Family English Courses in the UK

Children

Adults

Please contact us to discuss your family course in detail.

Adults study at LanguageUK on either a standard course (15 hours a week) or intensive (23 hours a week).

The minimum course duration is 1 week.

Course option for younger learners 5 to 15 years

When we receive families, the adults take a course with us and the children and young learners take their courses separately in groups. The tutors are all qualified English teachers and have DBS checks (criminal record check which is obligatory to work with children).

The course for children and juniors will include:

• 15 hours’ English tuition in a group per week (maximum of 10 per class).
• All course materials.
• Lunch every day.
• Afternoon activity programme every day joining some of the other groups until 4.00 pm including all travel and entrance costs.
• End of course certificate.

Levels and ages

We would not mix children who have advanced and beginner levels and we try to put the children into small groups according to their age. Most of the children and young learners who have studied with us before are elementary to intermediate level. The maximum class size is 10. Our courses are not academic in that the children would not be covering mountains of grammar and vocabulary in the normal classroom environment. However, for the older children we do include some formal instruction. We do not test the children and our aims are not to re-create the same classroom environment the children might be used to back home. Having said this, our class aims and objectives are as follows:

• To give the children the opportunity to take part in a total English immersion programme where the language used by the tutor during the breaks, between the classroom activities and outside the actual class instruction is equally as important.

• To present and provide interesting projects, with topics for the children to participate in and where they will learn vocabulary and grammar usage through the practice of authentic activities. These activities could include: cooking, shopping for food, projects on historical places visited during the afternoons, keeping a diary, playing games and so on.

• To have fun but learn at the same time. We want the children to return back to their country having had a positive and memorable experience.

A Private Child Minder (For Babies and Toddlers)

We can arrange for your baby and toddler to go to a British child minder. A child minder is a qualified child carer who takes care of children under the age of five in her own home or our school. Both child minder and home are inspected before. A child minder would offer the children a home environment with up to just 7 other children. The children take part in organised play and will be in very good care. The child minder will also provide lunch.