Residential Courses in Poland
Get-away courses - intensive residential courses
Three times a year PROGRAM-Bell organises residential
courses for adults in comfortable, beautifully located
conference centres. Courses are intensive and are run
by native speaker English teachers. Participants are
divided into small groups according to their language
proficiency and take part in 4 hours of intensive English
lessons in the morning and two hours of supervised individual
study in the afternoon.
Teachers work with one group for 8 consecutive hours,
then change groups, to return to their original group
after another 8 hours. Such teacher swapping is extremely
important in the case of native speaker teachers because
it introduces a lot of diversity to the syllabus and
students have an excellent opportunity to get acquainted
with a variety of English accents.
The course gives an opportunity to practice all language
skills: listening comprehension, writing, reading, with
particular emphasis on speaking. Lessons are arranged
in such a way as to provide plenty of opportunities to
actively use the language. Beside standard lesssons the
course involves interviewing, preparing and recording
radio programmes, shows of English and American films
in original version, language simulations, lessons on
British and American culture, an evening of party games
in English and solving a murder mystery.
Beside morning and afternoon classes there is a rich
social evening programme with a variety of quizzes, games
and competitions, all of course in English. During outings
and sports acvtivities all communication out of necessity
is done in English, thus helping develop the necessary
fluency. | 
