English Explorers

Learn, live and love English, with this inspiring blend of language teaching, practical activities and immersive cultural experiences.

Begbroke

EFL- Key Skills

09-10 year olds

From £1495

7 days commencing:

05/07/2020, 12/07/2020, 19/07/2020, 26/07/2020, 02/08/2020, 09/08/2020

Learning

Outline

You’ll develop skills and build confidence in all areas of the English language. From learning the right way to use vocabulary and functions to writing fluently, we’ll transform the way you communicate.

Studying English Language with us means that you will learn in an interactive and immersive way, to give you plenty of opportunity for authentic, meaningful English communication and conversation. We use a combination of taught lessons in small groups, and ‘active English’ sessions, where you can apply your English to everything from cooking to debating dilemmas and solving murder mysteries.

Teaching methodology

Interactive and immersive learning
Authentic, meaningful English communication and conversation
Combination of taught lessons in small groups, and ‘active English’ sessions- learning English inside and outside the classroom
All skill areas- reading, writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary and functions
‘learning by doing’- pair and group speaking activities, role-plays, games, quizzes and problem solving activities

The Experience

All teaching and accommodation for English Language courses will take place at Begbroke Hall, an 18th century hall located on a secure and peaceful site in north Oxford. The hall’s grounds back onto Blenheim Palace grounds and includes facilities such as art rooms, food technology rooms, and a technology suite, for a fully-immersive English Language course.

Living and learning at the same site provides for a fully immersive experience, similar to that of an English boarding school. The site is a safe environment, with great staff to student ratios, and all staff are background-checked and trained in safeguarding.

Students learning outside during a summer course

Reviews

"I enjoyed doing activities with my group and spending time with my friends. I like when we go out for the dinners on Saturday nights and all the trips, especially the Harry Potter Studio trip."

Annika Thailand

Students making friends during a break

Reviews

"When I did tech, it was actually really really fun, we had groups and we made remixes and websites and games, and it was really fun learning how to do everything. "

Auguste Hong Kong

Students playing catch with a rugby ball outside

Reviews

"The subjects were surprisingly more than enjoyable and I absorbed a profusion of information. "

Joie Philippines

Happy student in-front of Begbroke Collage

Begbroke Hall, Oxford

Begbroke Hall occupies a secure and peaceful site north of Oxford, allowing students to enjoy the English countryside but be within a 15 min drive to the world famous sights of Oxford. Oxford Summer Courses have exclusive use of the whole school for a fully immersive learning experience, available to 9-17 year old EFL students throughout the summer.

Accommodation

Begbroke Hall started life as a girls boarding school in the 1700s before its owner gave the house to St Juliana’s Convent who ran a small girls independent school until the 1980s. The hall's grounds back onto Blenheim Palace grounds and includes facilities such as: art rooms, food technology rooms and a technology suite for a fully immersive English Language course. Classrooms are well equipped with modern technology including smart boards.

Accommodation at Begbroke Hall is in newly refurbished, modern rooms with shared bathrooms. Student rooming will be mainly be in twin rooms with some students in dorm style rooms of 3-6. We want you to be happy and have the best summer ever, so experienced, highly-trained Oxford Summer Course staff live on site during the summer to help you get settled in and provide the support you need.

Food and catering: You'll enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in the old chapel which still has its original features such as the beautiful stained glass windows. On day trips and excursions, you'll have a packed meal or a meal out at a local restaurant.

Begbroke Hall

Begbroke Hall entrance 1

Begbroke Hall entrance 1 close up

Begbroke Hall

Bedbroke Hall entrance 2

Class room at Begbroke Hall

Classroom at Begbroke Hall showing decorative windows

Bedroom at Begbroke Hall