CHARLES ADAMS

BA (Hons), Cert. TESOL (Trinity College London)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER/TRAINER/INSTRUCTOR

HIGHLY EXPERIENCED, MATURE, ELT PROFESSIONAL

VERSED IN COMMUNICATIVE METHODOLOGY, ESP, IELTS

TEACHER TRAINING, COURSE DESIGN AND CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT

• 20 years’ experience of teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults
• has lived and worked in 10 countries:
  • 8 years as Sales and Marketing Manager (London, 1979–1987)
  • Italy, Finland, Sweden (1987–1993)
  • 10 years as freelance proofreader/copy-editor (UK, 1994–2002)
  • Azerbaijan (2002), Saudi Arabia (2003), Oman (2004–2013)
  • South Africa, Nepal (2014–2019)
  • Estonia (2019– )
• Associate Tutor, University of Warwick [UK], Pre-sessional English (International MSc students), 2018, 2019
• Language proficiency (various) in Italian, French, German, Swedish, Finnish and Hindi/Urdu
• IT skills: Google, Outlook, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail
• trained in CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) (Royal Air Force of Oman)
• experience of British Council inspection (London, September 2014)
• English language tutor to HE French Ambassador to Nepal (2016)