An Ulsterman, Paul did his schooling in Belfast before going on to Trinity College, Cambridge to read Classics. After his first teaching post at Geelong Grammar in Australia, Paul returned to Europe to continue his musical studies in Copenhagen with Jorma Panula and subsequently in Italy at the Rossini Conservatory. More recently Paul returned to Italy after a period in Germany this time in a commercial capacity with a high-end fibre glass importer.

Hello, My name is Virgil McCoy. I am from Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States. I have lived there since I was a child. I have worked as a consultant for food manufacturers and warehouses for the last eight years, and have done volunteer teaching for a non profit organization, of various subjects, for ten years. My wife and I are both teachers and are here with our twelve year old son. We enjoy exploring Kyiv and different parts of Ukraine in our spare time. I have many hobbies, but photography is one of my favorites. Come join ELC and enjoy the fun of learning English. I look forward to seeing you in my class.

My name is Paul, I'm from the centre of England (not London) and I am a new teacher at ELC. I have been working and living in Kyiv for the last year and enjoy it here. I'm interested in several things, such as watching sport, films and computing. Most of all, of course, I'm interested in language. This is the reason I qualified for CELTA and started teaching English: I love language. Hopefully if I teach you, you will find this out.

Hi guys! I'm from Cape Town, South Africa. I enjoy teaching and look forward to seeing you in the classroom!!!

My name is Robert Tibault (Tibo), I was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. I have lived all around the USA, and graduated with a B.S. in International Affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I have lived 5 years in Moscow running my own small business. Moving to Kiev I decided to try teaching. I have traveled extensively throughout the world and enjoy being in Ukraine.

Hello everyone! My name is April Lou J. Cabuena from the pearl of the orient seas, Philippines. I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education major in English last March 2008. I also got my professional teaching license that same year. Teaching has always been my passion. I have been an ESL teacher to Filipinos, Korean and Chinese students both in the classroom and online. To be here in Ukraine and be part of your learning experience is an honor to me.

Hello, My Name is Kim McCoy. I am from Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States. I have taught several different classes as a volunteer. I enjoy teaching English and look forward to teaching you.

I am Michael Dean Montross. Dean Montross is my father. I was born in Fresno, California. I have spoken English all my life and was raised in the north of Washington State where American English is perfect, although I speak fast and slur my words. I attended Walla Walla University, I am a Biology major and enjoy nature as a result. I like studying Indo-European mythologies, I love ancient and prehistoric European history, and enjoy languages. I know Spanish, and am currently working on Russian.

Elena graduated from Donetsk National University. She worked as a teacher of English and French at school, then she taught English at the foreign languages department of Berdyansk Pedagogical University. Now she is teaching English at German philology department of Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences and is a postgraduate. The theme of her thesis is “New Zealand dialect of English”. “I graduated from a musical college and my hobby is to play the piano and sing in English.”

Sergey Antonovich graduated from an institute of foreign languages in 1982. After graduating he worked at many educational establishments of Russia and Ukraine. Now he is teaching applied disciplines of English at German philology department of Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences and grammar in ELC.

Svetlana Petrovna graduated from Kiev State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (French and English) in 1973. She received the second education at Kiev Shevchenko State University in 1984. Qualification of Philologist and Teacher of the Russian language and literature.” She worked as an interpreter for foreign citizens and as a teacher of Russian as a foreign language at Kiev Engineering and Building Institute. Svetlana worked in Vietnam at the Hanoi branch of Pushkin Institute of the Russian language. Vietnam Council of ministers awarded her the medal “ Friendship” and her name was included into “The Golden book”, 27.05.87. (reg.# 282). Since 1998 she has been working as a teacher of English. At ELC Svetlana Petrovna teaches Russian as a foreign language.

Lilia was born in Kiev. In 2005 she graduated from the Kiev Dragomanov National Teachers Training University, where she got the qualification of a teacher of English language and foreign literature. The last year at the university Lilia started working as a private teacher. She taught both schoolchildren and adults. Then she dicided to enrich her teaching experience by working in the ELC. "I enjoy my recent job because a foreign language is also one of my hobbies. Studying a foreign language we get to know native speakers culture and mentality."

Julia was born and grew up in Siverland where there's a town of Pryluky in Chernihiv region. Since her childhood she's been in love with the English language and studied it persistently beginning right at school. And there was no doubt choosing the profession as there was a desire to reveal the beauty of this interesting and a fortiori so demanded language in our society to other people. After finishing school she followed with the years of studying at Pryluky Pedagogical School and Hlukhiv State Pedagogical University. The last year at the Institute she started to work as a teacher of English at a local lycee with advanced study of English. The pupils were kids of different age, pupils of different grades from the second up to the tenth. Having graduated from the University she worked at the Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences at the subdepartment of Germanic Languages. Now all her time is devoted to the ELC students. "I enjoy being the FAVOURITE teacher who is pleasant to refer to over and over again!" :)

Oksana's education: Kyiv State Linguistic University.Experience: 10 years of successful teaching at different Kyiv specialised schools, European University. Currently I'm both a teacher of English and a translator at Kyiv National medical university.I enjoy travelling. I'll do anything to сome up what I want. I also value honesty and reliability

Iryna is a professor of Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko and Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Science. She got her PhD in Institute of Philology of Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Her major is Russian and Ukrainian as foreign languages. "Teaching is my life. It's so nice to give people knowledge and see students' happy faces when they do well in their studying of foreign languages".

Hello, my name is Andrew Kravchenko. I was born and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2006 I graduated from the National Drahomanov Pedagogical University. Since that year I’ve been working as English teacher at Drahomanov University, Shevchenko University and ELC. Working during the day with students at Universities makes me happy and exhausted, but working in the evenings with ELC students makes me happy, exhausted and proud of you … your result in English Learning is the best rewarding for me. Wish you success reaching English.

In 1997 I entered and in 2002 graduated from Nizhyn State Gogol Teachers' Training University, Foreign Languages Department, got a diploma of a Teacher of English and German (with honors). I also got a Qualification of a Practical psychologist in the educational establishments. After graduating from the university, I stayed to work in the Foreign Languages Department, chair of the English language and the methods of teaching and taught practical phonetics and practical English. In 2005 I passed a qualifying examination for the candidate degree (with honors) in Nizhyn State Gogol University.Teaching experience is 4 years.

I am Russian. I was born in Samara. I am keen on English from the very childhood. At the age of 3 I could "sing songs" together with "Beatles":) My almamater is Kuban State Technological University. Now I study English philology at Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Science. My hobbies - conducting choir, clasical vocal, window-painting, kayaking. My students are my everything.

Hello! I am pleased to get acquainted with you on these pages!

You must be wondering about the education I have. I graduated from Ukrainian College of Art and Science with the Bachelor’s degree in Philology. I also have a Master’s degree in translation which I received at Kiev International University!

In life I am a very simple person.  I love nature, Ukrainian people, hiking, and I take a great interest in cultures and languages of the world surrounding me! Wisdom declares: "You are someone as many times as many languages you know!" I wish you lots of success, creative enthusiasm, enough time for studying English, and also incessant personal development!

I’ll see you in class!

Hello, My name is Anastasia. I was born and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2008 I graduated from Kyiv National Linguistic University. But I have been working as a teacher since my third year at the University. I will never stop teaching as I really appreciate my work and I am genuinely interested in what I am doing. For me some of the most important things in the world are awareness and learning – wanting to know every day of my life more and more and more. Because every time you learn something new you become a new person to some extent. It is great that you have also decided to learn English – you will never regret about it. I wish you all the luck in the world! Bon voyage in English!

Hello, my name is Valeriy Sabirov. I have been teaching English at ELC - both general English and Business English, both in groups and privately since September 2008. My first education was in civil engineering and in this part of my life I worked at the Institute of Mechanics at the Academy of Science of Ukraine, served as a military engineer at Baikonur in Kazahstan. But as long as I remember myself English was always my hobby. Later it became my second profession. I've got a diploma of the teacher of English language and literature at Kiev Boris Grinchenko Pedagogical Univesity teaching English there at the same time. For the time being I've been teaching English for more than 15 years, both at the institutions and privately. Some of my ex-pupils live and successfully work in different walks of life in the USA, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany.  Join ELC - you will love it here! Why? Well, because we have professional management, professional teachers with appropriate attitude and if you study general English, you will be using one the best modern English textbooks - Top Notch and Summit (for higher levels).

Hello everyone! My name is Olga Danylchenko and I have become a member of the ELC team recently. Teaching at ELC is an admirable opportunity since I have a chance to share my knowledge with students, to gain working experience and of course, to meet new wonderful people. Wish all the students of ELC beneficial and interesting classes!!!

I was born in Kyiv. I studied successfully at Romanic Germanic faculty of Kyiv State University named after T.G.Shevchenko where   I was certified as Philologist, teacher of English.  After graduation, I had been working at KPI as a translator. I took part in selection of scientific articles available for given assignments. My job dealt with translation of scientific proceeding reported in different international conferences held in our country and abroad as well. Later on I have joined the group of employees of KPI’s Computer Centre, who participated in supplying software to launch the space Shuttle BURAN. During the cooperation with KPI I have provided more than 400 translations of various articles in different branches of science. After the project displacement I began to work as a senior teacher at the foreign languages Chair of KPI.

I am married, have 2 adult sons and a little granddaughter.

Hello, my name is Natalie. I love teaching English and I love learning other foreign languages as well. It makes me happy when you see the results of our mutual fun ( read hard work)))). I am fond of collecting wonderful moments of our life. Teaching English is a good example. Let’s master English together

Hello,my name is Iryna Frankovskaya. I graduated from Kyiv National Linguistic University. I'm fond of reading and dancing. I'm interested in Stylistics of English and teaching methodology. I'm looking for new and effective ways of teaching English. I always think to myself,"Would I be enjoying if I were student in this class?"I'll find the ways that work best for you.

Hello! My name is Helen. I was born in Kiev. Most of my life I spent in Buchach,a small town in the western part of Ukraine. I graduated from National Aviation University, Linguistics department. I'm fond of travelling and reading. As all good teachers must be, I am cheerful, patient and organised. I enjoy my work and believe my students can see that.