Homestay with English lessons can be a good solution if you are very busy and have little time to visit Britain. Often you have the choice of 15, 20 or 25 hours of lessons per week with excursions or activities in the local area. Home tuition teachers will usually design a special course and excursion programme for you. Expect to learn 2 or 3 times more quickly than going to a traditional language school. Because learning this way can be very efficient, it is sometimes no more expensive than group lessons.

Living with your teacher also often means living in more comfortable accommodation and having really interesting activities, such as trips and excursions to local places of interest. There are homestay teachers all over the country with some in country areas and others in towns and cities.

Sometimes you can be placed with teachers who have similar interests or a related professional background because many home tutors had a full professional career before training to be language teachers.

If you don’t mind being in the north of England, you will have a better choice of teachers as demand for homestay teachers in cities like London or Oxford is usually very high.

Don’t forget to check that a home tuition agency is accredited by the British Council because this will help ensure high standards of accommodation and teaching.