Brixham, UK: A busy family home in Brixham, with a large comfortable room, bring your own laptop or sometimes use our computers. Warning: no television. locally, there are pebble beaches, a small lively town with active youth centre, a little further shopping centres, sandy beaches, historic cities, raw nature, theatres, cinemas, caving, surfing in the sea or up trees... Fantastic countryside, watersports and other activities available, look at http://www.torbay.world-guides.com/torbay_events.html
Type of Programme
One-to-one, personalised English tuition living full-board with the tutor's own family and in the tutor's own home, including local visits and excursions, meeting friends, neighbours and professional colleagues etc.
Type of House: Semi-Detached House in UK
Teaching Qualifications and Experience
University of Lancaster 1975-1978, BA hons. French and Yugoslav Studies 2i.
University of Belgrade: Institute for Foreign Languages. Proficiency in Serbo-Croat 1974
University of Athens: School of Philology: Greek to University entrance standard 1982
RSA Dip TEFL (theory only). British council Athens. 1990-91.
PGCE MFL University of Portsmouth 2000-2001
Hobbies and Interests
I am interested in opportunities for young people, I lead a Scout troop which involves survival skills, camping, protecting the environment, forging friendships with foreign troops and much more.
Excursions and Local Attractions
Brixham is a fishing port which offers numerous boat trips. There are pebble beaches and an outdoor salt-water pool in Brixham and sandy beaches in Paignton nearby. Around Torbay, there are facilities for watersports, including a water-park, sports centers, cinemas and many places of interest such as Agatha Christie's house, Greenway.
Torquay, Exeter and Plymouth have shopping centres.
To the north, Dartmoor is one of the wildest parts of England with feral ponies, beautiful for walking, picnicking and if it's hot, dipping in streams.
In Devon, we have everything from caving to tree-surfing.There are some unique places such as Totnes which must be the national centre for alternative lifestyle.
