Primary Courses

Our primary courses will take your students on an exciting journey as they learn to use more and more English. The youngest children will start as Climbers, and as their level improves, move on to be Trekkers, then Explorers and finally Rangers. There are eight primary programmes, two at each level.

Aims and Benefits of our Primary Courses

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Students will:

Have fun while learning English - and want to learn more!

Discover the importance of learning other languages by meeting native speakers

Develop their awareness and understanding of English-speaking cultures

Have a chance to ‘try out’ the language they have learnt in their classes - and see that it works!

Course Length & Structure

1 - Full Course

6 lessons per day (each lesson lasts 50 minutes)5 days (usually Monday – Friday)25 hours total

A Typical Full Course

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Lesson 1

Communicative lessons based on the English in Action book

English sports and games

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Crafts and Project work

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Drama and Songs / Preparing for show

Show

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2 - Half Course

3 lessons per day (each lesson lasts 50 minutes)5 days (usually Monday – Friday)12.5 hours total

A Typical Half Course

Both the full and half course options are available over:

1 week

25 hrs or 12.5 hrs

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Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

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2 weeks

50 hrs or 25 hrs

Lesson 1

Communicative lessons based on the English in Action book

Lesson 2

Drama and Songs / Preparing for show

Show

Lesson 3

This is a sample only and can be adapted

Please note: For a half course you must have an even number of groups (e.g. 2 groups = 1 EIA teacher, 4 groups = 2 EIA teachers etc). The groups will be taught consecutively (e.g. group 1 - morning, group 2 – afternoon).

Topics

At the start of the primary series the theme is children’s daily lives with topics such as family, feelings, people, holidays, hobbies and school.

Further up the series, especially in the Explorers and Rangers programmes, many lessons feature topics from the wider world such as the Olympics, English-speaking countries, the planets and healthy eating.