Design• Create • Test • Improve • Play!

Our exciting weeklong course for teens combines fun and learning as your child is guided through the ‘engineering design process’ to create a virtual escape room and board game that they can take home at the end of the course and continue to play with family and friends.

Early bird registration starts today! Sign up now! 

Through this course, your child will:

Based on the engineering design process, this course will improve your child’s ability to cooperate, communicate, and collaborate, as they work in small teams to design their games. They will need to create content, test their protype games, get feedback from peers, make improvements, and finally play them with their classmates.

Improving reading and writing skills

Your child will utilise an engaging reader as a reference book to source key facts. This will form the basis of their board game and virtual escape room.

They will become more confident in:

  • Identifying themes
  • Skimming and scanning a text.
  • Guessing meaning from context and using new vocabulary
  • Notetaking, summarizing, and paraphrasing as you write content for your board game and escape room.

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 each 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 games over the week.

Monday/ Tuesday / Wednesday morning: Create a Board Game

Wednesday afternoon / Thursday / Friday: Build an Escape Room

Free ‘Game Club’ entrance

If your child joins our course, they will get free entrance to one of our ‘Game Club’ evenings, where they can make new friends and re-connect with their classmates. They will enjoy using English in a low-stress, fun environment as they play one of the world’s most famous cooperative board games.

Course duration and location

Winter writers’ workshop:

21- 24 Jan, 2025 (Tue–Fri) 09:30-12:30 (four 3-hour lessons per week)

  • Ages 13–17

Serious play course:

3- 7 Feb, 2025 (Mon–Fri)

  • Ages 13–17: 6 hours per day, 5 days a week (five 6-hour lessons per week)*

*Course levels are timetable to differ with each school; please contact your English course consultant for details.

Location: 

XinYi Teaching Centre

ShiPai Teaching Centre

Linkou Teaching Centre

Age levels

  • This course accepts students who are currently enrolled in middle or senior high school, between the ages of 13 to 17.
  • Each student is required to take a placement test which will determine their language proficiency level and be arranged for the appropriate class.
  • Learn about our Child Safeguarding Policy.

Winter writers’ workshop!!

During our winter holiday course, we want to improve your child’s writing ability. This winter course is designed to help your child improve their English writing skills whilst having fun exploring creative activities. With a mix of different tasks, we want your child to experiment with different ideas and styles to give them a more rounded experience of writing. During the course your child will receive the required support to allow them to grow in a comfortable, enjoyable, and supportive environment.

Winter writers’ workshop for Secondary students!

Join our writing course designed for secondary learners. This course is designed to help students improve their English writing skills in a fun, engaging, and practical way. Whether your child wants to express themselves more clearly, develop their creativity, or improve their writing for school, this course offers the tools and guidance to help them grow.

Through interactive activities, mini projects, and personalised feedback, your child will focus on learning how to structure different types of writing and achieve a specific writing aim each day. This course will help your child become a more confident and skilled writer in English.

Academic Writing Workshop

Join our academic writing course for secondary learners. This course is designed to help your child sharpen their writing skills for academic success in English. Throughout the course, you child will focus on the features of academic writing such as, brainstorming, essay structure, topic development, critical thinking, elements of paragraphs, all building into sound academic skills for the future. You child will also receive personalised feedback on their writing and advice on which areas they should focus on improving.

Whether preparing for exams, school projects, or future studies, your child will gain the tools and confidence needed to write effectively across a range of academic topics. This course offers a supportive space to grow as a writer, communicator, and build for academic success in the future.