One-to-one lessons for adults in summer

• individual attention from your own teacher

• focus on exactly what you need

• maximum progress in the shortest possible time

• boost your confidence and skills

Your chance to improve your English quickly

Age: 18+
Level: all levels
Length: one week+
Lessons: 10 or 15 or 25 lessons per week of individual tuition
(note: 1 lesson=55 minutes)

If you only have a week or two to spare, this programme allows you to focus directly on your own language development:

  1. Professional language in your chosen field (business, education, medicine, or travel, for example)
  2. Academic language for students, undergraduates, and postgraduates
  3. Personal language for confidence, examinations, travel, and leisure

The course path involves a number of critical stages supported by a tutor from our experienced team:

  • Self-evaluation (your “needs and wants”)
  • Diagnosis (analysis and targets)
  • Monitoring (progress checks and updates)
  • Self-study (preparation and follow-up tasks)
  • Feedback (continuous learning ideas)

Personal training

A personal trainer, in all walks of life, motivates their student by setting goals and providing feedback. In the same way, your one-to-one tutors at St Clare’s will help you to make the maximum English language progress in the shortest possible time.

Focus on your specific language needs

Our one-to-one lessons allow you to focus directly on your personal English language development in a short space of time. Over the past year, for example, we have built the confidence and improved the performance of individuals from across the world and supported their professional, academic, and personal language needs as follows:

1. Professional language — for business, finance, education, medicine, law

  • the language and strategies for good presentations and negotiations
  • cross-cultural sensitivity and awareness
  • drafting and re-drafting articles for professional journals

Recent trainees: a senior academic (the Netherlands), CEO media company (South Korea), legal adviser (Brazil)

2. Academic language — for students, undergraduates and post-graduates

  • note-taking and report writing skills
  • presentations for seminars
  • SATs: academic reasoning training
  • linguistic support for dissertations

Recent trainees: postgraduate student (United Arab Emirates), pre-Masters student (China)

3. Personal language — for confidence, examinations, travel, and leisure

  • voice training: projection, intonation and stress, accent reduction
  • support for “false beginners” who have a mismatch of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills
  • tips and practice for specific examinations — IELTS, Cambridge Exams, Business English Certificates (BEC)

Recent trainees: accountant (Qatar), retired businessman (Japan), fashion buyer (South Korea), property developer (Saudi Arabia), gap year student (Germany
The course path involves a number of critical stages supported by a tutor from our experienced team:

  • Self-evaluation (your needs and wants)
  • Diagnosis (analysis and targets)
  • Monitoring (progress checks and updates)
  • Self-study (preparation and follow-up tasks)
  • Feedback (continuous learning ideas)

Our One-to-One team
We have a wide panel of tutors with English language and life skills. You can be sure that the Director of Studies matches our expertise to your personal needs.

Calculate the cost of your course now

Contact the Department
Please do contact us with any questions you may have about the course, the accommodation, the college, and what it is like to be a student here. We will be happy to help you to apply for the course.
Tom Whitehouse
Sales Coordinator
+44 1865 517331
tom.whitehouse@stclares.ac.uk
Manuela Williams
Admissions Registrar
+44 1865 517706
manuela.williams@stclares.ac.uk
Bardwell Road Campus
St Clare’s Oxford – 18 Bardwell Road – Oxford – OX2 6SP – UK
Office hours: Monday – Friday 0900-1700 GMT

Trip to Windsor Castle

As just one of many trips and excursions offered to students studying on our Summer School we took a trip on a glorious sunny day to Windsor Castle, one of the many homes of Her Majesty The Queen. Windsor is only a 1 hour drive from Oxford. Have a look at some of the...

Course dates

Students start lessons on a Monday (arrival day Sunday) after an initial English level assessment.

2017
25 June 9 July 23 July
30 July 13 August 20 August
Tuition fees
One-to-One lessons until August 2017
10 private lessons per week £550
15 private lessons per week £825
25 private lessons per week £1375

Minimum stay is two weeks
(note: one lesson = 55 minutes

Accommodation options — summer 2017
Self catering — per week
Twin Standard £220
Twin Superior £267
Single Standard £284
Single Superior £348
Homestay — per week
(includes breakfast and dinner every day)
Single Standard — with shared bathroom £220
Single Superior — with private bathroom £290
Add meals
Lunch Monday to Friday £42 per week

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Dramatically improve your English this summer

while studying in the beautiful city of Oxford.

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