TOTAL IMMERSION

Language Spa in French and Dutch

Learn French or Dutch in the splendid surroundings of the Ecohome Cottage

A three day immersion in the target language offers, aside from pure language training, the possibility of combining other communication skills such as: interview technique, presentation skills, public speaking, .... Role-playing forms a part of the training.

Every course includes structure, grammar, vocabulary, (general or specific) comprehension and public speaking. Throughout coffee breaks, meals and even during the students free time the target language is mandatory. All training is conducted according to the Clients stated objectives.

Standard Total Immersion daily program:

07:00 : Smooth wake-up

07:30 : Repetition:
Repeat memo-technical sentences from previous day

08:30 : Total Immersion Breakfast
Teacher accompanied, coffee or tea with farm-milk, toasts with farm-butter, home-made marmalade, cheese, fresh eggs, regional honey, ham…

09:00 : Total Immersion Communication lesson MOD1:
Structural exercises on memo-sentences. Spontaneous speaking and story-telling, quiz, vocabulary (100 new words per day).
Recording memo-sentences.

10:30 : Break in the Zen-garden or at the Winter-terrace.
Possibility to discuss in the language to be learned with teachers and other course-participants during the coffee/tea break.
Possibility for communication through internet, cell-phone.

11:00 : Total Immersion Audio-visual lesson MOD2:
Structural exercises on the memo-sentences.
Text-recognition, vocabulary-development and exercising sentence structures on basis of news-sequence, video-recording in your domain. Recording memo-sentences.

12:00-13:30 : Total Immersion Group lunch with dialogue
Synchronising listening and spontaneous expression. Enjoy regional products and –recipes with teacher and other participants and invitees in the Language Spa, or Mont-Garni Golf Clubhouse.

14:00-15:30 : Total Immersion Roll-Play, situation lesson MOD3:
Structure-exercises of memo-sentences
• Phone-call discussion, adapted to your work, business situation
• Reading emails and reports
• Prepare a talk/application visit/promotion-discussion
• Realistic professional situations: promotional meetings, briefings etc…
• A reception, find your way in town, shopping…
Recording memo-sentences

And/or: Words in context:
• Vocabulary-development on basis of an object/article, your own (work)documentation, work- or sales-meeting to be planned
• Preparing a talk or exam together

15:30 : Break in the Zen-garden or at the Winter-terrace
During this break there is ample possibility to discuss with other teachers/course participants in the language-to-be-learned.
Possibility to communicate through internet or cell-phone.

16:00-19:00 : Total Immersion Sports and leisure
Golf (to be paid on the spot), horse-riding (to be paid on the spot), biking, walking, sauna, Jacuzzi, massage (to be paid on the spot), yoga-meditation, cooking.

19:00 Total Immersion Supper: Join the teacher-family at the supper-table
Synchronising listening and spontaneous expression. Enjoy regional products and –recipes with teacher and other participants and guests in the Language Spa, or Mont-Garni Golf Clubhouse.

20:00 Total Immersion TV: Watch the news together MOD4:
The 8 o´clock news, selecting the best-suited sequence for the next audio-visual lesson.

20:30 Accompanied studying and exercises
Memorising vocabulary, structures with teacher at hand or internet in all rooms.

Stay overnight in a comfortable single room with view of the wonderfully quiet surroundings

Flexibility: The standard program may be adapted to the participants´ wishes, before or after the start of the course.

Language Spa Total Immersion all-in Price: