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Ages 5 to 16 · Mazamet

English for children and teenagers

A child who dares to speak English.

A child’s hands turning the pages of a large illustrated English book, picture cards beside it
Two children turning over the cards of an illustrated memory game
A teenager’s hands on a laptop, next to a vocabulary notebook and headphones
A child’s hand moving a piece on an illustrated board game
Children’s drawings pegged along a string
A stack of picture books next to a small globe
A child holding up a hand-drawn card of a red double-decker bus

A child doesn’t learn English by being afraid of getting it wrong. They learn it by having a go, playing, and trying again.

Helen Phillips

01What you want

What you want is not a child who recites. It is a child who isn’t frightened of speaking English: who answers when asked a question, who has a go, who gets it wrong and tries again without shutting down. That is exactly what I work on, from the first hour, with a programme built for your child and not for “9 to 12 year olds”.

02By age

An approach that changes at every age

  1. A young child’s hands holding a soft toy fox and a picture card of the sun

    Ages 5 to 8

    We start early, through play, so that English is something appealing before it is ever something to learn. Songs, stories, pictures and things to name.

  2. Children’s hands holding the cards of an illustrated game, a sand timer beside them

    Ages 9 to 12

    Attention is short at this age, so I don’t waste it. Games and real exchanges are what get children talking, and the progress arrives without them noticing.

  3. A teenager’s hands on a phone, next to headphones and an open notebook

    Ages 13 to 16

    Subjects they actually care about, work on speaking fluently without fear of mistakes, and digital tools built into the lesson, because that is where they live.

03In practice

Where and when

At 4 Boulevard Soult in Mazamet. One-to-one, or in a small group of two to six children. A termly subscription following the French school calendar: one hour a week.

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  • €40

    an hour, one-to-one

  • €20

    an hour, in a small group

  • €20

    a two-hour workshop, 2 to 4 children

  • €125

    a holiday course of five half-days

04The holidays

In the holidays too

Themed workshops (Christmas, Easter, Halloween, journalism) and intensive courses of five half-days, for ages 8 to 16: English learned without noticing.

See the workshops and holiday courses

The first lesson is for getting to know each other

An hour to see where your child is, what they enjoy and what holds them back. No commitment.

Register my child07 80 34 50 31