1:1/Small group private lessons for adults

Our courses are high quality, flexible, and fully customised. You can take them in-person at any of our British Council centres, at a location of your choice, or at your home. 

We offer:

• exclusive 1:1 English tuition – this allows you to interact more with your teacher
• small group English tuition – available for any number of students

We start by understanding your learning needs with a pre-course consultation. Next, based on your chosen days and times, we provide a teacher and create a flexible plan just for you.

The best teachers in the industry!

Our British Council team in Singapore has highly qualified teachers with at least the University of Cambridge's CELTA/DELTA teaching qualifications or the equivalent and years of experience. Our private lesson teachers are flexible and have local, international, industry, and skills-specific experience. They have worked with learners of all ages and levels. They also specialise in working with individuals, supporting you throughout your learning journey, and helping you achieve your desired results with personalised guidance and feedback.

We provide courses in the following areas and many more:

• Speaking and pronunciation courses
• Presentation skills and public speaking
• General English for all levels
• Business English 
• IELTS and Cambridge English test preparation
• Interview preparation
• Email or report writing
• Industry specific courses (pharmaceutical, financial, retail, hospitality, shipping and many more)

• four or more students, price available on request
• pre and post course assessment and consultation
• tuition from highly experienced/qualified teachers (University of Cambridge's CELTA/DELTA post-graduate teaching qualifications as a minimum)
• all British Council published teaching materials written by our highly experienced/qualified product heads and curriculum writers *
• detailed student reports (for courses 20 hours or over)
• student certification
• transportation costs ** (if not at any of our British Council centres)
• student welcome pack 
• subject to prevailing Goods and Services Tax (GST) 

* Charges may apply for courses requiring alternative published materials.
** Dependent on exact location. Minimum offsite lesson length of 90 minutes.  

• 'The benefit of studying 1:1 is that you can design the course and individual lessons very precisely to target the needs of individual learners. It can be a great option for busy students who are looking for a highly personalised and flexible approach.'
• 'Having taught high level executives in multinational companies for 15 years, I understand the importance of tailoring the lessons to each student’s perspective and specific context to help them identify and overcome their own personal linguistic challenges.'  
• 'I always look to not only make the most of the time in the lesson, but always give a lot of training, resources and guidance on how our students can build on this outside the class.'
• 'It’s great to see students go on to achieve their goals at the end of the course. Whether it is getting into the school or university they want, being offered the job they dreamed of or simply being able to chat confidently with their English speaking colleagues and friends'

• 'The teaching style is tailored well. It is adjusted based on my requirements and turns out to be really useful. It seems I am beginning to speak English directly without pre-translating in my mind.'
• 'I would like to highlight my great appreciation for the teacher’s patience, professionalism and correctness. I feel great progress in speech and my fear of speaking English in front of my bosses is decreasing. I am very pleased.'