General English Programme

Our General English Programme is designed for Junior and Senior international students with an elementary to advanced level of English.

Juniors:      aged 8 - 12
Seniors:     aged 13 - 17
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Students in our General English Programme will receive 15 hours of classes per week with our qualified and experienced English Language Teachers.  Teachers at Kilgraston Summer School are trained to create a student-centred environment, where the focus is on building learner confidence and language fluency, at the same time as developing accurate English.

In addition to classes being arranged by age, students will also be classed according to their level of English.  To discover this, each student will do a placement test on Day 1 of the course.

Both Junior and Senior students will have 2 classes per day.  Both age groups will have a 2-hour General English class, which will focus on developing vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, as well as the four skills: speaking, writing, reading and listening. 

For the second class, Junior and Senior groups will be a little different.
Juniors: will have a 1-hour project-based class per day.  Students will work together in English on a creative project that will be presented to the whole Junior School at the end of the week.  Examples of projects could be creating a short play, making a board game, or inventing a crazy machine.
Seniors: will have a 1-hour life & communication skills class per day, which will have students work together in English on a task that will be presented to the whole Senior School at the end of the week.  Examples of these tasks could be delivering a group presentation, pitching an idea to a panel, or creating and presenting a poster project - skills that students can use in their future studies and in their future careers.

Class sizes have a maximum of 16 per class (but usually smaller), which means increased teacher-student time, and lets the teacher develop a greater understanding of students' needs. 

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Sample Timetable

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2021 Prices

One week:     £1000 per person
BUT - if you book in for more than 1-week, you pay £900 for each following week booked.

Price includes all tuition, activities, excursions, accommodation and airport transfers on arrival/departure days.

Course Objectives

We aim for students at Kilgraston Summer School, no matter what their level of English is, to leave us with more confidence in spoken and written English.  The following are examples of the level-specific objectives that students will focus on during their time with us:

Juniors
Elementary

• Students can talk about:
  • animals
  • differences between the past and the present
  • rules at home and school
  • what is good for/not good for the planet
• Students can interview an adult about life in the past
• Students can use polite language to ask for different things (e.g. for help, to use an object, etc.)
• Students can write:
  • a short description of an animal
  • a report of an interview
  • a list of school rules
  • a short description of a natural resource and how/why it's used

​Pre-Intermediate

• Students can talk about:
  • what they like doing in their leisure time
  • fixed plans and events in the future
  • music and musical instruments
  • household tools, materials and inventions
• Students can write:
  • a dialogue about a fun event in the past
  • an invitation to an event in the future
  • a comparison of two different objects
  • a short summary of a longer text

Intermediate

• Students can talk about:
  
  • space, astronomy and science fiction
  • food and food production
  • health and the human body
  • extreme weather and natural disasters
• Students can plan and conduct an interview
• Students can write:
  • a factual report using a 4-paragraph structure
  • a story about food
  • about what to do in an emergency

Upper-Intermediate

• Students can talk about:
  • endangered animals and conservation
  • making plans for a trip
  • money
  • self-expression through the arts
• Students can write:
  • a persuasive email
    
  • a short opinion essay
    
  • a summary of a longer text
    
  • a dramatic scene / short play

​Advanced

• Students can talk about:
  
  • the Earth and its natural resources
    
  • masks and disguises
  • language and communication
  • past historical events
• Students can write:
  • a speech
    
  • a personal narrative
    
  • a poem
    
  • about a memory​
    

Seniors
​Elementary

• Students can talk about:
  • themselves, their routines and their interests
  • giving / receiving directions (inside and outside a building)
  • the rules of playing a sport / game
  • a past event
• Students can order food in a restaurant / cafe 
• Students can write:
  • a self-introduction
  • a description of a place
  • about a past event

Pre-Intermediate

• Students can talk about:
  • an experience in the past and their feelings about it
  • film and the arts
  • problems and giving advice 
  • plans for a future event
• Students can write:
  • a story set in the past
  • about a process
  • a cohesive text, giving advice to a problem
  • a written plan for an event

Intermediate

• Students can talk about:
  • themselves and give personal information in a conversation
  • a journey / travel experience they have had
  • festivals and cultural events
  • art and culture
• Students can write:
  • a description of themselves and others
  • a reflective journal about a journey
  • an invitation and a written plan for an event
  • a story about something that happened in the past

Upper-Intermediate

• Students can talk about:
  • the future (making factual and fictional observations)
  • money, wealth and poverty
  • health, nutrition and health eating
  • threats to the planet and the environment
• Students can make speculations / deductions about the past / present by using visual prompts
• Students can negotiate and collaborate with each other to reach a common agreement
• Students can write:
  • a short science-fiction narrative
  • a description of statistical data

​Advanced​

• Students can talk about:
  • exceptional people
  • crime and safety
  • consumerism
• Students can give a presentation based on factual information
• Students can participate in a debate
• Students can write:
  
  • an email / letter of complaint
  • a report
  • an opinion essay