SAT and ACT English
Reading, Writing and Language: what the sections reward, what they quietly penalise, and how to work to time without losing accuracy.
SAT · ACT
English, taught through ideas worth talking about.
Native English and Spanish speaker with a philosophy background. You will not spend an hour repeating drills — you will spend it saying something you actually mean, and your English will get sharper because the conversation demands it.
In Spanish¿Por qué crees que eso es justo?
In EnglishBecause fairness and equality aren’t the same thing — and that gap is where the whole problem lives.
An illustration of the method, not a transcript. Content and language-integrated learning: the subject carries the lesson, the language comes with it.
MethodCLIL
Structured, but relaxed.
Content and language-integrated learning means the lesson is about something. We take a real subject — an argument, an article, a decision you have to make at work — and work in English because that is what the subject requires.
The first session is an assessment and a plan. I find out where your English actually is, what you need it for, and what is getting in the way. After that, lessons adapt to your goals and how you learn rather than to a fixed syllabus.
The focus throughout is fluency, pronunciation, and expressing complex ideas clearly — the things that decide whether people follow you, not whether you pass a worksheet. Lessons run online, on GMT+2 / GMT+3 time, and I am flexible about when.
FocusSubjects
What I teach.
AP English Language and Literature
Rhetorical analysis, argument and close reading, at the level the exam actually grades — and the essay habits that carry into university.
AP Lang · AP Lit
Conversational English
Fluency, confidence and the vocabulary to hold your own in a real discussion.
All levels
Professional communication
Job interview preparation, business English, and speaking precisely under pressure.
Interview prep
English for beginners
Starting from the ground up, in English or through Spanish where that helps.
A1 – A2
English literature
Reading closely, and writing about what you read without hedging.
Reading & writing
RecordBackground
Where this comes from.
PhD candidate, Contemporary Philosophy and Classics
University of Barcelona
in progress
MA, Ancient Philosophy
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2025–2026
BA, Philosophy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022–2025
Native English speaker; Spanish to C2. Verified teaching certificate. Lesson and rating figures above are drawn from my public Preply profile, where the reviews themselves can be read.
NextBook
Book a lesson.
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per lesson
The first lesson is an assessment and a plan. Bring something you actually need English for — a document, a presentation, an exam date, an argument you keep losing.
Lessons on GMT+2 / GMT+3 time. Payment by PayPal to paypal.me/AlonsoJesusRodriguez; lessons booked through Preply are paid there instead.