English at summer camps in poland

Summer 2012

Why Bell-Poznan language camps?

The Program-Bell language school has been organizing language camps employing native speaker teachers for years. The natural method of language teaching by means of communicating with native-born Britons, Americans or Canadians is the easiest way to master English as no textbook or teaching method can have comparable effectiveness. Our teachers from Great Britain, the USA or Canada not only are adequately qualified to teach English as a foreign language and have experience in this activity but also have lots of enthusiasm and the proper type of personality. Besides, they possess many other skills: they know rules of many sports, are musical and can play  musical instruments or sing, they know how to direct a play, make a film or produce a musical. All our teachers have experience of work in other countries with children from other cultures. We are convinced that their experience will serve to enrich camps organized by our school and will give them a taste of the world polish.

Holidays in beautiful and safe places.

Szkoła Języków Obcych
PROGRAM-Bell
ul. Fredry 1, 1p
61-701 Poznań

Lądek Zdrój	Tleń
Jansówka

Jansówka A (Kuślin) (10-14)
30.06.2012 -12.07.2012
Price: 1870,-
(www.jansowka.pl)

LOST IN ADVENTURE

We would like to invite you to a training camp where you will be caught in a real maelstrom of adventure!  The area of many hectares at Jansówka is well prepared for sports activities and   field work. During the camp you will have an opportunity to become alternately either commando soldiers  or  gold diggers, and sometimes even real  medieval knights! As commando soldiers you will seize a hanging camp hidden among ramps, monkey bars and rope bridges. As gold diggers you will look for hidden treasure in a traditional way, following secret messages as well using geocaching  – where  geo means earth and cache – hideout.  Geocaching is a modern day search method using satellite navigation. Groups do field work, which lets them practice their navigating skills in the forest using GPS. Your task will be to find hidden puzzles. The only clues at your disposal will be longitude and latitude, a GPS receiver and a map.
During the camp we will also wander in the underground maze and play the Knights of the Round Table. We will invent the scenery for several well-known tales and act them out in natural scenery.  The program of the camp also includes a trip and a guided tour at Międzyrzecki Rejon Umocniony where you will also visit an interesting bat reservoir.

Rokosowo A ( 9-13)
30.06.2012- 12.07.2012
Price:1950,-
(www.rokosowo.pl)

THE MAGIC WORLD OF MIME AND DANCE

We would like to invite you to the world of mimes and music. In English-speaking surroundings you will turn into white-faced mimes in black leotards to harmoniously act out roles of living things and to instill life into others. You will check out what it’s like to be either needle or thread, or how to act out the role of a happy harlequin. You will learn how to be funny on stage and express emotions with gestures. Music and great instructors will open you up and bring into the world of imagination and movement. During the camp you will present interesting pantomimes, authored by you along with you English-speaking teachers. Let your imagination run free! And you will have an opportunity to enchant the inhabitants of Leszno with your pantomimes. We will take you to the beautiful market square there where all pedestrians will be charmed by your miming performance. And, as is our tradition, we will take you to spend one camp weekend at the forester’s lodge at Brzednia, where you will have attractive classes of survival arts with professional instructors. With daily language lessons a good portion of physical exercise will do you good!

Castle at Tucznie A (13-16)
30.06.2012-13.07.2012
Price: 2070,-
(www.zamek-tuczno.pl)

THE CASTLE OF HORRORS

We would like to invite you to two weeks of awesome adventures within the walls of the old castle at Tuczno in the Pomerania region. The castle used to belong to the family of Von Wedel and this old family had more than just one skeleton in the cupboard.  During the camp we will create the atmosphere out of horror novels and films just like in the tales by the masters of this genre Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur C. Doyle. You will study some of his short stories and their influence on American filmography. Based on them you will create your own drama études in the scenery of the Gothic castle and the surrounding park. In the etudes you will use characters from well-known movies and horror stories. We will provide materials and makeup to get perfect effects!
In the evenings the waters of the lake nearby will wash away the makeup off your faces. Will it be like in EA Poe’s poem  “this dim lake …, this misty mid region…,  this ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir”? – check out for yourselves….
The camp program also includes a canoeing trip down the river Korytnica as well as an excursion to the town of Drawsko Pomorskie and a trip to the ruins of the Drahim castle.

Geovita Lądek Zdrój B (13-17)
14.07.2012-27.07.2012
Price: 2210,-
(www.geovita.pl/obiekt/Ladek_Zdroj.5.html)

What’s in the News?

All those interested in current events from all over the world and from our own backyard are invited to come to our reporters’ camp at Lądek Zdrój. There you will have an opportunity to improve you writing skills in English, practicing a variety of writing styles, including features and interviews. At Lądek Zdrój we will also make a television news program, which will bring news about what is going on around the world, in Poland and on the camp. In our Lądek News  show you will act as reporters hosting the show and as actors acting out selected scenes from international and local news items. Every group will do their own projects which will be available to watch on tape.  Perhaps you will decide to apply a tongue in cheek approach to show the reality?... Another periodical, the Sudety News, will include all interesting events of the past week, described in individual feature articles. Naturally, there will also be room for society news and gossip column, illustrated with carefully selected photographs. 
A trip to Prague and strolls in the beautiful countryside will provide additional material to our program.

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Castle at Tucznie B (9-13)
14.07.2012-27.07.2012
Price: 2070,-
(www.zamek-tuczno.pl)

All lovers of suspense and scenery straight from horrors are invited to come the castle at Tuczno. During the camp you will watch two well-known and loved by younger viewers films : “A Series of Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket  and “Edward Scissorhands”- about a romantic and emotional character created by Stan Winston. These films will inspire you to create your own characters straight from Gothic tales, horrific yet romantic. We suggest that you write your own script of such a Gothic tale, situated in the castle and the surrounding park. Your scripts will be made into films, which will then be watched on a big screen in the park surrounding the castle. The program of the camp also includes a half-day canoeing trip down the picturesque river of Korytnica as well as numerous hiking trips to the lake located 800 m from the park. You may decide to make some of your films on location – the lake just before a rainfall looks gloomy and horrific….

Tleń C1 (9-13)
29.07.2012-11.08.2012
Price: 1950,-
(www.beniovita.pl)

Enchanted Faces or the Art of Photography

In the camp at Tleń you will be introduced to the world of photography and silent movies. You will learn about the history of first photographs and films. In our woodland summer cinema you will watch fragments of well-known turn-of the century films with Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers and Harold Lloyd. Then, after choosing the funniest and most interesting scenes, with the help of your English-speaking teachers you will prepare your own scripts for them. Then, after careful makeup, you will be ready to pose for stylized photographs! And then you will be able to uncover the secrets of the art of photography, both in its technical as well as artistic aspects. The photographic workshops at Tleń will be conducted by Magda Przybyłowska, who graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań this year. In the workshops you will build your own camera, which you will later  use to take photos, which in turn you will develop yourselves! All parents are invited to the exhibition of your photos at the end of the camp!
An additional attraction during the camp will be a trip to Szymbork, - an attractive town- in Kaszuby, where you will encounter some unusual sights.

Tleń C2 (13-17)
29.07.2012-11.08.2012
Price: 1950,-
(www.beniovita.pl)

A Mirror Image of American Mafia

Many blood-curdling adventures await you at the camp at Tleń. You will infiltrate the world of the mob and become members of the Family! The camp will start with the showing of two mafia films by great American directors. The action will take place in our open-air cinema on a big screen, to the accompaniment of rustling trees and among wafts of grasses. Such scenery for film watching is  bound to create a lot of emotions and thus motivate you to create excellent styling of characters straight from New York in the sixties and seventies. You will select a favorite scene from a mafia film to copy, which will then be photographed. Under supervision of Magda from the University of Arts in Poznań you will learn how to take portrait photographs, how to compose them, use proper lighting, style them and then prepare for use in the press. Afterwards, based on the films you have watched, you will write your own scripts for short plays in which you will act out the characters  of your choice. Your English-speaking teachers will help you to prepare the scripts and shows.
All our “Family” will go on a trip to the seaside and spend a day in Szymbork, at Kaszuby to vist this unusual place and sum up our “cosa nostra” experience.

Szkoła Języków Obcych
PROGRAM-Bell
ul. Fredry 1, 1p
61-701 Poznań