For volunteers
Tools to support one learner at a time.
Get set up with Zoom, run a guided one-on-one citizenship session across a language gap, and send home easy practice links between sessions. Free, with no accounts to manage.
Before your first session
During your session · open this together
Guided 1:1 Citizenship Session Opens tool
Run your whole session here. Start the video, send your learner the link, and
work down the page together: what to say, what to listen for, what to practise
next. Your learner sees each question on their own screen, so there is nothing to
share or stop sharing. English leads, with translated help you reveal when they
need it.
Translanguaging Whiteboard
When a word is the thing in the way, write it on a full-screen board and show it in
your learner's language beside the English. Good for the vocabulary that comes up in
the middle of a session, and you can save the board as a picture for them afterwards.
Patina Video Classroom Experimental
Meet your learner in a private video classroom inside Patina. Your classroom
link and password arrive in your matching email, and the same link works every
week. No 40-minute limit, no app to install, and nothing for your learner to
sign up for.