Former Instructor at a Top-ranked University

Vancouver English Tutor and Teacher of Literature, IELTS, LPI, SSAT, SAT, GRE, Medical Terminology, and English Provincial Exams 

Hi all!

Former instructor at a top-ranked university for over 10 years, I have private students from UBC, SFU, Langara, Capilano University and high school. If you need help in writing or test preparation, get in touch with me and you'll hear back from me soon.

Approaches:
High school and university levels of literary analysis
Writing persuasive, narrative, and expository essays
Writing literary reviews and research papers
Vocabulary acquisition
Advanced grammar in use
Speed reading
Meeting the criteria for writing the essays that meet or exceed teachers' expectations
Sample English Provincial exams (20 released exams)



Regards,

John   

British Council Certified IELTS Instructor
SAT Expert
Published Writer
Vancouver English Tutor (UBC Campus to Oakridge Area)
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778-triple9-7028
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Need Some Literature Analysis and Writing Assistance?

SHAKESPEARE:

1. Romeo and Juliet

2. Macbeth

3. Hamlet

4. Othello

5. King Lear

6. The Taming of the Shrew

7. Tempest

8. A Midsummer Night's Dream

John

Vancouver English Tutor
Burnaby English Tutor
Richmond English Tutor

englishprovincial@gmail.com 

Call: 778-triple9-7028

(if you'd like the fastest response, please either text the cell number or email)

Word 3082: Decussate

adjective
shaped like an X
• Botany (of leaves) arranged in opposite pairs, each pair being at right angles to the pair below

Word 3081: Mimesis

noun formal or technical
imitation, in particular
• representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature
• the deliberate imitation of the behavior of one group of people by another as a factor in social change
• Zoology another term for mimicry

Word 3080: Fanfaronade

noun
arrogant or boastful talk

Word 3079: Telegraphese

noun informal
the terse, abbreviated style of language used in telegrams

Word 3078: Smolt

noun
a young salmon (or trout) after the parr stage, when it becomes silvery and migrates to the sea for the first time

Word 3077: Epigone

noun ( pl. epigones or epigoni)
a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, esp. an artist or philosopher

Word 3076: Officinal

adjective chiefly historical
(of an herb or drug) standardly used in medicine

Word 3075: Metanoia

noun
change in one's way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion

Word 3074: Plaint

noun Brit. Law
an accusation; a charge
• chiefly poetic/literary a complaint; a lamentation

Word 3073: Cleat

noun
a T-shaped piece of metal or wood, esp. on a boat or ship, to which ropes are attached
• one of a number of projecting pieces of metal, rubber, or other material on the sole of a shoe, designed to prevent the wearer from losing their footing
• ( cleats) athletic shoes with a cleated sole, typically used when playing football
• a projection on a spar or other part of a ship, to prevent slipping
• a small wedge, esp. one on a plow or scythe

Word 3072: Hyperborean

noun poetic/literary
an inhabitant of the extreme north
• ( Hyperborean) Greek Mythology a member of a race worshiping Apollo and living in a land of sunshine and plenty beyond the north wind

Word 3071: Dithyramb

noun
a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, esp. one dedicated to Dionysus
• a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing

Word 3070: Lèse-majesté

noun
the insulting of a monarch or other ruler; treason

Word 3069: Naiant

adjective [ postpositive] Heraldry
(of a fish or marine creature) swimming horizontally

Word 3068: Palingenesis

noun
1. Biology the exact reproduction of ancestral characteristics in ontogenesis
2. rebirth or regeneration