Welcome

to the unique and effective program

of language immersion "Discovering the USA"

from 21 to 23 of October 2011

Have you ever dreamt of discovering America together with Christopher Columbus?

Benefit from this unique opportunity to spend an unforgettable weekend and participate in "Discovering the USA" program from 21 to 23 of October 2011.

Our program offers exciting English language immersion under professional coaching from foreign and Russian tutors in various forms:

• Indian Treasure Hunting
• Visiting Texas, California, Arizona, Florida
• Stimulating interactive American interest clubs
• Participation in the fight for American Independence/span>
• Training and presentation of American dances
• Visiting the NASA space centre
• An unforgettable trip to Hollywood
• Overview of traditional American cuisine
• Popular American songs and films
• Sports games and exciting team competitions in the fresh air
• Celebration of the famous American Thanksgiving Day with a special barbeque!!!

The recreation centre is located in the picturesque countryside of the campus “Skazka”, near Volzsky. The centre provides a complete package ensuring you have all you need for an enjoyable weekend: high quality meals with traditional American dishes, excellent facilities for sports events, cultural and creative activities, and entertainment.

An exciting and informative linguistic program will enable you not only to enhance your English-speaking skills, compare British and American variants of the English language, but also to break the language barrier and have fun.

A short summary of American clubs:

1. American Art Club

An overview of the world of American art, development of creative skills, applied art technologies, activation of vocabulary, connected with drawing, various types of materials, drawing implements, etc. Master class by a professional artist.

2. Welcome to Hollywood

Peculiarities of movie making in the USA, visiting famous film studios, introduction to the lifestyle of Hollywood stars: their biographies, secret of success, unexpected facts of their lives, interviews, video filming the author’s movie about America.

3. American Lifestyle Club

An overview of American culture, tourist attractions and traditions, discussion of the national stereotypes, lifestyle and peculiarities of mentality, study of American music, dances and the most unbelievable ways of entertainment. Comparison of American and British variants of the English language.

4. American Celebrities Club

Meeting outstanding people of America in various fields, their biographies, secrets of success and the most interesting facts of their lives.

5. Movie-club

Films about Scotland, film-based communicative tasks provided by the most effective English language teaching methods.

Exciting communication only in English during the program in the creative atmosphere of interest and unexpected discoveries won’t leave you disappointed. Just add a cowboy hat, rock-and-roll, a bottle of Coca-Cola and you will fall in love with the American life-style immediately.

The program “Discovering America” will enable you to:

• develop all kinds of communicative skills in real-life and training situations
• enhance your vocabulary to help you communicate on different topics
• review the main grammatical structures
• improve pronunciation
• enhance your knowledge in country studies
• increase motivation to study the English language further

The American lifestyle and this terrific linguistic program will fill you with fantastic energy, the spirit of freedom and independence!