Key Skills

A course specially tailored for students of all abilities, who want to improve their general level of English.

Begbroke

EFL- Key Skills

13-15 year olds

From £3595

14 days commencing:

17/07/2022, 31/07/2022

Learning

Outline

Gain valuable English speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and invest in your international future with our intensive two-week course. Focus on improving fluency and accuracy through interactive, communicative activities and real-life encounters, inside and outside the classroom.

Build up your vocabulary and develop your written work, and at the end of your course receive a Certificate and a Letter of Recommendation from Oxford Summer Courses.

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 play a game at Begbroke Hall during free time

Reviews

"My time at Oxford Summer Courses has been nothing short of extraordinary. I have honestly had one of the best experiences of my life here."

Anika Australia

Our Student Anika

Reviews

"Choosing to come here has definitely been the best decision I have ever made. The staff, tutors, course directors and all the friends you make are all people you will always remember, they hold a very special place in my heart. "

Ashna India

Our Student Ashna

Reviews

This week has been super fun! Active English lessons are enjoyable because they are exciting activities, like painting and games. And the lessons are fun, too.

Lal Turkey

Our Student Lal

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.