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Thomas Berger
Band 8+ Writing Coach
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Nationality🇩🇪 GermanySpeaksEnglish, GermanQualificationsDELTA, PGCEIELTS experience9 years · ExaminerTeaching experience11 years · 3 countries
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About Thomas Berger
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Thomas takes students who are already at 7.0 in Writing and cannot see what is holding the last half band. Most of his work is cohesion, precision and cutting words that earn nothing.
Qualifications & experience
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Education
- University
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Highest degree
- MA / MSc
- Major / field of study
- English Linguistics
- Graduated
- 2010
IELTS credentials
- IELTS examiner
- Yes — Writing
- Years as an examiner
- 4
- Years specialising in IELTS
- 9
- Teaching certificates
- CELTADELTAPGCE
- Own IELTS band
- 9.0
Teaching history
- Taught at
- Goethe-Institut partner schools, StudyIELTS
- Taught in
- Germany, Austria, United Kingdom
- Students taught
- 1,700+
- Levels taught
- Upper-intermediateAdvanced
- IELTS modules
- AcademicUKVI
Specialisms
- Skill expertise
- WritingGrammar
- Strongest band targets
- 7.58.0+
- Class formats
- One-to-oneIntensiveMock test and feedback
- Teaching approach
- Sentence-level surgery — complex structures used accurately beat complex structures attempted
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