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Share Adventure Summer Course for Teenagers

• Age range: 12—16

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The Share Centre is located on a 60 acre site on the beautiful, tranquil shores of Lough Erne – part of the largest inland waterway in Europe. The centre's facilities offer something for everyone, including a gym, sauna, steam room, swimming pool, play park, pool hall and television room.

Other facilities include film making and special effects suite, disco and DJ booth, games room, 5-a-side football pitch, indoor games hall and of course the water sports playground of Lough Erne.

Share offers a total immersion activity-based course for young learners (aged 12-16).

The unique programme at Share is based on the following 3 concepts:

• Integration with local English speaking students on all activities
• Learning a new skill to gain an international certification
• Implementation of CLIL methodology (Content and Language Integrated Learning)

The programme provides a wonderful opportunity for students to practice and improve their English with local English speaking students while working towards internationally recognised sporting qualifications in sailing, windsurfing and kayaking.

Other activities include a wide variety of land and water sports and an arts and crafts programme covering over 30 different activities. Environmental education is at the heart of the Share Centre and is a constantly recurring theme throughout. Students learn about their environment and how they can minimise their impact and help to protect it.

These activities form the core of the programme which means that a large proportion of the language learning component of the course takes place outdoors. This programme is open to all abilities and students of all levels of English. It's a language programme like no other.

Share offers internationally recognised certifications for sailing, windsurfing (Royal Yachting Association), canoeing and kayaking (British Canoe Union)

Local teenagers come to Share to gain these qualifications as part of a multiactivity programme enabling us to offer a programme that fully integrates local and international students. Qualified English language teachers accompany professional instructors on all activities to ensure an authentic immersion experience and guarantee language learning support. Teachers give dynamic tutorials throughout the day and students get the chance to apply their existing knowledge of English in a real context. More importantly, they learn language needed to communicate in everyday situations, such as clarifying meaning, asking questions, giving explanations, greetings, interacting naturally and everything else that arises when communicating with local speakers of the target language.

When native English speakers and international students have a shared objective to learn a highly skilled activity, this opens up a channel of communication in which the possibilities for language learning are limitless. This programme guarantees total immersion in the English language.

Language is the channel through which new subjects and content are studied. The practice of that language is not just encouraged, it is essential

Why learn a new skill? Isn't English enough?

Learning a new skill, such as sailing, gives students extra motivation. It provides a backdrop against which English can develop.

How does this all work?

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is applied by schools that teach their curriculum through another language. The content is engaging and topical, and the programme is unique.

Instead of studying 3 hours each day in a classroom, students receive a full day of language learning outdoors. All numbers and ratios of local and international students are carefully considered to ensure learners maximise their use of English.

Students work in small groups with many native English speakers including their qualified language teacher. The full day's language is reviewed in a 2 hour classroom session at the end of each day's activities.

Course dates 2012

The course runs from July 2nd to July 14th and July 16th to July 27th.

Possible arrival dates are therefore as follows: July 1st and July 15th.

Course fees

• 2 weeks: £1,150

Price

• 2 weeks £1,150

Please note Students should book flights to arrive on the Sunday before the course starts and depart on the Saturday after the course finishes.

Insurance

In order to cover all possibilities students must take out travel insurance in their country of origin to cover any loss, illness or accident which may occur during the course.