welcome to our immersion courses
hovering over a quintessentially British village called Alfriston
is where we begin to reminisce about our immersion courses to date we've invited
English learners from anywhere and everywhere to come together and live
with us to not only study English but experience it and oh how blessed we've
been to have students from all four corners of the world from Russia to
Poland to Italy to Thailand to Venezuela to Bulgaria and many many more
but it all starts at Brighton train station where we pick our students up
and drive them to our gorgeous accommodation with welcome drinks, games
and dinner cooked by the real English teachers the scene is set and the course
has truly begun the brilliance of this type of course is the fact that the
learning environments are diverse they are spacious and homely this is nothing
like a traditional classroom experience and talking of classes we ensure that
the day's start with an extended lesson which has been tailor-made to the group
now the reason we stress this is because after doing these courses for a while
now we've seen that being reactive to the group for class content is vital
every student is an individual with a different set of needs so it's important
to take that into consideration when designing a lesson so for our courses we
use a dogme teaching approach which minimises the use of textbooks and
pre-planned curriculums and values communicative competence over everything
else and moreover as language learning is such a subjective experience
we are constantly adapting the course to best fit the group of people meaning no
two courses have ever and after class we have a break for
lunch and then get ready for the day's excursion and on these outings we aim to
increase our students confidence when talking in English while exploring some
of our favorite spots in the South of England and as the environment is
forever changing we try to turn any moment into a learning opportunity for
students so that they can absorb as much new English as they desire if you've
ever wanted to have a class on a beach in a restaurant or whilst taking a walk
in the wilderness then look no further so on these adventures out in the real
world we tend to give a range of challenges that encourage students to
get practicing with their communication skills and while this is going on we
your teachers are thinking up new ways to incorporate the newly discovered
language of the day in unique evening activities after the completion of the
day we give our students time to relax and unwind in the house or take a stroll
into the town an amazing part of these courses is how well everybody seems to
get on friendships quickly develop and downtime become social time between
course activities one of our favourite things to see is when a course finishes
and students reunite and send us selfies from different parts of the world this
has happened on several occasions and it fills us with joy knowing that it was
the immersion course and their speaking skills in English which brought them
together in the first place beautiful rejuvenated after our downtime
we then start the evening off with a dinner out or a home-cooked meal
the team cooking is a great communicative challenge and an
opportunity for those students who want to to showcase their national cuisine to
the rest of the group after dinner we then meet in the lounge for the evening
speaking activity which we choose according to the energy
level of the group the main purpose of these activities is to get everyone
reviewing the new vocabulary and expressions that have come up during the
course in a fun and informal way and on the last full day we always like to take
our students to the jaw-dropping coastal walk along Seven Sisters and Beachy Head
which for some reason always gives us glorious weather though I've probably
jinx that now so this is a typical timetable for our immersion courses with
lessons in the morning a fun activity in the day a dining experience in the
evening and then an informal speaking game before bed so that is all day
everyday speaking and living in English
and then on the final morning we check out of our immersion home and go for a
tasty English breakfast down the road before dropping everyone off at Brighton
train station which is always a heartfelt farewell but never a goodbye
so we love our courses but don't take our word for it
how about we listen to some voice messages that our previous course goers
left us after our last course I saw a great opportunity to practice my English
communication skills while getting in touch with interesting people from
different countries all sharing the same interest learning English
for me it was not only an English course it was a great experience in life that
filled me with warm and happy feelings thank you so much teachers in my view I
have never taken English courses better than this one because it really
helps you pick up language, phrases, idioms in your daily life and you won't
feel tired it improves my self confidence because
during the course I talk with all guys and during the challenge I have a communication with the
shopkeepers, pedestrians and I also received some hidden gems from the local
people yes really awesome this course helped me to get more confident while
speaking English so I will recommend this course to everybody everybody
should do it you rock guys so there you have it some real feedback on a real
English with real teachers immersion course no payments were made in exchange
for this feedback I promise so to conclude if you like what you see and
you are aching to boost your English speaking confidence with us then you can
because we still have some places available on our upcoming course dates
which you can find on our website which is linked in the description box below
I'd also like to stress how this course is for all adults no matter how young or
old you feel we always have a very big age range on the course and we
absolutely love it so please don't hold back if you think you are not the right
age because you are another thing we've noticed is that these courses help
non-native teachers of English feel inspired when they get back to work
after having such a unique learning experience and they can implement that
into their classes with their students so if you are a
non-native English teacher then you could even class this course as continued
professional development and finally if you wanted to come with your partner or
a close friend and share a room together then we can offer you a discounted price
so don't wait around go over to our website and submit your email address
and we'll get in touch with you as soon as we can thank you for watching and
give us a like if you want to come on an immersion course with us one day
until then bye for now