Hi! I'm Peter Smith
My friends call me Pete!

I was born in London and raised in a tiny town called Rainham, near Gillingham in Kent.

I studied my Business Studies degree in Leicester and following graduation went travelling for one year (India, Nepal, Singapore) ending up in Australia where I had to work as I had run out of money!

I worked in a direct sales company in Sydney where I learned many skills that still serve me today. The most important being how to have a positive attitude. I started training others and after spells in Melbourne, Auckland and London, I finally set up my own direct advertising company in Nottingham at the age of 25. A dream come true!

I expanded to a second location in Leeds but as I tried to help that office grow, my original office suffered and I realised that that dream was over. Time for a new challenge!

I took stock and thought hard about what I had enjoyed about the experience and it became clear that my passion was for teaching and training.

I did a CELTA course in London in 1998 and taught English in London before moving to Mexico City first as a teacher and then as the Academic Coordinator before becoming the Academic Director.

In 2002, I decided to return to Europe to be closer to my family and did the DELTA (Diploma in Teaching) in Barcelona that year. 

I started teaching at Merit School, soon became a coordinator and in 2006 I became the Assistant Director of Studies, the position I hold today.

Two other passions of mine are writing and presenting and in my free time I have been fortunate to be able to pursue these and work in a range of exciting fields.

2003      Authored my first Students and Teachers Books

2005-8   Trained and worked as a personal life coach

2008-10 Trained and performed as a stand-up comedian

2014      Wrote my first novel: The Window on the Sea

2009-17 Wrote material for English language learners for EF Education, Oxford University Press and MacMillan

2017      Started blogging on Medium

2018-9  Wrote a book and a half of test materials for the Cambridge University Press Evolve series

2019      Created this website 

If you want to see what I’m doing right now, visit my now page.