If they volunteer to help you for free, that’s great. If you do well in your IELTS test, and go to live/study/work abroad, you will work in cultures where it is quite offensive to ask people to work for free. If you ask people to work for free, they are unlikely to put much effort into helping you. How will that benefit me if I give my courses away for free? Would you give your hard-earned cash away to strangers for nothing in return? I would be really interested to know how you will compensate me for my time and investment in you. You tell me that I should give you a free course. This would be very unfair to students who pay for my help. The people who pay for my courses, who have perhaps sacrificed something else in order to access my materials, would be pretty annoyed if they found out I was giving away free courses to anyone who asked. ‘How come he gets a free course, and I have to pay?’ If you pay for a teacher, the teacher will be able to help you more. By giving you my course for free, this will prevent me from making more courses and helping other people, because I will not be able to afford to do this. We all have to pay for things and we don’t all have the means. Unfortunately, I live in a country where I have to pay for everything on a credit card, because even a small cup of coffee costs $3.Įveryone has different circumstances. I totally sympathise, which is why I put so much free material on my website. I’m very aware of the difficulties some students face in their country and I’m sorry that this is the case. ‘But my country doesn’t have credit card facilities’ If a teacher’s skills have no value, why do you need a teacher? 7. That suggests that you think a teacher’s skills are worthless and of no real value. Would you expect to walk into a hairdresser’s, a garage, a nail bar, a dentist, a solicitor’s, a restaurant and get a free haircut, meal, treatment etc? Then why would you ask a teacher to give up their time for free? Being a student doesn’t entitle you to get everything for free. If teachers can’t earn money, they can’t help anyone. The return on investment is very small, believe me. They work long hours and have to learn all the tech, without any help. They do not have a huge company helping them sell their courses. Teachers work hard and are not the type of people who will take your money and run. Why do I sell my courses? I need to buy stuff too.ĭo you know many teachers who drive around in expensive cars, take expensive holidays and spend their time drinking cocktails on the beach? No I don’t either. Why do you need money? I guess because you need to buy stuff. Why do you need a job? I guess to earn money. Why are you studying IELTS? I guess to get a job. ‘But teachers should help people for free’ Free materials are there if you want them.Ī course gives you access to a teacher who has invested in their own training so that they can make sure you make progress. If you haven’t, then asking for a free course may be just a way of delaying or avoiding the hard work. You will get even more out of the course because you will have a head start. Have you already worked through all my free materials? If you have, great. I’m here to help you make progress, not excuses. This will save you time and money in the long-term.Ĥ. I’ve made sacrifices to make my course the best it can be. I’ve spent my time working on the materials so that I can help you. I’ve invested in my training and qualifications so that I can help you. You do not need to pay for a course.ĭo you suspect that it’s probably better than all the free stuff you’ve been looking at? Well you’re right. There are TONS of free IELTS materials online. This WILL help you improve your IELTS score. Knowing that you have paid for the course will give you greater commitment and a reminder to do the work required – you will feel guilty if you don’t. When you have invested money in a course, you are much more likely to take it seriously, to do the work it requires and to actually finish it.īecause if you didn’t finish it, you’d think you had wasted your money. This will not help you improve your IELTS score. You might even think that the course is worthless because it is free ( ‘Why would she just give a whole course away for free?‘) and it will probably sit in your inbox unused.Īnd all that time, money and effort that I spent making the course will be wasted. If you don’t pay for a course, it is likely that you will not value it. When things are free, we do not value them.
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