English Language Course

2013 Programme

Dates

9 Days

Duration

14 to 18

Groupsize

ENGLISH THROUGH WALKS AND TALKS

Improve your English through lessons, conversation, Celtic and archaeological walks, films, lectures and discussions with people from the Island. Level of English: +/- intermediate

English instructor: Ursula Murray

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Additional information

Location	Ireland
Destination	Inis Mór, Co. Galway

Day 1:

Welcome at meeting point in Galway, 16.00, boat trip to Inishmore, transfer to accommodation, dinner.

Day 2 :

Morning: Information about the Island, programme etc, afternoon: walking the low road (seals, early monastic sites, holy wells and standing stones with Ursula (walk 2 hrs), evening: free time

Day 3:

Morning: lesson: grammar and conversation (2 1/2 hrs), afternoon: free time, evening: meeting in Maggie’s Sweater Shop: the old times and the history of the Aran Jumpers.

Day 4:

Morning: lesson, afternoon: “Walking the Celtic Way” (rituals and holy places) with Dara Ó Maoildhia, Poll na bPéist (wormhole) and the prehistoric fort of Dún Aonghasa (2-3 hrs), evening: visit my neighbour, the fisherman and basketmaker Vincent McCearán.

Day 5:

Morning: lesson, afternoon free time, evening: traditional singing on the Island, in the present and past , with the renowned Sean Nós singer Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, learn a song in English or Irish.

Day 6:

Morning lesson, afternoon: “The Man of Aran”: the film and the making of the film, evening: free time.

Day 7:

Morning lesson, afternoon: walk to Dún Dubh Chathair and the soft sand dunes and wide beaches of Kileany, time for shopping, evening: music session in the local Pub.

Day 8:

12.00 boat to Galway, transfer to B+B, Galway tour with Kim and shopping time, evening: experience a traditional music session in one of Galway’s old Pubs.

Day 9:

Official end of programme.

The walks are on a easy to medium level.

English Language Course