About me
Alex Vlasov
Exam Trainer, EFL Specialist
“Teaching is my occupation, my career and my passion. I always wanted to be a teacher, even when I was a small kid, and I’ve never thought of doing anything else for a living.”
Experience
2019 - Present
GMAT Consulting - St. Petersburg
GMAT Trainer (individual lessons) and Academic advisor, GMAT Verbal Reasoning expert
2016 - 2020
MasterIELTS - St. Petersburg
Senior IELTS Trainer & Course Developer at MasterIELTS – leading education centre in St. Petersburg (Russia)
EGO-Round Centre - St. Petersburg
2017-2018
Corporate course creator; EFL Teacher (Native Speaker), Business English expert
ABC English - Moscow
2015 - 2017
EFL Instructor to all levels (Elementary – Advanced); IELTS team manager & IELTS Trainer
Speak UP Language Centre
2014 - 2016
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (Native Speaker); Senior EFL Teacher
Freelance
2009 - Present
EFL Teacher, Exam Trainer (GMAT, IELTS, CELPIP & BEC Preparation)
“Professional IELTS and GMAT trainer, native English speaker who does not stand still. Alex is constantly improving his skills, taking trainings and master classes on the exam structure and innovations. Alex’ classes are always dynamic and interesting, because he responsibly approaches the planning of each lesson in order to make them as productive as possible. Students appreciate Alex’s sociability and openness, qualities which allow the learners to quickly overcome the language barrier and speak English.”
– MasterIELTS
Education
TEFL
- TEFL Certification – Leeds, UK – 120-hour Teaching English as a Foreign Language course – 2012
- TEFL Certification (CALL specialist) – LoveTEFL, UK – 2016
Exam Preparation
- Teaching IELTS – advanced 120-hour course, Cambridge, UK
- IELTS Train the Trainer 60-hour course – British Council , Glasgow
- IELTS Certificate (2011) – Overall score – 8.5 (L ‑ 9; R ‑ 8; S ‑ 9; W ‑ 8.5)
- GMAT Certificate (2015) – 720/800
Business English
- Teaching Business English – 60-hour course, ITTO – 2016
- Business English Teaching Course – 120 hours, TEFL Academy – 2019
- KPMG K ‑ Foundation Certificate of completion – KPMG Training program
Higher Education
- University of Glasgow – Bachelor of Economics (Accounting & Finance)
- St. Petersburg Polytechnic University – Master of Economics (Accounting & Finance)
“You have prepared a great lesson plan, which is well staged and well suited to teaching the second conditional to a group of intermediate adults. You have prepared a good variety of tasks to challenge the students and to provide them with practise of all four skills. Your essay strongly supports your plan, and you have demonstrated that you know how to prepare and deliver a suitable and enjoyable grammar lesson to a group of adult learners. Congratulations!”
LoveTEFL Team
