Eurolingua English Homestay - Oxford, England

  England

• Oxford: 
Oxford

Dates: Year round

Description: One-to-One Homestay, living in the tutor's home, including private room, individual and customised tuition, full-board (all meals), participation in family life and activities, cultural visits and excursions. Pick-up/drop-off at the nearest airport/railway station. A fantastic linguistic and cultural experience!!

Eurolingua One-to-One Homestay Programmes are available all year and are suitable for students of any age (16 - 75 years) and language level (beginner to advanced). Ideal for personal interest, business, travel or examination revision purposes. All Eurolingua tutors are fully-qualified teachers and native speakers, experienced in teaching their mother tongue as a foreign language.

The unique Eurolingua One-to-One Homestay Programme will ensure that you make maximum progress in the shortest possible time, whatever your starting level, beginner to advanced. You live full-board in the home of your fully-qualified foreign language tutor, receiving 4 hours per day (20 hours per week) of individual language tuition, specifically adapted to your own level, learning pace and interests, whether for business or pleasure!! The rest of the time you benefit from lots of conversational practice by participating in the usual everyday family activities of your personal tutor and family and by meeting people in the local community. You may, of course, have as much independent time as you wish. You acquire an authentic accent, total confidence and real fluency in the language.

Make spectacular progress in the shortest possible time. Individual tuition adapted to your own requirements, full-board accommodation (private room, all meals), local excursions and lots of fun!

Highlights: Oxford is a beautiful old city, with a world-famous university, set amidst lovely countryside. The house is detached house, with a medium-sized garden, in a conservation area situated on a hill to the north-east of the centre of Oxford. It is located within 20-25 minutes' walking distance from the city centre in which the colleges, museums, cafes and main shops are concentrated. There is a bus service every 10 minutes.

The house is on 2 floors, with 4 bedrooms, bathrooms, WC's. The student's room is quite small but comfortable. The main rooms are extremely light: L-shaped living room, with reading corner, dining-room, and conservatory, well-equipped with EFL textbooks, is used exclusively for teaching. It offers a view onto the garden where students can watch squirrels and birds. There is quite a large kitchen where we enjoy outdoor meals.

Less than 5 minutes' walk away are local shops, sub-post office, chemist's and small supermarket. slightly further. Shopping facilities in the centre are excellent with the usual highstreet stores and department stores as well as many more interesting individual shops, in some of the side streets, and especially in the covered market. Book shops are of particularly high quality. Internet cafes are also available in the centre.

Pubs, cafes and restaurants abound. Tucked away down an alleyway is one of the oldest pubs, the Turf Tavern, whilst a walk along the Thameside Path or across Port Meadow will bring students to The Trout, one of the prettiest and most famous. A pizzeria is to be found in the remains of an old church, and on the High Street is one of the oldest coffee houses in Europe.

Headington Hill Park is situated about 10 minutes' walk away. Students can walk or run to it along quiet paths. The University Parks are about 10 minutes' walk in another direction, and form part of the walk into the centre. There is a swimming pool, ice rink, various gyms and sport centres, including the recently opened David Lloyd Centre. For students who would like to try something new, punts can be hired on the River Cherwell, and more conventional boats are also available.
For weekend outings, London is within easy reach. Buses are cheap, run every few minutes and take about one and a half hours. There is a bus-station in the town centre, but there is also a bus-stop about ten minutes' walk from the house. Blenheim Palace, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Cotswolds are all popular local excursions. There are also a number of very pretty Thameside villages not far away, and plenty of walks in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Excursions and Local Attractions
Oxford is full of interesting tourist sights, Blenheim Palace, for example. In addition, we are members of the National Trust and take students to National Trust Properties in the nearby counties. We also take students for walks in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: please refer to the Eurolingua web site

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Participants Travel to England Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Exit DebriefingAbroad
• Job and Internship Network

Eurolingua Institute's Mission Statement: The Eurolingua Institute provides group and individual customized tuition in modern languages, paid work experience programmes, internships, and unique immersion programmes living in the teacher's own home. The Eurolingua Institute currently teaches 11 languages at over 70 schools in 40 countries and at over 150 homestay locations worldwide.

Year Founded: 1993