2027 English Winter Camp (Ages 13–17)
Storytelling through Stop Motion
In this creative winter ESL course, teens will explore the key elements of storytelling and learn how to bring their ideas to life. Students will discover how to develop characters, settings, plots, dialogue and exciting storylines while building their English communication skills along the way. They will then use what they have learned to plan, create and film their own original story using stop-motion animation. Through this hands-on project, students will develop their creativity, collaboration and English skills while producing a finished story they can be proud of.
Through this course, your teen will:
- Develop cooperation, communication, and collaboration skills by working together to plan, design, and refine their stop motion movies
- Create original content, gather feedback from peers, make improvements, and present their final animated movies 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. Students will explore a new edition of our themed English magazines. These high interest themes ensure that learners stay motivated, curious, and engaged throughout the course. Lessons are designed around student centred, communicative tasks that encourage learners to think critically, collaborate with classmates, and use English in meaningful, real world contexts.
- 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 developing their skills as storytellers.
2027 English Winter Camp: IELTS Teens (Ages 15–17)
As the world’s English experts and one of the co-creators of the IELTS test, we have combined our expertise in young learner English teaching and IELTS preparation to offer you a customized course specifically designed for teenage learners.
In this course learners are not required to go through the usual one-size-fits-all style of an IELTS course. They can choose from any of the sessions that will help them get the IELTS score they need. Each session is a stand-alone lesson focusing on one of the skills, whilst still maintaining the British Council’s emphasis on engaging, communicative lessons.
We recognize that teenagers face particular challenges when undertaking the IELTS test that might prevent them for getting the score they need.
In general teens face more obstacles during the IELTS test as they:
- are less familiar with academic writing processes, structures and conventions
- are not yet autonomous learners and lack self-study strategies
- have less life experience than adults to draw on when speaking or writing about a topic
- are less confident in unfamiliar social settings and unable to keep talking about abstract themes
- lack the academic vocabulary needed to be able to process academic texts and produce successful essays
Each session has been specially designed to focus on key areas that Teens struggle with in each part of the test. After an introduction to the day’s skill this includes:
- Writing – each session focuses on the band descriptors that examiners use and shows learners how to understand the criteria and write successful Academic Essays.
- Speaking – our expert staff have drawn on their experience to select the key skills that learners need to answer all 3 parts of the IELTS test fully and accurately.
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