English Tutoring in Cascais
A large share of the children in English-medium schools in Cascais speak something else at home: Portuguese, French, Dutch, German, the languages of a very mixed community. They pick up spoken English quickly, sound entirely fluent within a year or two, and then run into a wall when the school starts assessing academic writing. The fluency hides the gap, from teachers and from parents alike, until the marks say otherwise. Arranja Já sends a tutor to your home, between the centre, the Parede, Birre and Alcabideche, and works on exactly that gap, without touching the fluency the child already has.
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About our service in Cascais
The first thing we do is separate conversational English from academic English, because families tend to treat them as one thing. A child can run a playground negotiation flawlessly and still lack the vocabulary of comparison, cause, qualification and evidence that an essay requires. That academic register is learned, not absorbed, and in a class where most children have it already, nobody teaches it explicitly. We build it deliberately, with the vocabulary of argument, the structure of a paragraph and the conventions of citing evidence, using the student's own assignments as material rather than invented exercises, because the feedback then applies to work that is actually being marked. The second thing is deciding which qualification fits. English as a Second Language and First Language are different courses with different demands, and children who are socially fluent are often entered for the harder one on the strength of how they sound. Sometimes that is right. Sometimes it costs them a grade they needed for a later application. We give an honest assessment of where the student's writing actually sits, which is a more reliable basis for that decision than how confidently they speak. We give the assessment and the family decides; what we will not do is let the decision rest on an impression. The third is the errors nobody has corrected. Children who learned English by immersion accumulate fixed mistakes, often transferred from the home language, which survive fluency and appear in every piece of written work. We keep a personal list and work through it, since knowing the rule is not enough when the wrong form comes out automatically under time pressure. Each one takes a few weeks of consistent correction before the right version becomes the one that appears first. We work Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm, and we are closed on Sunday.
In Cascais, English tutoring usually covers:
Services Included
- Academic register taught explicitly: argument, qualification and evidence
- Paragraph structure and essay conventions, using the student's own work
- An honest assessment of which English qualification actually fits
- A personal list of fossilised errors, worked through one at a time
- Reading and comprehension at the level the school assessments assume
Areas We Serve
We cover the whole municipality: Cascais, Estoril, São João do Estoril, Parede, Carcavelos, Birre, Quinta da Marinha, Alcabideche, Manique and São Domingos de Rana.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Questions we get in Cascais:
My daughter sounds completely fluent. Why is her written English weak?
Because spoken fluency and academic writing are different competences. Immersion produces the first and not the second, which requires vocabulary of argument, paragraph structure and conventions that have to be taught. In a class where most children arrived with that register, it is rarely taught explicitly, so a fluent child can be left behind quietly.
She repeats the same mistakes although she knows the rules. Why?
They are fossilised errors: forms repeated for years without correction until they sound right to her. Knowing the rule does not help, because the wrong version comes out automatically under time pressure. They are fixed with a personal list, reviewed often, and consistent correction until the right form becomes the automatic one.
How much does English tutoring in Cascais cost?
It depends on the level, the objective, how often sessions run and where in the municipality you are, since travel counts. Regular correction of written work across the year differs from concentrated preparation for an exam. Tell us the situation and we will send a no-obligation quote.
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Reviews from satisfied customers in Cascais and surroundings
"Serviço excelente e profissional. Recomendo vivamente!"
Catarina G.
Cascais
"Trabalho muito bem feito. Profissionais dedicados e simpáticos."
Carlos F.
Cascais
"Profissionais competentes e pontuais. Voltarei a contratar."
Patrícia T.
Cascais
"Excelente atendimento e resultado impecável. 5 estrelas!"
Rita C.
Cascais