Language Activities

Language Activities enable students to focus on developing their speaking and communication skills through a range different task-based activities. By learning how to do a practical skill, with the instruction being given in English, students’ vocabulary is extended and their language learning is reinforced.

• Students take a different Language Activities lesson every day and the classes are led by our teachers or by specialist teaching staff.
• Each Language Activities lesson is usually a stand-alone activity.
• Note that the Language Activities lessons are not part of the Intensive English Course for Beginners.
• Here are some example of previous Language Activities lessons:

Art & Design – creating a comic strip starring a member of St Bede’s staff
Cookery – making delicious “rocky road” crunchy snack bars
Composition – writing the lyrics of a Summer School song and setting the words to music
Design & Technology – designing and making a cool luggage label to take home
Dance – choreographing the St Bede’s Summer School street dance
Drama – writing/directing/performing a short dramatic piece
Film Making – writing/performing/editing a St Bede’s Summer School video diary
Information, Communications & Technology – designing a webpage
Journalism – producing the St Bede’s Buzz – the Summer School newsletter