Teachers in Broadstairs

We arrived at Stansted Airport, London on 9th October. The same day we visited Cambridge (in this city we can find one of the most famous universities in the world), where we took a boat trip on the River Cam and enjoyed the beauty of the medieval city. On the river Mr. Módos tried to push the boat forward with the help of a long pole, and he was doing this very confidently. Like a real Venetian boatman. We arrived in Broadstairs in the evening, where our host families were waiting for us, and we started to test our language knowledge.

Monday was our first day at Kent School of English. (School starts at nine o’clock – oops!)  Here we wrote a placement test, so on Tuesday we continued our studies in new groups where we had the chance of meeting colleagues from Italy and France. Our excellent teachers were not only well-prepared, but friendly and helpful from the first day. They gave us interesting, useful and challenging exercises. They praised us every time, and it was a very pleasant feeling. (It is a big edification for the teachers!)

In the afternoons we explored Broadstairs and the surrounding areas. We had long walks on the coast, visited the very exotic Powell Cotton Museum (he was a world traveller British aristocrat), the world famous cathedral of Canterbury (where Thomas Beckett was murdered – it is an important historic lesson!) and a local secondary school, which was really amazing very well-equipped and has six football pitches for example. WE had the opportunity to observe lessons and compare methods and the curricula. Our focus was on the Economics lessons and it was very interesting to discuss the different aspects of teaching entrepreneurship and marketing.

In the evenings we relaxed a bit in some characteristic British pubs (of course just the adults!), played bowling, sang in a church, or went to watch a movie, and naturally we built relationships with our hosts and other teachers from around Europe. (For dinner our host families served us some typical and delicious British dishes, like shepherd’s pie.) During the evening activities we listened to the enthusiastic accounts of our student. They were very skilful and we were proud of them.

All in all, thanks to Mr. Gere and Mr. Módos, the two group-leaders and organisers of the whole project we had a wonderful and thought-provoking time in beautiful Broadstairs.