Excellence in English - language teaching organisation which offers tailor-made English language training

General English Courses for Closed Groups

Dates:	On demand (but summer months get booked up quickly)
Type of course:	For groups of up to 25 students. These groups are formed by the clients, not by Excellence in English, therefore groups come from the same country and are often friends or colleagues.
Age:	18 +
No. of hours’ tuition:	3+ hours per day (maximum 6)
Days available:	Monday-Friday
Start day:	Flexible
Minimum no. of days:	5
Course content:	Tailor-made to client’s needs
Tuition:	Course director + support tutors (minimum 2 tutors per course)
Training location:	Training centre in Cromer or Sheringham
Social programme:	Full programme of sports and social events available
Cultural programme:	Organised in consultation with the group and can include theatre, cinema, concerts, churches, places of historic interest, local cultural activities.
Accommodation:	Local homestay hosts, hotel, pub, Guesthouse, B & B. Dinner, bed and breakfast. (Please see accommodation page for details of cost)
Insurance:	Fully comprehensive insurance is available on request.
Transfer:	Available from Norwich airport, bus or train station. From London airports by arrangement at extra cost.
Course cost:	As an illustration, a group course for two weeks, including 50 hours’ tuition, all materials, homestay accommodation, with social, cultural and sporting programme, all meals except weekday lunches with airport transfer costs £630 for the two weeks if there are 20 people on the course.

Now read about a recent course:

Since 1998 we have run courses for groups of Austrian adults, all of whom were connected in some way with teacher training colleges in Austria. The majority of the participants were teachers or teacher trainers, but some were partners of teachers attending the course, with no professional connection with education. Everybody wanted an English language improvement course, but they were a mixed ability group with different reasons for needing English. So, after considerable negotiation – including one tutor going to Vienna to meet the participants and plan the course – the two course tutors, Peter Maingay and David Eastment, designed a course that looked like this:

Mornings: General English in two groups, with teachers responding all the time to individual and small group needs.

Afternoons: Study Centre work with three teachers available to advise and teach small groups and individuals. This in fact became a regular lesson with one tutor for participants with a lower level of English and small group, short tutorials for the others. The focus of these short tutorials was always chosen by the participants.

Evenings: a very busy social programme, often with the families the participants were staying with.

On this course, some participants chose to stay with families and some chose to stay in guesthouses.

Their coments:

"Just perfect. But sometimes I felt a bit guilty that I was living in such a wonderful place."

"I enjoyed every part of this course. Thank you."

So if you and a group of friends or colleagues want an enjoyable and useful course with us, contact us immediately and we’ll plan a course with you to suit you.

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Please note – the summer months get booked up quickly. If you are booking at short notice there is greater availability between November and March.

...courses to suit your specific needs