📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Teaching kids English in fun and interactive way staying in the heart of magical Tallinn
Project
This project is organized for teenagers by the language school In Down Town and non-profit educational association Alternative Language Programs Satellite within its annual activities on multicultural issues for teens. The project’s aim is to introduce the diversity of world cultures to the youth and provide them with practices in intercultural communication using the learning-by-doing method which includes meetings, visits, direct contact to young people from abroad as well as alternative language practice. The project gets 14 to 17 years old teens familiar with national traditions of the countries from all over the world, encourages them to develop their global thinking and individual initiative as well as tolerance and resistance to xenophobia and ethnic hatred. This shift targets particularly those youngsters, who do not speak English but other languages. Thus, camp has 3 working languages: French, German and Spanish. This year camps’ topic is "Gardens of Babylon". The main idea will be to discover which impact has the plant health on people and on the planet as whole. What are the main problems of plants, what we can do ourselves to take good care of them. During camp there will be meetings, discussions with local and international professionals of this field. Thematic photo and video contests for volunteers and camp participants will be organized.
💼 What the programme involves
Activating teenage participants in the city camp and providing them with cross-cultural learning experience. Volunteers will do it through informal methods of teaching and working in small group techniques. Among the activities to be held by team of volunteers are playing games and music popular in the countries that volunteers represent, drama, sports, preparing festivals, common discussions, excursions, actions for peace and nature protection, leading and supporting teens in their work on the team projects.; preparing and leading the teen teams’ presentations on the countries the camp participants and volunteers are from. Each day of the camp will have a country presentation, a subject to learn or discuss and a related activity. Volunteers are responsible for the day activities in the camp. The work can be pretty hard, involving long working hours, requiring high level of commitment and responsibility for the camp program and the young participants. You will stay with teens 10.00 – 17.00 and spend another hour to prepare next day activities. In the course of camp there is at least one day of travel outside Tallinn together with teens. Before activities start there will be 2 days training in the Language School In Down-Town camp methodology and preparation. Most of local teens in the camp are Russian-speaking youngsters from minority group of Tallinn. Besides local teens 6 teenage participants from abroad are expected to join this camp. The total number of participants is 12-15.
🏠 Accommodation on site
On beds in the class rooms of the Language School In Down-Town, in the centre of Tallinn. Toilets and showers are available. You will have breakfasts and dinners at the place of accommodation; lunches will be organized for whole camp in the city centre. Please note: it is not possible to stay at this accommodation before or after the camp. If you need a place to stay, we can help you to book a youth hostel in Tallinn.
📍 About the location
Location
Camp takes place in school situated in the centre of Tallinn, Estonian capital www.visittallinn.ee/eng
The meeting place will be in the school In Down Town at 14:00 on camp arrival date at Joe str 3, Tallinn
Leisure time
There are a lot of possibilities for leisure time activities as the camp will take place in the Estonian capital Tallinn where one can find attractions for any taste: sightseeing, museums, festivals, concerts, pubs, etc.