More than just an English course – learn English for the real world.
English Engineers - Building Ideas and Language for a Bright Future
Our exciting weeklong course for teens blends creativity and language learning as students become architects, using English and the website Tinkercad to design virtual buildings and vehicles found in cities. Guided through the architectural design process, your teen will collaborate in small teams to create digital models and presentations that they can share with family and friends after the course.
Through this course, your teen will:
- Develop cooperation, communication, and collaboration skills by working together to plan, design, and refine their architectural projects.
- Create original content, gather feedback from peers, make improvements, and present their final designs to the class.
Improving reading and writing skills:
As part of the course, your child will receive specially designed magazine materials unique to the British Council. These materials have been created to support language development and include engaging resources which are tailored to your child’s age and English proficiency level. Students will be motivated to read and interact with the materials for a clear purpose, using them to gather ideas and information whilst practising using the language in engaging and student focused tasks. The magazine activities will reinforce new vocabulary and concepts, helping your child build confidence in English.
- Identifying themes and main ideas
- Skimming and scanning texts for relevant information
- Guessing meaning from context and using new vocabulary
- Notetaking, summarizing, and paraphrasing as they create content for their digital models and presentations
Improving speaking and listening skills:
As your child works in small groups with your classmates, they will not only start to feel more confident in speaking, but also improve their ability to listen ‘actively’ to others and become more adept at using strategies to help them clarify others’ meaning.
They will practise various types of communication functions such as exchanging ideas, justifying choices, negotiating, and compromising to reach a common goal. This practise will foster essential communication skills that they can use in real-life situations in or outside the classroom.
Each day will start the session with a range of fun activities to get students ‘thinking in English’, communicating for a real purpose, and building trust and friendship with their classmates. They will work in teams to solve puzzles, riddles, quizzes, and complete physical teamwork challenges. These short sessions will help them become more familiar with their classmates, who they will join teams with, to design their architecture projects with over the week.
By the end of the course, your teen will have strengthened their English skills while gaining hands-on experience in digital design and architecture.