I am very happy to be employed as an English teacher at Omeida because Omeida is a well organized and managed school which offers excellent facilities for teaching and a supportive and friendly environment.

I started teaching at Omeida in March 2010 and I have given English lessons to students in the lower, intermediate and advanced classes as well as conducting an Intermediate Business English course.

Every student has the goal to improve their oral, listening, writing and reading English skills so that they will be more valuable to an employer and or to their customers in the future.

Student’s confidence in learning is motivated by their teachers and I encourage students to ask questions as often as they like, recite dictation to their friends and have their friends give dictation back to them. In this way they are practicing speaking English clearly and can quickly find out where they are making mistakes.

I also encourage students to send me emails and I promise to reply to all their emails. I receive emails from ex-students who often ask me for advice which I am happy to give.

The other ways to improve their English is to communicate with their teachers outside of class time and also to speak to each other in English in their free time. Many students enjoy having a dinner party in the home of their foreign teacher. I also suggest that students write stories or write out conversations and have their teacher correct any mistakes.

More suggestions for learning English are: - Watching English movies, listening to the BBC news or other broadcasts in English on the internet, reading English stories and articles.  Review lessons taught during the week, ask teachers questions about anything which the student doesn’t fully understand.

Another way to improve English is to find a pen friend/pen pal to correspond with. There are many internet sites for pen friends/pen pals. 

I have been fortunate enough to travel to more than 26 countries and since being in China I have enjoyed visiting Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Suzhou, Weijiao, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Guiyang, Dali, Liajiang, Shangri-la and Shenzhen as well as Xingping and Fuli. 

澳大利亚人，曾在澳洲移民局担任过签证负责人，公司行政经理助理，人事顾问等职位。她阅历丰富，从1974年到至今，先后去过全球的26个国家，并在马来西亚、菲律宾等亚洲国家教过不同国家学员的英语，拥有TESOL证书。她的课堂集教书与育人为一体，既严谨，又实用。风趣幽默与严格要求并重的讲课风格造就了她高满意率的课堂，平易近人兼豁达大度的性格成就了她独特的人格魅力。她的职业目标是：将学员成功培养成国际性的英语人才。

在Dianne看来，信心对英语学习来说是非常重要的，同时课后还要跟外教还有中教多多交流，多多练习写作，经常写一些生活中的故事和平时的对话练习，这样对于英语学习会有帮助。

观看英语电影，或者听一些BBC新闻，或者是其他的一些英语广播，阅读一些英语故事或是文章对英语学习也是很有帮助的。温故而知新，经常复习老师上过的课文对学习会很有帮助。

学员都这么说，跟Dianne在一起，总是让人倍感亲切。 

Dianne 对中国文化很感兴趣，看Dianne在向大家Show 她的剪纸呢。 

和蔼可亲的Dianne，正在鼓励，引导学员练习英语呢。

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