Teenage Residential (12-15)

• 2 or 4 week courses, recommended for teenagers aged 12 -15 *
• Residential accommodation
• Secure environment with 24-hour supervision
• Elementary to Advanced levels (no beginners)
• 15 hours of lessons per week
• Maximum class size is 12 students
• Excellent mixture of nationalities
• Wide choice of afternoon sports and activities
• Full evening entertainment programme
• Tennis courts, sports hall, pitches and indoor swimming pool
• Regular weekly excursions
• All costs included in course price
• * In special circumstances, CAE reserves the right to accept students of minimum age 11; maximum age 16

• Students can enrol for 2 or 4 weeks
• 15 full hours of lessons per week
• An integrated programme of language lessons, afternoon activities, evening entertainment and visits
• Learn the English you need by doing the things you like to do
• Enjoy a full social programme in the afternoon and evening
• Daily CAE Portfolio and Homework session
• All meals provided at the school
• Regular weekly excursions. Students usually visit London and Cambridge as well as other local destinations.

• Maximum class size of 12 students
• All students are interviewed and tested on arrival
• Classes are allocated by language level, nationality mix, age and gender
• 15 full hours of lessons per week
• Level-based Project work classes give students a chance to practise all four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking
• Excursion Classes (preparation and follow up) link up the classroom language to the English-speaking environment
• Daily Portfolio and Homework sessions give you time to review your progress, complete homework tasks and take part in Student Committee meetings
• Free learning materials
• Teenagers prepare a special CAE Portfolio to take home as a record of their achievements on the course
• Students receive an end of course report and CAE Course Certificate.

In the Afternoons

• Choose a Daily Sign up Activity – do something different every day
• and Sign up for a Weekly Activity – watch your progress and develop your skills

CAE OBH @ Bedford School offers you some great activities and sport every weekday afternoon. There’s a fully equipped gym, indoor swimming pool, tennis courts, playing fields, cricket pitches and a large sports hall. In additon to music rooms, an arts centre and a theatre. Everyone will have favourites but we also encourage you to try something completely new!

• Sports
  ( Swimming Basketball, Tennis, Squash, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Netball…)
• Art and Crafts
  (Drawing, Face Painting, Card making, Jewellery design, T-shirt painting…)
• Activities
  (Drama, Juggling, Music, Reading club, Cookery, Dance, Chess…)
• Local visits
  (Bowling, Museum visits, Market surveys, Town trails…)

In the Evenings, join in the fun

• Cinema visits
• Discos and Karaoke
• Theme parties
• Quizzes
• Team competitions

England is our classroom!

• Students get the chance to use their English in real situations
• Students will most likely visit London and Cambridge as well as other local destinations
• Learn about the places you are visiting before the trip and talk or write about them when you get back to class.
• Students are issued with a CAE Identity Card. You must carry this card at all times.
• Students are supervised at all times. Older students may be allowed a short period of free time for souvenir shopping.

• Bedford School is a private boarding school. In summer it becomes the centre for our CAE residential courses.
• The school is a beautiful and safe site, and is surrounded by its own large park and gardens.
• Bedford School is in a secure leafy residential area near the town centre. It is less than an hour by road from Cambridge and an hour and a half from London. It is home to all three of our summer residential young learner courses.
  

• Students sleep in dormitories of up to 5 students.
• There are also some single and twin rooms.
• There is a mix of nationalities in each bedroom
• Sleeping arrangements are made in advance and we encourage students to make new friends and speak English in the boarding houses
• Friends or siblings travelling together may not share rooms. They may be in rooms near to each other but not in the same room.
• Teachers sleep in staff bedrooms next to the student dormitories and members of staff are on duty throughout the night.
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided in the school dining room. On excursion days students receive a packed lunch.

• Students are escorted to and from Bedford School for all airport transfers.
• On the Sunday before the course begins, all students are met at the airport by a CAE representative.
• On the Saturday at the end of the course, students are taken back to the airport, and helped with their check-in. CAE representatives will remain in the airport until the plane has departed.
• There will be an additional charge for any arrivals, departures or extra nights outside our set days and times.
• Teenage students who are flying alone are encouraged to register with the airline’s Unaccompanied Minor Service when booking their flight.

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A Typical CAE Summer Course Day at Bedford School

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

Please note this is a sample timetable. Exact timings are subject to change.

A typical weeks study during the Summer term: