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Who has participated in EF (English First) overseas summer camp?

Summer camp: making people happy and worrying.

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With the coming of summer vacation, some parents and children are considering participating in various summer camp activities. This can be verified by all kinds of summer camp advertisements and enrollment propaganda that are hotter than the summer heat in the market. After investigating the summer camp market in our city for many days, the reporter found that on the one hand, summer camp consumption is becoming a new hot spot of education consumption; On the other hand, it highlights its weakness in supervision.

Summer camp activities are heating up, and off-campus educational institutions are also surprisingly cutting "cakes"

Summer camp activities with healthy theme and colorful contents not only enliven children's summer life, promote their physical and mental health, but also broaden their horizons; It can not only be based on entertainment and leisure, but also be used as a practical exercise of various professional knowledge and theme content. In recent years, the summer camp activities in our city not only broke through the previous situation of moral education, but also included many aspects to promote children's all-round development, especially the training of oral English. From the organizational point of view, it has entered the market, and not only schools at all levels, travel agencies, especially off-campus educational institutions, have made their own unique skills to promote summer camp activities in full swing.

Off-campus educational institutions generally cooperate with some public schools in our city, such as No.1 Middle School, No.8 Middle School, Huiyang High School, Huizhou College, Huizhou Business School, Nantan Primary School, etc., which are their first choices.

On the afternoon of June 17, the reporter came to Hefei Education and Training Center. According to Miss Huang, Director of Education of the Center, the Education and Training Center (formerly Little Harvard) successfully held large-scale fully enclosed English summer camps in Huizhou College and Huiyang Middle School on May 438+0, 2006 and in 2002, respectively, and achieved good results. The number of students attending the summer camp has reached more than 600. In mid-July this year, they will jointly hold an intensive oral English training summer camp taught by foreign teachers with Shenzhen Children's Science Park and Huizhou Business School.

President Chen of Time Language Training School told the reporter that this year is the fourth year for the school to hold summer camp activities. A few years ago, it held several summer camps abroad and the results were satisfactory. Summing up the past experience, this year, in addition to strengthening oral English learning and listening training, we also arranged a variety of outdoor activities, sports competitions, cultural activities, cultural exchange activities between China and the United States. All this is done in English.

Mr. Wu, assistant principal of EF Education, told the reporter: In the past two years, EF organized students to hold summer camps in Australia and other countries. This year, EF will cooperate with Huiyang Senior High School to open the first summer camp to develop English potential for young people.

On the afternoon of June 20th, the reporter came to the Innovation English Training Center. According to Zhang, director of the center, this year's innovative English summer camp will be held in July. In addition to the local summer camp in cooperation with City No.1 Middle School, Liyang Crazy Oral English Intensive Training Camp will be held again.

On June 24th, the reporter came to Dahua Foreign Language Training Center. At that time, the center was holding the graduation ceremony of Dahua's first third-grade oral English class. About 200 Chinese and foreign teachers and students gathered together, and the scene was extremely warm. According to Ms. Xu, the executive director of the organization, the organization has successfully held many English winter camps and summer camps at home and abroad. This year's summer camp, they will organize two camps to be held in Tsinghua University Zhuhai Science and Technology Park. At the same time, a two-day tour of Macao was interspersed, including a visit to the University of Macau. The summer camp activities launched by Xiaoshumiao English Training Center are supported by the unique "2+ 1" English thinking training of Shutong Longman, and authoritative institutions monitor the teaching materials and teaching process. Even Huizhou China Travel Agency has launched a summer camp for primary and middle school students in Huicheng District to practice and experience life in rural areas.

At present, the advertising war of summer camp enrollment has reached a white-hot level. In addition to media advertisements, various leaflets also flew to the hands of primary and secondary school students who are about to spend the summer vacation. The number of people who consult and sign up for summer camps abroad in some education and training centers has been increasing since they advertised in newspapers. Now many parents still come here to eat and live with American teachers and students for their children.

Summer camps are varied, and parents are most concerned about whether their children can learn anything.

After several days of in-depth interviews, the reporter found that the methods and characteristics of summer camps in our city can be roughly divided into three categories: quality-oriented summer camps, such as sports, art and psychological quality training; Learning summer camp outside the classroom; Tourism summer camp to increase knowledge. These three types of summer camps each occupy a certain market share, but the learning category is the most optimistic, reflecting parents' desire for success.

Xiao Huang, a junior two student in No.8 Middle School, said: I don't like learning English. I went to Hong Kong to attend a summer camp last year. Through the teacher's guidance, I learned about the customs of Hong Kong in a pure English environment and was very interested. Now I like English classes very much and my grades have improved.

Frank, 5 years old, lives in Xiaojinkou. My father does business in Hong Kong and my mother works in Huizhou. Because his parents are very busy at work, he has little time to accompany him. Frank is very withdrawn and shy. He is much more cheerful now after attending the summer camp. He will communicate with people at will, and when he gets home, he will take the initiative to tell his parents about his school in English.

According to President Chen of Time, there is an English summer camp for foreign teachers in our city, and the daily cost is about 100- 150 yuan. If you go abroad, the monthly cost is as high as 30 thousand yuan, which is beyond the affordability of ordinary working families. A student's parents said that the cost is a bit expensive, but the purpose of the picture is to gain something. Parents think that spending some money now will improve their children's oral English, which will be good for him all his life. The money is still worth spending.

According to reports, this year's summer camp of Time Language Training School is divided into three parts. Children from the kindergarten department went to Huizhou Air Force Base for bilingual training, and used pictures with English to express the training content. Some pupils go to Yangshuo because the "foreigner street" in Yangshuo has an atmosphere of learning English. When they come back, ask them to write a travel note in English and attach their own photos. Middle school students will go to Xi 'an, a famous historical and cultural city, but it is by no means a simple tour. Xi 'an's history and culture need a lot of words to understand. In order to give full play to students' imagination, foreign teachers ask students not only to communicate in English, but also to write about this summer camp in the form of short stories.

EF Education allows students to receive at least 8 hours of pure English training every day by creating a real English environment and introducing advanced communication skills. Active DM face-to-face "immersion" teaching method, so that children can bid farewell to "dumb English" as soon as possible. EF's overseas summer camp has also established an extensive host family network. For students who lack experience in studying abroad, living with host families will soon master a large number of commonly used vocabulary.

Dahua Foreign Language Training Center Tsinghua University Zhuhai Science Park Summer Camp is very distinctive. The camp will bring together mainland students and foreign students from Hong Kong and Macao to eat, live and study together, providing students with an international language exchange platform. Innovative English training center summer camp, playing simulation cards, designing 12 different activity rooms into 12 different countries. Students entering different activity rooms are just like going to different countries, showing different customs and customs through activity rooms and activities, but all students are required to talk in English.

Malicious price reduction, stealing the column, the goods are not right, and the summer camp needs to be standardized and managed.

It is understood that at present, the whole market system of summer camp in our city is still in the primary stage, and there is no special supervision and management institution to regulate the operation of summer camp market, so there is a situation of mixed quality and disorderly competition. Some educational institutions depress prices and slander each other, leading to vicious competition. For example, the charge for a two-week summer camp is generally 2000-3000 yuan, while some training institutions extend it to more than 20 days at the same price. Someone stole the bar at the summer camp, and the goods were wrong. Some off-campus educational institutions cheat money under the banner of summer camp, which harms the interests of consumers. Some have no school conditions at all, and the teachers are not qualified. Then, when going through the relevant formalities, do the education, industrial and commercial administration and other departments have relevant management regulations in this regard?

The reporter interviewed relevant persons in the education and industrial and commercial administration departments. A person in charge of the education department said: At present, there is no strict management mechanism for the opening of summer camps. They have asked the provincial education authorities and received instructions as follows: first, pay attention to safety; Second, let students learn something instead of making it an extension of the classroom. It is understood that there are currently more than 20 off-campus education and training institutions registered in the education department of our city. The administrative department for industry and commerce also said that as long as the training institution has the qualification certificate, it is only responsible for handling the business license, and it is entirely up to the training institution to decide to run the summer camp.

The heads of some training institutions told reporters: I hope that the relevant government departments can be a bridge and set up an institution with the nature of an industry association, which not only regulates the management of summer camp activities organized by our city, but also provides guidance and services for them; I hope that colleagues in Huizhou will be responsible for the development of the industry and for students and parents. A simple price war is harmful to the long-term development of the industry and is not good for everyone. It is hoped that when students and parents choose institutions to run summer camps, they should not only consider the price, but also choose institutions with good quality, good reputation and standardized operation.

Expect healthy development

The long summer vacation is here. Where are the children going? Do you watch TV at home, play computer games, or attend various interest classes? What kind of influence does the summer camp tide bring to parents and children? On the one hand, a healthy summer camp can stimulate children's potential, exercise their self-care ability, cultivate the spirit of cooperation, enrich children's lives, understand the outside world, and let them learn English well in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. On the other hand, some expensive summer camps can be attended by some children with good family economic conditions. Will it affect the psychology of children who can't attend? Will it induce children's comparison psychology? In addition, the summer camp activities in our city are still in the stage of marketization. While meeting the needs of parents and children, summer camp has led to a disorderly competition because there is no relevant supervision and management institution to standardize management. It is a very urgent problem to standardize and manage summer camp activities in our city, but we should not stop eating because there are some problems in running summer camp activities. We hope that the relevant departments will assume the responsibility and obligation of supervision and management, so that this activity will develop in a healthy and beneficial direction.

Opinions from all sides

Miss Huang, a cadre of an organ, said: Summer camp is a trinity learning opportunity for classroom, society and family, and it is the best choice for students.

Mr. Yang, the parents of the students, said: Many children are only children now, and they are the center of family care. They are self-conscious, always self-centered, but their teamwork ability is relatively weak. Participating in summer camp can cultivate their team spirit.

Ms. Zeng, the parents of the students, said: My child is only 5 years old. After attending the summer camp of the English training center, he can not only talk to the teacher in simple English, but also know a lot of English nursery rhymes.

Ms. Yuan, the parents of the students, said: My child is studying in an English training center. She likes English very much, and I also want to cultivate her independent ability, so I think it is appropriate to send her to summer camp. Unfortunately, the summer camp is too expensive, and the local two-week summer camp costs 2888 yuan.

Zhang Li, a middle school student, said: I think the summer camp with the theme of strengthening language is the sublimation of English training. If I go abroad for summer camp, I want to stay with a host family in an English-speaking country, so that I can feel the tone of spoken English well and make my spoken English more pure. Besides, I will introduce the customs and habits of our country to them.

A cadre of an organ said to the lady: The summer vacation was originally intended to give students a rest and buffer time after a semester of intense study. If you take up the training that makes no difference in peacetime, the summer vacation will lose its original meaning.

Mr. Wang, a middle school teacher: An open world needs open talents, and open talents must be cultivated with open educational concepts and means. Today, when people-oriented is advocated, it is urgent to improve some outdated educational concepts and means, and summer camp is a useful attempt.