Eot london student ebrochure 2012

London
Brochure 2012

Top 10 EU Practice : Teaching
English using Social Media 2012

Contents
What is Out There? 3
Why was it created? 4
How was it created? 5
What method is it based on? 6
What is Constructivism and how does it relate to Out There? 7
The Learning Pyramid and Out There 8
Email conversation with an agent – What we do and why we 9
do it (1)
Email conversation with an agent – What we do and why we 10
do it (2)
The course 11
Inside the classroom 12
Outside the classroom 13
Sample week of Out There 14

Sample Advanced lesson plan 16-18
Sample Elementary lesson plan 19-21
What makes Out There so different? 22
Before and after videos 23
Typical client comments 24
Individual course fees 2009 25
Cost of living in London 26
Those really important questions answered 27
Booking and terms and conditions 28
Where and how to find us… 29-30

2 12 March, 2012 info@eduadvisors.eu

What is Out There?
 It is a specially designed and highly
effective short language course

 It covers all skills – reading , writing,
speaking and listening

 It combines teaching with social and
cultural learning activities

Why was it created?
 To be the best short language
course available

 To facilitate real practice

 To help clients improve quickly


How was it created?
 Lateral thinking

 Research

 Real feedback from students


Watch videos about
EOT in London

http://youtu.be/LtwjlqChGJY http://youtu.be/V014sZHOq4k
Learn about the course and watch Listen to London EOT teachers
some EOT classes on the street talk about teaching the course


What method is it based on?
Out There is based upon the Communicative Method, which most
study abroad schools use around the world, but it uses a redesigned
lesson plan format that is used in every single session.

This new format means that real practice of the target language
happens minutes after the language has been taught.

However, the course is also Constructivist in nature and includes
elements of psycholinguistic research and the application of
practical memory enhancing techniques that lead to improved
‘memory mapping’.

All of this helps clients to remember the target language better
and to feel much more confident.


What is Constructivism and how does it relate
to Out There? (i.e. what happens in your head!)
Links that create understanding and

Out There help recall. i.e. “This new
language…”
language ” is similar to…”
focus i.e. ” is related to…”
new learning “is because….”

Sights, sounds,
smells and
emotions.

Original source:
www.geoffpetty.com or in Mujis, D.
Existing language knowledge + Out There & Reynolds, D. (2001)
location for the session + the real experience of
what actually happened

The Learning Pyramid: The recall rate of different
teaching strategies. The National Training
Laboratories (US) Source: www.geoffpetty.com or in Mujis, D. &
Reynolds, D. (2001)

Student’s
recall rate

Listening 5%
Students Receive
Information
i.e.Conventional
Reading
classroom based
10 %
teaching
Students are
Increasingly Audio -Visual
active, and 20 %
challenged.
Experience is Demonstration
increasingly 30 %
practical and
multi-sensory Discussion groups 50 %

Students
Practice by doing 75 % Apply their
Learning i.e.
Out There
Teach others/immediate use of learning 90 %


Email conversation with a well-known online language travel
agency, from August 2008. Founder, Jason West writes:
There is still a lot of misunderstanding in the study abroad/TEFL community about our lessons.
I think maybe that is because virtually all other schools and courses are based solely upon the
communicative method and a lot of generic course books and materials are used that were
designed for the global market and rely on methodology adopted in the 60‟s and 70‟s that does
not take into account the psychological processes of information storage and retrieval, i.e. memory.

Our lessons are based upon constructivist and psycholinguistic principles so that each and every
three hour session becomes an individual experience for each and every student and they end up
with a unique „story‟ in their mind based upon the language they studied in the class and then immediately
used with people they had never met before in a different interesting place each day.

The added element of having to perform (adrenaline) plus the sights, smells and sounds of where they go create a
multi-sensory „mind-map‟ around the target language and thus create cognitive markers that when they need to use
the language again enable them to recall one or more elements of the experience (whether they naturally use
emotional, visual, olfactory or audio triggers, or more likely a combination, to link information together and retrieve it
for repeated use).

There is also the likelihood that the immediate feeling of achievement that they get when they meet someone new
and use new language with them successfully, or language they have revised but do not normally incorporate into
their spoken communication, produces the secretion in the brain of a chemical called phenyethylamine which can be
found in chocolate and is often associated with feelings of „love‟. Of course it would be a very small dose in the case of
our students but that feeling of success and achievement with a friendly stranger who has helped them and given
them their time makes them feel good about themselves. That emotional response also contributes to the mind-map
and the overall memorability of the whole experience.

These aren‟t just the wild and fanciful thoughts of me and the team at Out There, I‟ve discussed what we do with
some famous professors of linguistics and psycholinguistics and I thought the active agent might have been
endorphins, but they suggested phenyethylamine, which kind of makes sense to us now!

10 Continued…
12 March, 2012 info@eduadvisors.eu

Continued…email conversation with a well-known
online language travel agency
Re: which level our lessons suit best… You know, some people in our industry (and I‟m thinking about agents here)
think it is best for higher levels (KUB in Serbia for example) and they send us English graduates from Belgrade
University who are training to be English teachers. They think that the course „turns passive knowledge into active
knowledge‟ based upon the premise that years of conventional study result in high abilities to read and write but
that a lot of the language stored in the memory is not used to produce language when they speak, it has to be
coaxed out as confidence increases and the user has to be less afraid of making mistakes. Once they have revised
it and used it with someone they have never met before, it is easier to use again next time they need to use it.

This is very obvious with Far Eastern students who might have a high level of reading and writing but a low level of
speaking and listening. Our conjecture as to why this happens is that the learners „output filter‟ (the psychological
process that at worst makes you unable to speak or at best interferes slightly with your ability to speak fluently and
naturally) is being lowered by the effect of our lessons.

Other agents think that the lessons are great for lower levels because they guide and support learners through the
emotional jungle related to the fear of making mistakes and teach them that communication and not always
accuracy, is the most important thing. So low levels lose their fear of speaking and become more experimental.
They also get going with the basics, i.e. drilled and then used. It can be scary, but they get supported by the
teacher and the other students whilst outside and the teacher becomes more a guide or facilitator. Think of our
lessons as being the half-way point between the „safe‟ confines of the conventional classroom environment and the
„scary‟ real world. We try to „bridge‟ the gap and help learners over their anxiety, because when anxiety reaches a
certain level it can stop you from speaking.

So I would suggest that the lessons do slightly different things at different levels. Low levels get a quick way to get
going with simple language and start communicating, high levels revise and use language they wouldn‟t normally
use when speaking but already know how to write and read, plus they pick up a lot of natural new vocab across
the board.


The course
 Helps you to speak real English
 Is social and a lot of fun
 Works in different ways at different levels:
 Beginner – increases confidence and helps „survival‟
 Advanced – very high level language + real „street‟
vocabulary
 Six levels when we are busy
 3 hours per session – most lessons start and
finish Out There
 Our own professionally published materials are
included


Stage 1- Input
 Meet teachers at
specially selected
locations
 Grammar
 Vocabulary
 Skills
 Controlled practice


Stages 2 - Activity and 3 - Result
 Convenient active practice location nearby
 Real practice of listening, speaking, reading and writing with your teacher
next to you
 Use language just learnt in shops, galleries, markets, museums, train
stations... and by talking to people.
 Every activity outside carefully planned and prepared, and every day
something new and challenging
 Feedback and learning experience consolidation


Sample week of Out There
Intermediate Aim/topic Venue Language focus

Mon London Calling – get Leicester Recommending and trendy
recommendations Square or vocabulary for activities in the
similar place city

Tue Observation – people South Bank or Past Simple/Continuous and
and events other / appearance
alternative wet
weather task
in gallery
Wed Manners – what do you Embankment Giving opinions and idioms
think? Gardens or
similar place

Thu Technology and Science Modals of probability and
possibilities Museum – certainty
computing: a
history of
Fri Shopping John Lewis Shopping vocabulary,
department comparatives / superlatives
store


Level 6 (advanced) plan
Note the format through the whole 3 hour
session:

Input – like conventional teaching but in
preparation for the activity

Activity – in the real world outside of the
classroom, this is when the teacher‟s presence
acts as support and facilitator to the student
enabling them to speak to people they have
never met before about this topic (this can also
be done online and recorded)

Result – once they have received some
answers from a few people they write them
down, have a chat and (we don‟t mind this at
all) maybe talk about other stuff that they want
to they then sit down with the teacher and go
over the responses they have received, the
taught language and any new language that has
come out during the activity.

Level 2 (elementary) plan

Note the format through the whole 3 hour
session:

Input – like conventional teaching but in
preparation for the activity

Activity – in the real world outside of the
classroom, this is when the teacher‟s presence
acts as support and facilitator to the student
enabling them to speak to people they have
never met before about this topic (this can also
be done online and recorded)

Result – once they have received some
answers from a few people they write them
down, have a chat and (we don‟t mind this at
all) maybe talk about other stuff that they want
to they then sit down with the teacher and go
over the responses they have received, the
taught language and any new language that has
come out during the activity.


What makes Out There so different from
other courses?
 „Passive knowledge becomes active knowledge‟
 „Location Specific‟ – hear modern language use from the
locals themselves
 Motivates and boosts confidence, lowering the student‟s
„output filter‟ and creating an „instant buzz of success‟
 Cultural exploration
 Active + great fun


Before and After
Over the summer of 2006 we shot some video of students during their placement
interviews and before they followed their EOT course in London. We then videoed them
again during a similar interview, just before they left to go home. We call them our
„Before and After‟ videos. Most students were on very short courses of between two to
four weeks. Everyone who took part gave us written permission to use their clips and we
hope to be able to put these and all of the others on the website soon. Thanks to
everyone for playing along with us! See if you can identify any improvement in the
English of Jakob, Eri and Florent? Click on the links below.

Jakob, Czech Rep. 2 week course
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5P0aDWTOWs
After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF1pkfvIyA

Eri, Japan. 4 week course
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRPo3piBls
After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrUYkrehQk

Florent, France. 2 week course
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNKBbG_IvM
After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytvOODa1zI


Students talk about
their EOT experience
“I think that the idea of going
outside after learning grammar
and vocabulary is perfect,
because we can use them after
the lessons. It‟s good to
memorize them!!” Natsu (Japan)

“New experience, new form of
studying” Paulina
http://youtu.be/eefnCIroNGk
(Czech Republic)
“It was very good, especially because the lessons aren‟t boring like the
others” Mari (Italy)

“Something special, new, interesting” – Rachel, (Switzerland)

“It is very funny to learn English at this school, when you are
scared to speak with people you must visit this school” – Claudia
(Germany)


Individual course fees 2012
Just 125 GBP per week
That's just 8.33 GBP per hour in a small
class of max. 10 students.
N.B. All EOT fees include all course materials, extras
You can buy pre-paid vouchers for 15, 30, are… money for travel on public transport during
45 and 60 hours on our website. class and for refreshments.

The voucher is emailed to you Public Holidays – please note there are no lessons on
automatically once you have paid. So you public holildays.
get everything you need to come and
study in London in minutes. To book see instructions and terms and conditions on
page 21.

Click here to book your English
Out There lessons


Cost of living in London
Living in the UK – particularly London – is expensive compared to many places in the world. The cost
of living will of course depend on the individual situation (and tastes!) of each of your clients, but
they still need to be prepared financially
Cost of transportation Cost of food & drink
Visitor Oyster card Average weekly grocery bill (including food, basic laundry and toiletry
£18.00 items for 2 people)
£100
Cost of entertainment
Movie Average pub meal
£7-£15 £6 - £12
West End Theatre Average restaurant meal
£25+ £12 - £20
Club Entry Pint of beer
£5 - £20 £3.00 - £4.00
Live music/concerts Average bottle of wine
£10+ £10
Average meal for two in mid-priced restaurant
£50


Those really important questions…answered
Question: What time do I have to report to the school on Q: What is the maximum, minimum, and average number of
my first day? students in a class between Nov and April?
Answer: Before you come to London you should visit Meetup.com A: Minimum 4, maximum 10.
and our pages on the website. This is where our lessons are Q: How many students do you have at your school?
scheduled. You must become a member of the EOT Meetup A: Minimum 10, maximum….
group (free) and then RSVP for the classes you wish to take.
Here‟s the link: http://www.meetup.com/English-Out-There- Q: How many levels does the course have?
London-3-hour-taught-lessons/ A: 6 when it is busy.
Q: What do I have to bring with me? Q: How long does it take you to process application forms i.e.
A: A pen and a notebook, a travel pass (Oyster) and you should issue the letter of acceptance, invoices?
wear comfortable footwear. A: Normally 3 to 4 minutes.
Q: What if I choose the wrong level for my first class? Q: Do you organise accommodation?
A: If at the end of your first class both you and teacher think it was A: Yes, we have prices that include accommodation. Look on our
the wrong level, you get the lesson for free and the teacher will website or talk to your agent.
recommend a class for you and help you to find it on the
website.
Q: Do students need to buy any textbooks?
A: No, we use our own published materials developed and taught
over eight years and published for teachers and learners on our
website.
Q: What kind of facilities does your school have?
A: We teach out in the real world our admin is all done online. This
enables us to keep costs low and pay teachers a good hourly
rate.
Q: Has your program changed since last year?
A: Start times vary, look at http://www.meetup.com/English-Out-
There-London-3-hour-taught-lessons/
Q: Is there an age limit?
A: Individuals: 16 years minimum, no maximum.
Q: Where is the course taught and by whom?
A: Teachers who are members of the Languages Out There website
teach the course anywhere they like. They schedule classes on
Meetup.com.


Terms and conditions…
CANCELLATION & REFUNDS:
Must be notified in writing by email as soon as possible.
Refunds will only be issued to clients who cancel their
voucher prior to using any of their credit and prior to the
date that they intended to commence studying. Once a INSURANCE:
voucher has been activated and some credit used (i.e. one Clients are advised to take out medical and personal insurance
lesson has been taken) we cannot refund any of the value of before leaving their home country (Not applicable for EU
the voucher. Vouchers are not transferable from person to citizens studying in the UK). Moreover, clients are also advised
person. to insure themselves against loss of fees through non-arrival,
absence for any reasons, or unforeseen termination of their
COURSE CHANGES: courses.
If a change of start date is required, the client must notify
the school us as soon as possible. BEHAVIOUR:
Please note that we reserve the right to summarily cancel a
VISAS: voucher for any clients whose actions are deemed abusive or
destructive, or whose actions are deemed likely to significantly
We cannot support visa applications. increase the risk of injury to themselves or others.

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS: CLASS TIMES:
No lessons will take place on public holidays unless individual Clients start times are decided by the teachers, the times can
teachers decide they want to do this. No refunds will be depend on the client‟s Language level. Most classes will start
made for these days. Out There and the location for the venues and directions can
be found on Meetup.com. In the summer from July to August
RESPONSIBILITY: classes generally begin in the morning at either 9am or
The school is not liable for the loss of personal objects on the 10.30am and last 3 hours. There maybe other times available
premises or the safety of clients during the lessons or whilst in the summer and even at weekends. Please check our
on any premises where a lesson is about to or is in fact Meetup.com pages for scheduled classes. We reserve the right
underway. Clients enter one of our lessons at their own risk to change class times, and it is possible to have start times in
and by booking a course with us agree to proceed on this the afternoon during high season.
basis exclusively (please read the disclaimer in the terms and
conditions of our website:
http://www.languagesoutthere.com/static/termsandconditions ), that‟s
why we highly recommend…


Where we http://languagesoutthere.podomatic.com/ Audio proof, up three levels in 6 lessons
www.EnglishOutThere.com Buy ebooks for self-study and teaching
are online www.LanguagesOutThere.com Concept and blog
www.Facebook.com/EnglishOutThere Fans & ask to join our Facebook EOT teachers
group
www.Gplus.to/EnglishOutThere Google+ Page, Hangouts and Circles
www.YouTube.com/user/languagesoutthere How to teach and study using EOT
www.Twitter.com/EnglishOutThere Followers
www.Wiziq.com/EnglishOutThere Online meeting and teaching space, with online class
demos

On the street:
www.meetup.com/English-Out-There-London-English-conversation Informal evenings
www.meetup.com/English-School-London-Out-There Small formal groups
www.meetup.com/English-Out-There-staff-room Teaching pool


Get Out There…and learn.
Since we started ten years
ago, 94% of our clients have
said that they would
recommend us.


The last word…from a student…
“I never thought that I would enjoy this school this
much. I think everyone must try something like that once
in a lifetime, it is just not good for your English, it is also
good for your entire life.”
Arda Ozdemir, Turkey


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