In the afternoons:

• Free time for private studies, leisure activities, recreation or work!!

Standard Course: Important details at one glance:

• Tuition: 20 lessons per week, covering all areas of general English
  
• Time schedule: 9.00 AM – 12.30 PM
  
• Year around
• Weekly start dates every Monday from 4th January to 6th December 2010
  
• Minimum 2 weeks
• Elementary - Advanced
• Maximum class size - 14
• Average age: 18-30 years
  
• Private studies / regular homework
• Orientation and welcome pack (including map)
• Testing usually takes place on Monday
• Weekly progress test
• Optional evening lecture program
  
• Course certificate for students who successfully complete 90% of the course.
  

• Weekly start dates every Monday from 4th January to 6th December 2010
• Levels: Elementary – advanced
• Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
  
• Tuition: 28 lessons per week
• Time schedule: General English from 9.00am – 12.30 pm from Monday - Friday (30 minutes break) + Special Interest Groups from 13.30pm – 15.00pm from Monday – Thursday
• Self-Study Option on Tuesday afternoon from 15.15pm – 16.45pm
• Maximum class size (morning classes) - 14, Afternoon module class sizes are generally smaller than morning classes, with an average of 6-8 students. During the summer season class sizes are similar to morning classes.
• Private studies / regular homework
  
• Orientation and welcome pack (including map)
• Testing usually takes place on Monday
• Weekly progress test
• Course certificate for students who successfully complete 90% of the course.
• Optional evening lecture program
  

AFTERNOON MODULES:

Options from elementary – to pre-intermediate level (all year round):

1. Fluency and Discussion:
   This special interest group focuses on speaking, speaking and more speaking! It will improve your fluency, pronunciation and vocabulary and help you gain in confidence.
   
   • Contributing to discussions
   • Using role play to communicate
   • Developing mini-presentations
   • Taking part in drama activities
   
   
2. Listening and Pronunciation:
   This special interest group will improve your spoken performance in English
   
   • Concentrating on sounds, stress, rhythm and intonation
   • Working with sound units
   • Using primary and secondary stress
   • Understanding sentence rhythm – intonation, emotion and meaning
   • Articulating sounds
     

Options from lower-intermediate – to advanced level:

1. Business English/English for Work:
   These lessons cover the essential areas of business English and develop the language you need to conduct business in English. Topics include: communication, meetings, entertaining the client, brand power, reports, cash flow and public relations.
   
   • Enhancing vocabulary for business and commerce
   • Conducting negotiations and meetings
   • Improving presentations and written reports
   • Gaining skills in business correspondence
   • Being effective in business socializing
   
   
2. IELTS Preparation:
   These specialist IELTS preparation lessons cover the essential grammar, vocabulary and language skills required for success in the IELTS examination. These lessons also cover exam techniques, self-correction techniques and include regular practice exams.
   
   • Studying exam techniques and strategies
   • Developing skills to read more quickly and effectively
   • Picking out important information as you listen
   • Answering different types of questions
   • Organising your writing
   
   
3. Academic Reading and Writing:
   If you are preparing for academic study at university, these special interest classes will improve your reading and writing and presentation skills to the standard required for effective degree-level study at UK universities.
   
   • Developing presentation skills
   • Learning how to plan and write an essay
   • Learning how to research a subject effectively
   • Improving your reading strategies

Additional Special Interest Groups:

Summer season - Modules during the summer season can include:

• Travel & Tourism
• Cultural Studies
• Media
• Studies and Grammar Workshops if there is sufficient demand.

Benefits:

• Trimester: If you study for 12 weeks or more you will have a one-to-one interview with the Director of Studies and a personalized Study Action Plan will be developed for you incl. the guarantee to study for free in case you don’t achieve the result that has been agreed with you in advance
• Academic Year: If you study for 24 weeks or more you will also receive a free mobile phone together with GBP 10 credit and a SIM card with one of the lowest tariffs for UK and international calls and a free mobile broadband USB modem pre-loaded with 3 GB for internet and email connection anywhere, anytime.
• Free university placement service
  

Benefits:

• Trimester: If you study for 12 weeks or more you will have a one-to-one interview with the Director of Studies and a personalized Study Action Plan will be developed for you incl. the guarantee to study for free in case you don’t achieve the result that has been agreed with you in advance
• Academic Year: If you study for 24 weeks or more you will also receive 6 free additional guided independent study sessions and a free study pack, produced especially for your course, as well as a free mobile phone together with GBP 10 credit and a SIM card with one of the lowest tariffs for UK and international calls and a free mobile broadband USB modem pre-loaded with 3 GB for internet and email connection anywhere, anytime.
• Free university placement service
  

Assessment
Regular, formal assessment forms an important part of this course. You will be carefully monitored and guided to ensure you are achieving your full potential. Your work will be collated in your Learning Development File, which you can keep after your course. You will also be presented with the school´s International Diploma of English during a special awards ceremony for your Diploma year. Assessment on the International Diploma of English includes:

• Weekly tests throughout the course
• Termly progress tests
• regular essays and written presentations throughout the course
• oral presentations
• special work project
• oral exam
• written exam

Sample Curriculum overview

1. General English lessons (all students)
   20 lessons per week will focus on the key areas of language development so that you improve your English quickly and effectively. As you develop in skill and confidence, so you will start to concentrate on more specialist language areas. Overall, you will develop your skills in each of the following areas:
   
   • Reading
     
   • Writing
   • Listening
   • Speaking
   • Comprehension
   • Grammar
   • Vocabulary
   • Expression
   Total: 20 lessons per week
2. Guided independent study lessons (all students)
   In addition, 6 guided independent study lessons will help you develop the skills you’ve acquired in the classroom, as you apply them in a range of contexts. You can use online resources in the multimedia self-access study facility, or you might work on projects using magazines, books and video resources relevant to your learning topics.
   Total: 6 lessons per week
   
3. Special Interest Group lessons (Intensive only)
   The Intensive Year and Semester includes 8 lessons per week of more specialist subjects which you choose according to your own personal learning needs. You will first focus on extra language development subjects and then move on to more specialist subject areas. We will ensure you study the right subjects for your needs.
   Sample Special Interest Group subjects for language development
   
   • Communication skills (up to Intermediate level)
   • Idioms and Further Vocabulary
   • Conversation Practice
   • Listening and Pronunciation
   • British Life and Culture
   Sample Special Interest Group subjects for specialist study
   
   • IELTS Preparation
   • FCE and CAE Preparation
   • Academic Reading and Writing
   • Academic Study Skills
   • Communication Skills (Upper- Intermediate and above)
   • Business English
   • English for Work
   • Art & Design
   • Reading Club
   Total: 8 lessons per week
4. Evening lecture progamme (all students)
   The school also runs an optional one-hour evening lecture each week which will greatly enhance your learning experience. The evening lecture can be on a language-based topic or on a subject of cultural interest relevant to the UK.
   Sample language lectures
   
   • Grammar Seminar: Conditionals
   • Language Seminar: Adjectives and Verbs
   • Dialects: Different Types of English
   • Grammar Workshop: Passives
   • Phrasal Verbs
   Sample cultural lectures
   
   • British Comedy: Laughter in English
   • Charles Dickens - His Life and Times
   • Animation - Moving Images
   • Poetry Workshop
   • King Henry VIII
   Total: 01 hour per week
   

Details:

• Tuition: 20 or 28 lessons per week
  
• Duration: FCE: 10 or 12 weeks / CAE: 09 or 12 weeks
• Minimum Levels: FCE – Intermediate; CAE – Upper-Intermediate
• Maximum class size - 12
• Average age 18-30
• Schedule: Cambridge Standard: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm
  
• Schedule: Cambridge Intensive: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm + Monday to Thursday 13.30pm to 15.00pm
  

Price includes

• 20 or 28 lessons per week
• Placement test on arrival, weekly progress tests and regular homework
  
• Study File, teaching materials and course book
  
• Use of self-access study facilities
  
• Free wireless email and internet
  
• Regular social activities 
• Optional evening lecture programme
  
• End-of course certificate
  

The exam fee is not included in the course price.

Prices: FCE: GBP 98.00; CAE: GBP 100.00 (Fees are subject to change and have to be reconfirmed at the moment of registration).

Note: As the exam may take place the week following the end of the course, students may have to book an extra week of accommodation.

Cambridge Exams must be booked at least 8 weeks in advance.

• 28 lessons per week
• Placement test on arrival, weekly progress tests and regular homework
  
• Study File, teaching materials and course book
  
• Use of self-access study facilities 
• Welcome Information Pack
  
• Free wireless email and internet
  
• Regular social activities
  
• Optional evening lecture programme
  
• End-of course certificate

• 20 lessons (15 hours) per week in international classes in the morning or afternoon as dictated by timetable. Well-structured classroom lessons are combined with speaking and listening exercises to give students an opportunity to use English in a wide variety of everyday situations including travelling, shopping, living in an English home, going to a restaurant, talking to friends, using public transport, going out in the evening, etc.
• Optional sports and activity programme with at least 2-3 free activities per week.
• Selection of paid activities.
• Weekly excursion - destinations may include Bath, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Winchester, Winsdsor, Oxford, Brighton , London, castles, parksand forests incl. New Forest National Park, etc. Transportation included - entry fees to attractions are not included.
• Placement test, weekly progress tests and us of course book
• End-of-course certificate
• Free email and internet
• 24 hour emergency number
• Accommodation: Twin or single room in a host family with half board (breakfast / dinner) incl.

Excursions schedule*: Please contact us for further details at

*Subject to change without notice  

Specialist activities (3 sessions per week; 90 – 120 minutes per session; transports incl.):

• Trinity Exam - Price includes 2 Trinity preparation sessions, 1 mock exam and the Trinity exam. 

• 20 lessons (15 hours) per week in international classes in the morning or afternoon as dictated by timetable + 1 weekly full day excursion (always on Saturday), 1 weekly half-day trip, full programme of sports and activities incl. regular daytime activities and at least 3 evening activities
• Additional optional excursions are available at extra cost
• Schedule: Shift System Monday to Friday 09.00am – 12.30pm and/or 14.00pm – 17.30pm
  
• Duration: Minimum 2 weeks (2-10 weeks)
• Available from mid-June to the end of August (every Monday from 21st June – 16th August / the course ends on 27th August 2010)
• Minimum age: 14 (average 14-18)
• Maximum class size 16 students
• Level: Elementary- Advanced
• Lessons operate on a shift system with a combination of morning and afternoon sessions.
• 24 hour emergency number
• Placement test, weekly progress tests and use of course book
  
• End-of-course certificate
  
• Free email and internet
  
• School bank to keep pocket money
  
• Weekly laundry
• Accommodation: Twin or single room in a host family with daily half board + lunch during the week from Monday to Friday in the school cafeteria

Samples for typical free sports & activities: volleyball, football, table-tennis, crazy golf, swimming, archery, mini-cruise, treasure hunt, cycle ride, forest walk, mini-Olympics, cinema, cabaret, quizzes, bingo, sing-along, karaoke, cream teas, art club, talenet show, boat trip, picnics, barbecues, sightseeing

Typical free excursions (except entrance fees): Bath, Salisbury and Stonehenge, Winchester, Windsor, Oxford, Brighton, castles parks and forests including New Forest National Park

Excursions schedule*: Please contact us for further details at

*Subject to change without notice  

Specialist activities (3 sessions per week; 90 – 120 minutes per session; transports incl.):

• Trinity Exam - Price includes 2 Trinity preparation sessions, 1 mock exam and the Trinity exam.
  

Accommodation in the school´s residence (Code LFR)
The accommodation at our London summer camp is excellent. Rooms are large, modern and clean. There is a full laundry service and rooms are cleaned daily. There is a mixture of smaller study bedrooms and larger dormitories (with a maximum of 6 students per room). The communal bathrooms are also of a good standard with plenty of showers. There are a number of common rooms which the students can use to watch films, chat to friends and generally relax. There will be 24 hours supervision by qualified members of our staff.

Accommodation in selected host families (Code LFH)
Alternatively you can also choose to stay with one of our carefully selected host families. Accommodation in a host families gives students the opportunity to get to know the country´s culture whilst practising the language at the same time. Students get a free transfer service from their host families to the school in the morning and back in the afternoon.

Plenty of healthy food
There will be 3 meals served each day in the school dining hall. This will include breakfast, lunch and dinner. There will also be ‘orange and biscuits’ at supper time before bed. Packed lunches will be provided when students go on trips. The school has a reputation for good food and there will be plenty of choice and lots of fresh fruit and vegetables.
There will also be a school tuck-shop when students can buy snacks and drinks.

A stimulating Learning Programme
There will be 20 lessons (45 minutes each) per week. Lessons will take place in the morning Monday to Friday. Students will study in small groups (maximum 16 in a class) at appropriate levels. There is a balanced syllabus which includes reading, writing, speaking and listening. Emphasis will be given to speaking and listening and students will be expected to use their English in class to complete group tasks, role-play activities and project work. The aim of our learning programme is to encourage students to use their English as much as possible in and out of the classroom. Our classroom activities are intended to promote rapid learning – we hope the students will also have fun along the way

Care and Supervision
Our summer camp will be managed by a team of suitably qualified and experienced staff. There will be 24-hour care and supervision on site to ensure all the students are safe, secure and happy.

Examples of Free Activities

• London City Tour
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Film showing
• Drama Workshop

Examples of Paid Activities

• British Museum (Travelcard fee)
• Camden Market (Travelcard fee)
• Imperial War Museum (Travelcard fee)
• Tower of London (Travelcard fee)
• Westminster Walk (Travelcard fee)
• Madam Tussaud's (Travelcard fee and entry)
• Natural History Museum (Travelcard fee and entry)
• Greenwich Royal Observatory (Travelcard fee and entry)

Airport Transfer from: Heathrow £ 120 / Gatwick £ 120 / City £ 61 / Luton £ 155 / Stansted £ 155 / St. Pancras International (Eurostar Train Station) £ 65 one way

Cheaper prices per person are available for 2 or 3 students traveling together. Please contact us for the exact details. 

Students under 16 years must be accompanied to and from the airport. They can be accompanied by their parents or must book an airport transfer two ways.

Departure Check-in Service:
A check-in service can be arranged to assist students on departure. A driver or guide will assist the student with check-in and ensure that they pass through immigration. If the student is booked with the airline as Unaccompanied Minor, the driver will also wait until the flight has departed. The fee for this service is GBP 30. This service is compulsory for any student under 16 years traveling as individual.