
One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Brian Knox will be happy to arrange your first ESL lesson.
Brian Knox
- Hourly rate $35
- Response Time 1h
- Number of students 44

$35
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- ESL
- English vocabulary
- English speaking
- English reading
- English listening
- English phonetics
Take your English to the next level, while having lots of fun? Yes, let's! I am a professional actor / ESL tutor and accent reduction coach. Together, let's learn to speak expressive eloquent English.
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Brian Knox will be happy to arrange your first ESL lesson.
About Brian Knox
Private ESL tutor (TEFL from Oxford seminars 2018) with 3 years teaching experience, using performance theatre and film acting as a basis for learning English as a second language. Professional film actor with 49 IMDB credits: (BFA acting - University of Alberta 1987). Currently AJARN / lecturer at Srinakharinwirot University International College of Sustainability, and ESL for political sciences in Bangkok Thailand. In 2021, I created and filmed an 8 module online English for Business course for Future Skill Thailand, and designed and taught ESL for policing to the Royal Thai police department in Bangrak Bangkok, September 2019.
About the lesson
- All Levels
- French
- English
- Spanish
- +2
All languages in which the lesson is available :
French
English
Spanish
German
Russian
I'm a professional film and theatre actor with over 35 years experience in film tv and theatre (49 credits IMDb), inspired to use my experience as a communicator and performer for your English lessons. With theatre sports, improv and active participation, we can jump right in to a scene or improvisation using the English language. This is excellent for practicing the rhythm of English, as we play characters in a film, or explore language while improvising a scene together. I use fun, interactive ways for you learn and understand the sounds, rhythm and feeling of speaking English like a Native speaker. All this means having an authentic and fun experience, and learning faster.
I am currently in Bangkok Thailand (11-14 hours time difference), so please allow extra time for me to respond to your request.
I am excited to hear from you and what you looking for as a student, so why not book your free trial lesson today and see if we are a good fit!
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Perfect! He is the best teacher I had in my life, caring understanding, beautiful energy. Sessions are a lot of fun. It moves me through my emotions of discomfort to get the best out of me.
As always with love,
V- I was delighted and refreshed to meet Vincent; he has a wonderfully kind, compassionate and curious energy, and I believe that with mindful practice and repetition, Vincent can easily develop an excellent eloquent personal style in English. Thank you for reaching out to me; I am honoured to help!
Perfect! Best THE best tutor
Perfect! A solid approach to teaching
- Of course, it was my pleasure to meet
ULAD online and to share my ideas with him about how to improve communication skills in the English Language. I am looking forward to offering some useful insight based on my experience and craft as an actor, in addition to my developing practice as a teacher and coach.
Perfect! Great session with Brian - he gave me speaking exercises that made me more conscious of how I speak and express my thoughts! Highly recommended instructor!
- I very much enjoyed meeting Ramon, he has a delightful expressive energy and speaks English quite well already. I am quite certain that with listening and intentional practice he can improve his clarity, expression and eloquence in the English language.
Perfect! This first session was excellent and corresponds perfectly to what I am looking for in terms of method and technique to improve my pronunciation
- I was delighted to meet Jean-Baptiste, and to have the opportunity to share my ideas. I believe that through listening, repetition and actor actions, he can learn the sounds, placement and rhythms of eloquent North American English. By 'over-acting' and having fun, I am sure that Jean-Baptiste can quickly bring these new language skills into his muscle memory when speaking English.
Perfect! Great experience, very enjoyable working with Brian. Great personality.
- I really enjoyed Marina's energy and enthusiasm and look forward to helping her expand her range of expression and skills using the English language. I am certain that with practice and repetition I can help Marina cultivate an excellent and eloquent speaking style.
Perfect! Very eye opening , fun and interesting approach to accent reduction!
- It was a pleasure to join Anish by Zoom and offer a first lesson today. He already speaks English very clearly, and I am quite certain that techniques from acting and the theatre can help him further build his communication skills in English, with increased vocal range, longer phrases and use of pauses and tone, as well as speaking with a more native North American rhythm and emphasis.
Perfect! I had a very enjoyable experience with Brian Knox on our first tryout online lesson, which was over what I expected. Brian Knox has many strengths on teaching. He is passionate, responsive, punctual, etc. He specializes in teaching pronunciation and tone based on his professional film and theatre actor background, which is a great benefit for English language learners. What I appreciate the most is that he is very understanding and adaptable to cater the demands of students. I was inspired and never bored in his lesson. Strongly recommend!
- I was delighted to meet Cecilia online for the first time, and have a poignant lesson with her. I discovered that she has an intelligent, driven energy with a passion for authentic conversation. I believe that with mindful practice and study, she can soon become an excellent and confident communicator in English.
Perfect! The first class with Brian was great as he structured it so well like real English classes while I thought this was just a class with normal conversations in English.
- I was delighted to meet Yota by Zoom and spend an hour working with him. I noticed that he is an excellent listener and very receptive to the suggestions that I made; I believe that with practice and repetition, he can easily improve his spoken English and adopt a clear, well spoken North American style of English.
Perfect! He is very professional, patient, and a good listener which is very helpful if you want to improve your accent and overall your verbal expression, he uses Acting methods to help you, increase your confidence expressing yourself.
- I loved meeting Raquel and hearing her story, as well as her dreams for a future as a screenwriter and artist in the motion picture industry. She is intelligent and passionate, and I am quite certain that with study and practice, Raquel can achieve an excellent and elegant writing and speaking style in English.
Perfect! Brian incorporated a lot of training methods from acting and performing into the lesson, which I found super helpful for an ESL learner to really open up the mouth and get a sense of English rhythm. He is well prepared, organized, and able to analyze from a linguistical point of view. I must say I am benefited more than I expected.
- I very much enjoyed Rita, who is educated, enthusiastic and well spoken. With practice and repetition, I am sure that she will soon have a wonderfully elegant native Canadian manner of speaking.
Perfect! Very good tutor!
- I really enjoyed meeting Deep and teaching both ESL an acting at the same time. She is enthusiastic and willing to learn. I'm quite certain that with practice and repetition, Deep will achieve a more Native English sound and an authentic presence as an actor.
Perfect! It was very interesting. Brian has a love of language that is infectious :)
- It was delightful to meet and share with Shan, who I found well spoken and quite advanced with her English pronunciation already. I believe that with mindfulness and continued practice of details and phrasing, Shan will develop an elegant and well spoken communication style in English. BKM
Perfect! I have been studying English with Brian for some time. He is an actor and also an earnest and interesting English teacher. In the class, he is good at using many different ways of teaching. After the class, he always gives me lots of resources about the lesson, including the lesson video, his detailed comments, new vocabularies with their meanings. I highly recommend Brian to everyone who wants to improve their English.
- Andy is a very enthusiastic student with a positive personal energy and is very motivated to improve his English. Teaching him was excellent and fun!
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I have had the opportunity to work with Brian as his professional performance agent and booker. Brian has an innate ability to convey at multiple levels to teach the average up.to the advanced student. As a professional acting teacher and coach, I have watched Brian teach his acting students from ground zero up to the very advanced level. His kind and loving aporoach makes Brian a top notch sought after teacher. If you are looking for a strong nurturing instructor, one will certainly excel under the guidance of this highly skilled teacher. I would recommend Brian over and over again. He is highly respected at Walkerville School of Drama, in Canada and abroad. I have trusted Brian's professionalism for 15 years and hold the utnost respect for him as a teacher, performer and friend!
The 60 minutes spent in private class with Mr. Brian is not only educative, but his method of teaching infused with humor has led to a significant improvement in me overall performance.That 's the reason why I
rank him as the most desired english teacher. /NawapolI have known Brian since we studied in Oxford Seminars in Vancouver in 2018. Brian was the most creative in our class. His lessons were interesting, educative and fun. We always keep in touch after our graduation. Brian enjoys teaching and his students like him a lot.
He is an incredible teacher. In the first class, he motivated me to work harder. He pulled out many prepared scripts and asked me to practice. It was an unparalleled experience. He is not like any other ESL teacher. His teaching methods are exciting and fun. He also recorded the class and reported to me what to improve. I decided to continue taking his class. I highly recommend him if you want to speak like a native.
I highly recommend Brian Knox McGugan for an English teacher. As an Assistant Professor of Department of Political Science at Srinakharinwirot University, in 2019-2020, I invited him to be guest lecturer in my English for Political Science class. He is a well organized teacher who develops inspiring relationships with his students. His ability to connect with his students and his talent at teaching simple concepts, as well as more advanced in World Politics topics during Covid-19 crisis are both truly superior. Brian accomplishes all these tasks with great initiative and positive attitude. I do recommend Brian to you without reservation.
Brian and I have known each other for 2 years. He tutored me in 2019 when I had immigrated in Canada. Brian is an incredible teacher, he uses different approaches in his tutoring based on the needs of each student. He is a great listener and teacher, very friendly and educated. He helped me a lot with grammar, everyday conversation topics, idioms, and even with the engineering vocabulary as this is my professional field. Each session with Brian was different - we went to the library, recorded videos, listened to music, shopped together, and attended social events.
I highly recommend Brian to anybody who would like to learn English and gain a great experience!
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