Canterbury Summer School courses are short: only two or three weeks long. To really improve your English in this time, you need to be using it all the time (or as much as possible anyway). I do not believe that it is possible to study English language, in a classroom, for six hours a day – that would be torture, especially in your summer holidays!
The summer school programme offers a variety of lessons and activities which make using English fun and less stressful. The programme is also inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s approach to pedagogy. So, we start each day with singing and recitation. These are excellent practises for English pronunciation; they also ‘wake up’ the body and soul to be receptive to the more academic lessons, like English grammar and reading comprehension. Each day students get a chance to work with their hands in clay modelling; this is also a great opportunity for ‘classroom chat’, all in English of course.
Finally, there are things to do and places to see, and the summer school programme is packed full of trips to London, Ten Pin Bowling, Beach barbeques, games of cricket on the lawn and much much more…
The most special part of a Canterbury Summer School course (after English), is the friendship that blossoms between young people from different parts of the world. At the end of each course there are always sad goodbyes but also happy memories of fun and friendship to take home with you.