Mike has been teaching me for a couple of months now and this experience for me is one of the best, because i like the way he teaches us. He makes us think not only about the situations given in the textbooks but also about examples from our own lives, he makes all the exercises more real.
I am always glad to come to the lessons, because the atmosphere in the classroom is easy and friendly, I feel myself comfortable. All the students feel the same, because Mike is very attentive to the small things and he is always here to help you, when all the things go wrong. On the exam he is determined and demanding but still very outgoing and open.
Mike arrived in early September. Before him we had been taught by Russian teachers and that was the main problem. Of course, our previous teacher was excellent, fluent in English and erudite.
However, she did not know very much about subtleties of the English language: she was non-native English speaker. But Mike is American, that is why he shows us subtleties of English throughout the whole educational process. One would say that lessons should be conducted with strictness, total obedience to the teacher, so that new information is better assimilated. But this is not applicable to the lessons with Mike. Our lessons are filled with laughter and training, of course. So, the lessons are not tedious. And the last but not least component of our lessons is practice: thanks to Mike, we have highly improved our speaking.
All in all, lessons with Mike helped us improve our English every way. It is great experience to have lessons with him.
To describe how it has been my experience being a student of teacher Mike I would like to mention how I met him. He was my English teacher in High School but at that time I did not have the level of English that I needed to pass the course so he told me about specific lessons which he provided himself and I have to confess that such lessons made a big difference in my level of English. The main difference was the methodology because the classes were really dynamic, trying to put all the knowledge in the daily life doing some classes out of the classroom for example I remembered a class in an Ice cream shop and we had to ask everything in English and that was really nice. The thing that I liked most was the relation between teacher- students that we had because He was the first teacher who really helped me to improve my English especially in the speaking skills. Furthermore I always had a good time in his classes and more out of classes because he is a really cool and funny guy. To conclude, I will always remember Teacher Mike as my best teacher ever.
Learning of a foreign language is not an easy task. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. That's why it is very important to have a good teacher. Mike is my teacher and it is pleasure for me to go to his lessons. The lesson always takes place in an easy, relaxed form. Atmosphere in the classroom is always friendly. It seems to me that Mike can find an approach to any student, because he is very friendly and outgoing. Mike is very different from Russian teachers, he doesn’t ask huge homework, doesn’t shout at the students and he also hang out with them as friends. He never mocks at the pupils if we say or do something wrong. He patiently corrects our mistakes and explains us everything we can’t understand. At first I was a little afraid to go to his lessons, because I was afraid that I could not overcome the language barrier, but my fears were in vain, because he can convey to the student even the most complex information in simple words.
Our lessons always take place in unusual form. We don't just sit behind textbooks and learn words, but we communicate, joke, and discuss pressing problems. Several times we watched Friends at the lesson, and then completed tasks to understand it. All these things help a lot to develop your English speech, learn new words and expressions and make the right sentence. Mike helps us to learn his language, and we tell him about the history, culture, customs and strangeness of our country.
I am very grateful to Mike, because he made me interested in this subject.
I'm very glad that Mike taught me. It was very exciting. We played games and talked a lot about various themes. We also sang songs, especially by Nickelback. I like this band. We watched some videos. I remember about an airport. He is a great teacher. He is friendly, welcoming and wise. One day, in the group we discussed the topic "Social problems". I decided to speak about the children who stayed without parents (orphans). I said that I 'd ask my parents to help and bring up them with me. By the way, Mike was very happy and suggested another way.. Sometimes it is really important to discuss social problems (e.g. social injustice). So now I graduated from school and I do English at the University. Moreover, I'll be doing Italian when I 'm a third year student. Because I like learning languages. I want to be like Mike. He knows a lot of languages. Thank you so much for teaching.
I met Mike when I was looking for some native speaker who could help me to improve my speaking. I think he has turned to be perfect for it. It was very easy to speak with him even at the first meeting. Our classes was always full of fun and humour which make the material easy to remember. Besides Mike can explain difficult things in a really simple and understandable way. And what I like the best is that at our classes I was not only enlarging my vocabulary but also widened my outlook, because his lessons are always very informative. I hope that sometime I will have an opportunity to continue studying English with Mike.
Hello everybody! My name is Stepan, in 2019 I’m graduating from school. Mike was my English language teacher for a year and I want to tell you something about him.
First of all, Mike is great as teacher. His professionalism and knowledge of languages can teach anybody with the most sophisticated stuff. Moreover, he is extremely purposeful. Therefore, he will never give up or ignore if someone didn’t understand the part of a lesson or a theme.
The icing on the cake is his perfect sense of humor. Oh, his humor… Every lesson will be felt in three time shorter with his way of its presentation. Mike is an easy-going person who easily became our friend and then every study day was filled with the special Mike’s feeling of moment. He knows when it’s okay to be equal to us to explain something, or to be serious teacher, or to laugh with us at our overtime tea parties :)
I will remember Mike’s determination forever. He survived in our inclement Russian conditions and stood happy every day. He is your best candidate as a teacher and a person!
Mike... A positive person, a person with a huge soul. He instantly charges the people around him with his energy, his kindness. Each lesson with him was remembered in its own way. It was always fun and friendly. Mike is always interesting to listen to because behind him is a great experience. Mike gives each student a certain attention as each student is individual. With him you can always find a common language, common ground. He's an amazing person and а great teacher.
First of all, I would like to say that I have had an experience of learning English with teacher Mike, the best teacher I have ever had. The main thing that differs Mike from other teachers is that he teaches his students according to their needs and preferences. He has his own individual way of teaching. He helped me to open my skills and overtake my shyness and to break the barrier in communicating with foreigners. Mike can find the way of communication with different students of different ages and levels in English, especially teenagers. My group liked him very much because of his ability to find topics that were very interesting for us. I would like to pay attention to his flexibility, sociability, versatility and good sense of humour.
So, Mike is one of the most talented person that I have ever met.
Well, to start thank you very much to Professor Mike
because I managed to learn this language that complicated me a lot, for supported me and listened to all doubts, however absurd they may have been. Something I can highlight is his way of reaching the students, his teaching method is really good. Nowadays I am still using the English language and I am doing very well, I have already traveled and I have been able to communicate every one I have needed and that is what I owe since it has been six years since I was his student. I just have to say thank you teacher Mike.
I would like to talk about the most interesting English Teacher, about Mike Llerena. I lived in a small town and studied at a local English school, every six months a foreign teacher came to us so that we would train not only with our teachers, but also with native speakers. Then, Mike came to our school. From the first lesson, he created an incredibly warm atmosphere in our classes, these were not just stupid book classes, no, these were actually interesting classes in the form of dialogue, we constantly talked about some pressing topics, watched episodes of TV shows and discussed them, played games. When we didn’t understand any of the topics, Mike tried to explain to us more simply. These were lessons that I wanted to come back every time. Moreover, Mike supported communication of extra-curricular activities, he was the initiator of creating a conversation at WhatsApp, we also talked there, joked, then Mike suggested to get together and watch films in English on the weekend, it was very cool , sometimes after the movie we went for a walk or went to a cafe. In March, I decided to leave the English school for some reason, but I liked the lessons with Mike so much that I began to study with him individually to support my English. Classes that lasted 1.5 hours passed very quickly and efficiently.
Thanks to him, I really fell in love with English and consequently decided to study abroad. Now, I have got into George Brown College, in Toronto, Canada, and this is definitely due to Mike. This teacher has become a good friend for me, with whom we still communicate. Thank you so much Mike for this wonderful time.
I like Mike's teaching way, his sense of humor, in his class is easy, very happy to learn, particularly active classroom atmosphere. Teacher Mike was very patience, my pronunciation is not very standard, but every time he is particularly serious, patience, give me the correct, I am very thankful to him! Mike's serious attitude also inspired me a lot. Every time I tried to send the standard pronunciation, although it is still very bad now, I believe it will get better through effort! Teacher Mike is really good, I believe, all the students will like him very much!
Hello guys! This is Sebrina I'm very honor to be Mike's student. Mike is an excellent teacher. He always give students an exemplary impression. He uses the basic solid foundation of English and nature teaching state to show us the beauty of oral English.
When we met difficult point He manuvour the use of language description and questioning, etc. To create a situation, so that students into the scene of emotion, to be infected, and a positive attitude into learning. After the class He effectively stimulate the students interest in learning and thirst for knowledge, so that students without psychological pressure in the case of autonomy to participate in learning, leaving students the space to show the full personality and ability.
Throughout the whole class, students enthusiasm for learning, teachers and students interaction is good, with understanding, and achieved good learning results. Besides Mike focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing a variety of skills training, effectively improve the students' comprehensive English ability. Okay that's all about our friend Mike. I really recommend you guys to have his class, I'm sure you guys will obsessed with that.
In the second semester sophomore year, we always follow the form of online course although has many advantages, it also has many inevitable disadvantages such as students can communicate with teachers face to face, problems may not be solved timely due to the Internet and so on. But have to say Mike is very responsible, Mike when communicating with students encouraged the students to actively open the camera to realize the face to face communication, the lecture is not boring, will give students a lot of examples from several aspects to grasp the key points in the book.I think the magic is Mike not only to the contents of the lectures in this through other aspects of knowledge, and let the students know the knowledge in the book, no matter how it is promoted or interacted, it will give us full affirmation and support, I think this is probably What the western education is worth learning.And I admire it very much. In my opinion, college students acceptance of such courses is very helpful for their study and future work, especially for the foreign language department. In a word, I like mike's teaching style very much, so I hope to continue to offer such courses.
Mike's voice is sooo nice, his lectures are humurous and i"m sooo happy in his class. What's more, the content of the class is very rich and the topics are very interesting. And we can cooperate actively. I can practice my oral English well, and my expression ability has been improved. I feel that time has passed quickly in his class. I am so sad to end the class everytime, and i hope to have a few more classes.
Mike is very careful in his class. He can tell us a lot about what we need to know and correct our grammar and pronunciation mistakes. We will also tell many stories to learn other knowledge, such as chinese history and culture. At the same time, I can also contact my pronunciation and language ability in Mike's class. I love Mike's class.
The teacher teaches very seriously and corrects our mistakes in time. He is kind and humurous in class. He can manage the classroom atmosphere very well.
Your class is very lively and interesting!
I like your teaching style very much, and i learned a lot of knowledge when i'm very relax and cheerful. We don't often use english to express, to narrate history, but in your class we have the opportunity to express. It's a pity that i didn't come to the first few classes because of the students union work, which is really a los for me. I really hope you you will be able to teach us again.
Finally, I want to say, I love your voice and the way you teach. I'm looking forward to meeting you next time.
Under your guidance, my spoken english has improved a lot. Each time the course content is very interesting, I had a good time. Thank you, Mike.
It was really lucky that I can meet such a good teacher. After 10-hours lessons, just 10 hours, the improvement I got for my speaking skills is already too big to describe with my poor words. Although I came to him for IELTs speaking test, he still gave me lots of extend knowledge about how to write, with his long-term educating experience and understanding of exam, I got a huge progress. Interestingly, before he taught me, my speaking was the weakest part of mine, but after his teaching, the speaking part of test even become my most confident part. Anyway, if you are hesitating whether you need a teacher, go contact Mike in no time, don't be afraid about his burly appearance by the way, actually he's a really friendly person to everyone.
Mike was not only a teacher he is also a real friend, although at the beginning we didn't connect each other, we started sharing some words here and there and without knowing we started being friends. And don’t get me wrong when I said we are friends, he still gave us bad grades if i deserved them, which i usually deserved because I was an awful student. Mike has an incredible way to get to the students and that is one of his strongest points, he knows how to teach, and that might be something ridiculous but not all teachers know how to teach some of them just give you some exercise and some tests every now and then but he gave us lessons on how to properly use English not only teaching us how to write something or how to pronounce something, he taught us how to use it in a real way for a real situation.
He also used to give us rewards if we had good grades by the end of every block he used to give us some achievement award, and yes, they are just a piece of paper with no real value but it felt really nice when we got them because it felt like all our effort was for something, and yes, passing the year is nice but the real award is nicer.
He was without a doubt one of the highest level teachers I’ve ever had.
At the end of the day Mike had a really great impact in my life he taught me a lot of things besides English. He taught me how hard life can be if you don’t have a purpose, he taught me that no matter how bad it seems it can always be better.
Teacher Mike is the best teacher that a student can have. He teaches us from heart, besides English, he taught me the importance of values, with classes with interactive exercises that make me wanted to learn as much as I can, he made me get interested in the language.
His interaction with us, he made me feel confident. He always came with a smile on his face and made me feel happy too.
He always took care of my pronunciation and writing and if I could not understand something he explained to me until we get the idea.
All in all, he is the best teacher and the best person that somebody could meet.
My experience at teacher Mike's sessions were awesome, I really liked it because of his way to teach, he used to make sessions very interesting, they were not boring, every class he used to have a new way to call our attention like a joke, an experience, or just making silence and looking at us like telling with his sight “silence”, and of course his knowledge, he really knew what he had to teach. I have good memories from teacher Mike,s English classes, the best part of them were when we used to have debates about any topic, they were awesome because the class was divided in two groups, the topic was picked and the discussion started, those debates were funny, enjoyable and interesting. His methodology to make his students learn, in my point of view, was very effective, because you learned, even though you didn’t want to. It was a good experience to have Mike as my teacher and now as friend.
Honestly, I have being learning English all my life with interruptions and now I have decided to go to the end. I enrolled in English lessons. I spoke with English speakers before but in the role of teacher Mike was the first. Mike taught 45 minutes a week. Communicating with him I once again became convinced that the method of studying the language in Russia in many schools is tied to grammar. Mike is a supporter of live communication and parallel reinforcement by rules on the fact that allows you to get used to thinking in another language. In addition, Mike's classes are accompanied by an informal atmosphere, reasoning, communication, which is so lacking in ordinary classes where the teacher constantly tries to return to the program according to the textbook. In addition to classes, we had friendly relation, you know, it's like when you did not communicate much, but you feel like that there is much in common between views. Our daily life is filled with many small things and I hope that at least to keep some contact between us remain. I hope when I can come to America, Mike might be able to see me and show me his homeland as he sees it. In conclusion, I want to say, scientists have long put forward the theory that in what language a person learned to speak from childhood is such a way of thinking. Every time I was convinced of this by listening to Mike's speech, he expressed himself very simply while I would say this sentence is more difficult. Therefore, to learn languages they need to make our world wider. I hope and I have the patience. Thank you Mike for the friendship and knowledge that you shared this time! I want you to have everything in your life as you dream and plan!
Hi everyone, let me tell you my story about “How I increased my English level”. Long time I was looking for someone who would be able to give a high quality English lesson. Since my town small and there is very small change to find somebody, moreover local teacher cannot give deep understanding of language. I was more interested in a person who can mix Technical vocabulary and speaking skills in the end I was lucky to meet Mike.
Who is Mike? He is a teacher with perfect sense of what a student wants. He helped me reach my target. In 2 months I had to go to a plant and perform job within international workers team, my English was not enough to go there. What did Mike do? He used very good approach - by giving tasks to student to prepare presentation about something and let him tell what is inside it. In my point of view it helped me increase speed of my speech, increase amount of vocabulary and support to be more comfortable when you are speaking with foreigner. In conclusion, I want to say that Mike is great professional and I can recommend him as a good teacher!
Have you ever had lessons with teacher from another country? I had. I had 7 teachers from different parts of our world and I can say that teacher from America is the best one. His name is Mike.
It is hard to understand English with an accent. Some of my teachers had one. As for me, American English is the best one. Mike always corrects us when we say something incorrect but he does not force us to speak American English. We learnt a lot about American culture and traditions. It was more interesting than learning only grammar. Sometimes we watched videos and tried to understand them, and then we did exercises according to this video. Once we tried to put in order an English song, it was really hard but it was a good experience. We learnt some grammar; it is necessary but really boring. Our favorite kind of lesson is when we play English games. We repeat grammar, vocabulary, collocations and some English rock bands too. Maybe sometimes we were speaking so much instead of doing exercises but it was useful.
So, I can say that lessons with Mike were really interesting.
Thank you for this year.
To begin with, I would like to say that Mike is the best foreign teacher that I have ever had. I can say it with no doubt, because I have had an experience with many foreign teachers. Most of them were boring, some of them didn't even know English well, but Mike is different.
For example, he is the only one, who have had contact with his students outside the educational building. We were going out together, sitting in cafes, watching movies and etc. Another good thing about Mike is his simplicity in communication. Because of it, his lessons are interesting and during them you can speak with him openly and aboveboard.
To sum up, Mike is brilliant teacher with interesting charisma. You wouldn't be bored ever with him!
I'd like to share with you my experience of studying English with the help of a very good person and interesting teacher Mike who was teaching me the English language last year. To start with, it's always fascinating to learn something new about different cultures. So, having lessons with a native speaker (for example with Mike) is a great chance to get to know about it more authentically. In addition, Mike's lessons are so much fun so studying English becomes entertaining, lively and easy. Btw, Mike always explains everything, for example a word which you meet(hear/see) for the first time in your life and don't know its translation. Moreover, I truly believe that talking to a native speaker has huge impact on student's speech, it improved mine. It also helps to talk faster and even think in English. Taking everything into account, I am thankful to Mike for teaching me English these 6 months (which were quite productive) and grateful for being a good friend.
Hi everyone, my name is José Valderrama, I’m from Ecuador, I met Teacher Mike in Nazaret High School. The first day I saw him I thought he looks strict, he got into the class room and told us that we couldn't speak Spanish. if we spoke spanish, we would lose 1 point for every word we said. the thing was serious, it was the first time that we had that rule in our English class. well, the first time that our grades were in danger. Then we started, at first we couldn’t express ourselves without speaking at least a few worlds in Spanish, so we didn't have the best grades haha, we had to try harder. That year I had the best English teacher I ever had, I learned and practiced a lot. Now I am finishing my pregrade in medicine at Central University of Ecuador and i didn't have to go to English lessons because I Approved English exam. One normal day, I was at the hospital and an Egyptian woman went to the hospital. nurses and doctors got crazy, because anybody could understand what she was saying. so, I thought "it's my time", I spoke to her in English and we started to have a conversation. She told me that she was in pain, contractions, and that she had lost amniotic fluid. I stayed with her all the time and I attended her childbirth. I just can say thank you teacher Mike because you made us practice, and that made the difference.
When I first arrived to a new high school, I was very afraid of everything, I didn't know how to deal with my new teachers.
Mike was my first english teacher there and he made me love the language because of his way of teaching by sharing with us his life experiences, and telling jokes all the time. He really was interested in teaching us the perfect way of pronunciation, I remember that he was correcting me all the time, and that helped me so much. Mike is now my friend more than a teacher, I consider him like my second father, he is always trying to help you in all ways, you can tell him everything and he is always going to listen. I really miss him and I always wish him the best.
It's such a great honor to be a student in Mike's class and thank teachers believe me to comment . So i will disinterestedly comment.
Firstly, Mike is a benevolent and kind man. No matter what you say ,he always listen to it patiently and carefully even though the sentence has some mistakes about grammar or pronunciation . He helps us to fix them and make the sentences better. Secondly, the ways of his teaching are perfect. He gives us a subject which we don't know how to have a good conversation, but he teaches us to imagine and think. Because of that, we can say something logically and much more interesting. The last but not least, the point of his teaching has always made me feel optimistic and have some good spirit. He encourages us that if you know clearly what you want to do and set about doing it systematically, all is possible. As I mentioned before, I wanna say: Thank you so much.
And now, we as students are looking forward with great anticipation to his class, and at the same, we hope he can teach us again.
Because of the epidemic, we have to study online. We followed Mike to learn oral English lessons. Mike is very responsible and his class is very interesting. Everyone in our class have chance to express ourselves, practice our oral language. In the final exam, we use what we learned, get the good results. We all appreciate Mike and we spent a happy term.
The teacher’s pronunciation is standard, can play the demonstration function to the student. Teacher has basic English skills, and the teaching style is friendly and natural. Teacher can use skillfully language description and questions and other ways to create a situation, so that students can have a positive attitude into the learning. Teachers' doubts effectively stimulate students' interest in learning and thirst for knowledge, so that students can participate in learning autonomously without psychological pressure, making students have sufficient knowledge. The space showcases are individuality and competence, while the teachers play a leading role. Throughout the whole class, students are enthusiastic about learning, teachers and students interact well with each other and cooperate well with each other, thus achieving better learning effect. This teaching activity is an interactive combination of words, phrases and oral English. The teacher pays attention to the cultivation of students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, which effectively improves the students' comprehensive English ability. The teacher can well grasp the students' attention and concentrate on learning in the teaching process. The purpose of teaching is clear and the key points are prominent. The students' activities are full and play a wide range. The teacher's attitude is warm, there will be timely answers to questions. So, we can learn knowledge clearly and learn quite well.
Under your guidance, my spoken English has improved a lot. Every spoken topic is very funny and your pronunciation is amazing. Mike is very careful in his class. He can tell us a lot about what we need to know and correct our grammar and pronunciation mistakes. I love Mike's class.
Mike's class is very interesting. I take a lot of other classes before Mike's class. To be honest i am very tired and sleepy before class. But everytime i finish Mike's class, i feel very happy and relax. The teacher has a very special voice, i think I would like to understand what he says more seriously, which also makes me progress. Mike is the most responsible foreign teacher i have ever met. He always corrects our mistakes in oral expressions in time. I have learned a lot during the period of studying with Mike, he makes me want to expree myself more diligently. However, if the teacher can remember my name i wil be very happy. Finally, It's a great honor and pleasure to meet you.
I think that Mike's lecture style is humorous and can give students enough time to discuss topics. He is very kind and often encourages students to speak more. Mike's pronunciation is good. I learned a lot in his class. He also point out our mistakes in time. Under his guidance, my spoken english has improved a lot. Every spoken topic is very funny, pronunciation is very good.
In class, Mike's class is very interesting, I can practice my spoken English well, and in the process of it, Mike can correct my pronunciation, allowing me to realize i am wrong, at the same time i can practice my listening in class, throush the communication with the teacher, I can improve my listening ability very well. Is active and interesting learning environment to gain knowledge.
Teacher Mike is the best teacher that a student could have. He teaches us from the heart, besides teaching us English, he taught me the importance of values, with classes with interactive exercises that make us want to learn as much as we can, he made me get interested in the language. His interaction with us, he made me feel confident. He always came with a smile on his face and made us feel happy too. He always took care of our pronunciation and our writing and if we could not understand something he explained to us until we got the idea. All in all, he is the best teacher and the best person that somebody could meet.