General English + Irish Culture Course – CEC-PCA
Cork English College

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Our English language + Irish Culture Course enables students to consolidate and improve their overall level in English while enjoying an introduction to Irish Culture through classroom sessions on Irish Culture as well as social and cultural workshops offering an immersion in Irish culture.

TARGET GROUPS:
- Teachers who teach in primary or secondary school or to adults.
- Teachers who would like to meet and share ideas with colleagues from other schools and countries.
- Teachers who need practical, useful ideas for their classrooms.
- Teachers who want to improve their own English language knowledge.

AIMS OF THE COURSE:
Course participants will learn about a range of aspects of Irish Culture from a selection of specially designed sessions including Irish music, literature, mythology, history, and food. Participants will also consolidate and improve their overall level of English through an integrated skills approach. In our mixed General English lessons, an emphasis is placed on listening comprehension, pronunciation, and spoken interaction. Improve your overall English on our General English + Irish Culture course and enjoy an academic, cultural, and social experience with us in Cork.

SAMPLE WEEKLY TIMETABLE:
1) Monday
- Induction, warmers and icebreaking activities
- Listening to an inter view Vocabulary recording: building a lexical notebook
- Cork City: Orientation Tour
2) Tuesday
- Language focus: grammar analysis and practice
- Reading and speaking: adrenaline junkies + talking about new sports and trends in free time
- Irish myths and legends
3) Wednesday
- Speaking: everyday activities and general trends + Present Simple and Continuous
- Listening/speaking: new year traditions around the world + Webquest: present a tradition from another country
- Visit to University College Cork
4) Thursday
- Finding things in common: agreeing and disagreeing.
- Writing: Email to a friend
- People: appearance and character vocablary
- Reading: matching descriptions to pictures
- Irish music and dance night
5) Friday
- Test and correction
- Pronunciation: Strong and weak forms of auxiliary verbs
- Listening/Video: travel show – places in America
- Speaking: design a tour of your country
- Visit to the Jameson Distillery

*** SATURDAY AND SUNDAY - Free Days or Full-Day Excursion (additional fees may apply)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The programme includes:
- 25 hours of tuition per week
- Use of all pedagogical material
- Maximum of 15 students per class
- Certificate at the end of course
- Social Programme
- Access to the E-Learning platform
- School Welcome Pack, Map and Notepad

IMPORTANT! - It's possible to book this course as a 6 day course (price - 520 EUR/week). The course then includes 1 full-day excursion on Saturday.

Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:

bilard *, bowling *, cycling *, horse riding *, piłka nożna *

boat cruises *, cinema afternoon/evening *, city tour/walk, conversation practice, country walk/trekking, cultural activities, dance lessons/workshops, dinner in a typical restaurant, extra grammar lessons, guided city tours *, guided museum tours *, international evenings, karaoke *, lectures on various topics, museum visits, orientation tour, pronunciation lessons/workshops, pub and restaurant evenings, shopping, theme workshops, visit to a brewery *, visits to music festivals *

Midleton Distillery *, Cobh *, Blarney Castle *, Kinsale and Charlesfort *, Cork City Gaol *, Cliffs of Moher *, Fota Wildlife Park *, Killarney Park and Torc Waterfalls *, Bunratty Castle *, The Ring of Kerry *, Kilkenny *, Crawford Art Gallery *, Abbey *, Jameson Distillery *

* zajęcia dodatkowo płatne