ENGLISH 4 YOU - a summer full of English!

Summer offer 2012

LEARNING ENGLISH – INVESTING IN YOUR FUTURE. Our language programs at SUMMER TIME CAMPS have been attracting the attention of children and parents for over 18 years. We offer something for everybody as our programs cater for all ages and skill levels across a range of different formats. Further information about the range of programs we offer can be found at www.syka.cz. Our language camp ENGLISH 4 YOU is in high demand due to its intensive educational program in a unforgettable summer holiday environment. The European Communities share a common goal to promote linguistic diversity and language education. The camp’s orientation also meets the demands of the Czech Republic’s education and curricular reform, in which the field of language and language communication plays an important role in the educational process. Knowledge of the English language is becoming an invaluable skill for fully participating in today’s developed society in a United Europe. For these reasons, it is no surprise that our ENGLISH 4 YOU camp is becoming more and more popular every year. The SUMMER TIME and EUROCAMP resorts will welcome participants for the eleventh time this summer, while in addition we have added 3 new terms in hotel MADĚROVKA.

The aim of the week long ENGLISH 4 YOU camp is not only to practise English, but also to actively improve the child’s skills throughout each day, in the presence of native English speakers. If your child has at least a basic knowledge of English and you would like them to improve their knowledge by working with teachers whose mother tongue is English, then don’t hesitate to accept our invitation to join the ENGLISH 4 YOU courses in our beautiful South Bohemian environment.

THE CAMP PROGRAM. The core of the educational program consists of 3 morning and 2 afternoon lessons in which an English teacher (native speaker) actively works with the children in classrooms or in our beautiful outdoor areas. The course focuses mainly on improving the children’s conversational skills, their active perception of the language and pronunciation. The goal is not just to understand a foreign language, but also to be able to spontaneously react and speak. Grammar is practised in a fun way that complements the main aim of the course. Besides the lessons, the children enjoy time with their teachers throughout the whole day, participating in fun activities such as sports, games, competitions, swimming, boating, sightseeing trips, camp fires, discos and parties, so they are speaking English all day long.

Children, thanks to their age, are surprisingly fast learners and are naturally able to grasp foreign languages, including new expressions and pronunciation, so direct contact with native English speakers allows them to absorb new language skills quickly. They celebrate the conclusion of the course with an afternoon full of wonderful entertainment, where each class presents a performance (fairytales, sketches, anecdotes, songs - everything in English of course) that they have prepared during the week. A sightseeing trip around the beautiful sights of South Bohemia has a special charm; the children are guided in English and participate in fun and games throughout the afternoon. The teachers not only describe the sights, but also later help the children to remember this special experience by incorporating it into the lessons.

PROFESSIONAL AND SKILLED APPROACH. For several years we have been cooperating with well-established language agencies, which guarantees that our teachers are of high quality. Not only can they teach well, but also they are able to establish a good and responsible relationship with the children. The English speaking leaders come from England, the USA, Canada or Australia. All of them are professionally qualified to work with children. We have a minimum requirement that they have attended an International TEFL Certificate Training Program that prepares native speakers for teaching both children and adult students. Our teachers have received their training mostly through special TEFL programs: particularly through the ITC agency in the Czech Republic (see www.itc-training.com), which is part of The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), or through the TEFL Worldwide Prague agency (see www.teflworldwideprague.com), which is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic. Equally important to us is also Oxford TEFL (see www.oxfordtefl.cz).

Working together with the English teacher is a Czech assistant, who can help the children if they encounter any difficulties. They not only support the teacher in the classroom, but also throughout the other daily activities, therefore they are carefully and professionally selected as well.

RESPONSIBILITY AND SAFETY. During all of our activities, the children are taken care of and looked after at all times; this is one of the reasons why our staff is carefully selected, not only the teachers, but also our other staff from the assistants to the cooks and the nurse. All members of our staff undergo extensive training. Our activities as well as the travel agency are insured by Vienna Insurance Group. The excellent reputation of our camps (read the references here - mostly in Czech) is a testimony that children love attending them and that parents have confidence in us. Many of the SUMMER TIME CAMP participants have been spending their holiday with us for several seasons. It is not unusual for some children to choose to spend more time with us and to participate in more than one program during the summer, proof of the popularity of our excellent camps and courses. Every teacher knows that the best lessons are the ones that the students look forward to.

AGE, TERMS AND PRICE. The camp is designed for children between the ages of 7 and 17 (the camp in MADĚROVKA from 12 to 17), who have a basic knowledge of the English language. The program is also adjusted for more advanced English speakers, which is why the children are divided into groups according to their skill level, and of course their age is always taken into consideration. The capacity of our resorts is never fully taken up in order to ensure a comfortable and efficient learning environment, but because demand is high, this year our course is offered across nine terms, which can be connected for a two-week stay (details here):

There are comfortable buses reserved for transportation to our camp provided by the reliable company Comett plus.
Departure and arrival are from Prague.