Welcome to RGrantEnglish.com!
Meet your instructor, Richard Grant
With a masters of teaching English (MATESOL) and more than twenty years of experience teaching adults, Richard has great ideas to help you be successful learning to communicate in English!
Richard’s teaching experiences range from the USA to Germany to China to Central America, from teaching beginning students to training English teachers.
Visit one of our classes and see if we can find a fit for you.
Training
Topics:
Structure Chants – Teachers can teach Structure Chants to dramatically improve student output in subject-verb agreement and to explain how to form present and past tense verbs. Train the tongue and the ears for subject verb agreement, before ever teaching the grammar! “Richard’s course was a machete to get through the other English lessons.” Check out our video library to get an idea of what Structure Chants look like.
Teacher In-Service Training (Capacitationes) – Local school districts need training events for teachers. From one session presentations to full-day English teaching seminars, local teachers can get classroom techniques, lessons, activities, and a better sense of English teaching.
Other Topics as Requested
Locations visited in the past:
- Santa Elena School District, Santa Elena, La Paz, Honduras – Full day, In-Service training for public school teachers, k-12
- Doumen Department of Education, Doumen, Guangdong China – in association with Huntington University – Seminars and classroom demonstrations for public school teachers, k-12
- Zhengzhou Department of Education, Zhengzhou, China – in association with ELIC – Summer Workshop for public school teachers, 6-12
- Mississippi Adult Education – In-Service Training for ESL Program Instructors
- Mississippi Baptist English Outreach – In-Service Training for Volunteer English Instructors
Tutorials
- www.usalearns.org – This website has seven courses at various levels. Using a lot of repetition, especially at the beginning levels, this course has proven tremendous, as students using these courses have shown the greatest progress. Sign up for Richard Grant’s supervision, and each class completed at an 80% success rate or better will receive and certificate.
- Oxford Bookworms Library – We keep more than 40 titles of simplified English classics for you to borrow, read, and discuss. Great stories, known as classics to US students, and a great way to practice reading while building vocabulary, these come in six levels. From TOM SAWYER to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, contact us for titles and availability. Some students prefer to read on their own. Others like to read with a tutor.
- WhatsApp Questions and Answers – Many students just need to ask a quick question. If their dictionary or online investigation leaves them without an answer, current and former students often contact Richard Grant on WhatsApp for a quick reply.
Classes
Meridian, Mississippi, USA – ESL Classes, Beginning and Intermediate, Northcrest Baptist Church, Wednesdays at 6:15. A dynamic English program and community. Children’s activities provided. Contact Jay Nelson in the church office.
Heart to Honduras Staff Development – Santa Elena, Santa Barbara, Honduras: The www.usalearns.org online class with face-to-face practice classes helps the staff at this non-profit communicate with the visitors of other countries who arrive to participate in community development.
Salt and Light Staff Development – Peña Blanca, Honduras: The www.usalearns.org online class with face-to-face practice classes helps the staff at this non-profit communicate with the visitors of other countries who arrive to participate in medical attention to the underserved.
El Cedral, Las Vegas de Santa Bárbara, Honduras: Side by Side 1 provides a basic English background for young coffee producers to communicate with coffee buyers and tourists from around the world.
El Cedral, Las Vegas de Santa Bárbara, Honduras: New Readers Press’s Novel Scenes provides English practice for young coffee producers who have already completed a basic course. The goal is to communicate with coffee buyers and tourists from around the world.
COMPLETED
Santa Elena, La Paz, Honduras – May-November 2023: Side By Side 1, Richard Grant teaching, in cooperation with La Distrital de Educación de Santa Elena, and Catracha Coffee. Wed/Thu/Fri at 4:00 at Catracha Coffee.
Ario de Rosales, Michoacán Mexico, SIDE BY SIDE 1 – March-July 2024 at the Casa de Cultura. March – July 2024. This beginners class developed a strong vocabulary and established confidence in using verb structures. In cooperation with the Casa de Cultura and Marvin Sosa.
Ario de Rosales, Michoacán Mexico, CONVERSATION CLUB – March-July 2024 at the Cafe Antiqua Coffee Shop. This is an advanced class, provided a fun place for proficient English speakers to practice their skills and learn something new!
Media
Please visit Richard’s Youtube Channel for teaching videos. Click Here.