Student Pack
All subscriptions are based on package of 600 minutes paid in advance by bank transfer. Trial lessons are available on request. Bespoke deals and multi-student offerings are also available, and you can find out more by contacting us through the form below.
The Platinum Package
Your phone beeps with a message alert. You glance at the screen and sigh. There’s been a problem overnight at one of your offices overseas, and you’re now going to be dealing with that all day. You notice the time; you have a lesson in five minutes and your personal tutor is sitting downstairs in the waiting room.
Thankfully, you have subscribed to ADAM’s Platinum Package, so you can reschedule without any further charges. What is more, we will do our best to prioritise your next booking, so you can get on with your day, safe in the knowledge that your next session can be booked with a single message.
A Platinum subscription gives you:
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Fully flexible timing (last-minute rescheduling, dependent on teacher availability)
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In-person or online to suit the student
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Cancel any time, even during a class
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Be the first to know about all Tours with ADAM and language events
The Standard Package
With our Standard Package, you still get all the benefits of ADAM’s high-quality private tuition – our outstanding teachers still give you personalised training delivered at a time and place that work for you. We still plan and deliver bespoke courses tailored to your needs, and we still allow you the freedom to rearrange your sessions around your busy life. The only difference is that all cancellations or amendments to your course have to be made five working days in advance. If you have a predictable schedule, this option is for you.
A Standard subscription gives you:
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Semi-flexible timing (1-week in advance)
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In-person or online (fixed for 10 lessons)
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48-hour cancellation
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Advanced notice of Tours with ADAM and language events
