Hi this is the first time to post this one.
Recently, I'm worried sick beacuse I have to prepare the summer English camp in the middle school.
One of my teachers let me think about this matter.
Do you have any idea or any material for English camp?

Have a nice day. :)

Will you be working with a native teacher?  If so then won't they be responsible for the entire camp so you don't have to worry?

If not then take a look at the hundreds of available camp plans on this site 

I've found that working through a textbook is the easiest and most stress free way of doing a camp (but I add lots of my own activities and material to make the book more fun!)

Guys - Most schools don't even have NETs these days. The majority of camps are done by KETS.

This is a list of camp topics: http://www.waygook.org/index.php/topic,14572.0.html

and this is winter/summer camp section for you to look through http://www.waygook.org/index.php/board,31.0.html


Good luck!

Like the Arm said, the easiest thing to do is use a textbook and jazz it up. But I say take a chance and have some fun with it. The kids learn from textbooks at school and at hagwons so this is your chance and theirs to put their English to a practical use.

Plus, they'll love you for it and you'll be the coolest teacher ever.

If it's your first camp, an easy one to do is a newspaper camp. Depending on your class size, you can set it up as a competition to see who produces the most interesting and professionally printed newspaper (to add interest and make SURE that the kids actually work on producing something acceptable, you can get it printed professionally outside the school on newsprint sized the same as an actual paper).

And of course, as it's a competition, there'll have to be prizes of some kind. The winning group could get pizza on the last day and the other groups could get crisp chips.

The trick is to forbid the use of the internet and all translating devices otherwise they'll just go to a Korean news site and copy and translate an article from there and then spend the next week playing Candycrush. Instead, make them write the news themselves. If the kids' newspapers are going to be/have a celebrity news/article/page, one of them will have to dress up as a celebrity and pose as that celebrity for a photograph for the paper. In turn, the photographer will have their name credited under the photo. If they write an article about something to do with the environment e.g. whaling, one person will be the whale, another person will be the whaler (the person, not the ship).

Give them random products they have to photograph, tag and advertise. Something everyday they find around school, like a shoebag or a pocket warmer. Or, since it'll be summer, a kiddie swimming pool for the classroom, or a doorhandle.

Have them review movies they'd like to see. They could write articles about neighbours banging on apartment walls or people stealing parking spaces. They could even have an unbelievable section where the news could be conspiracy-based: a local lady saw a dokebi running down the road, a little boy saw a ghost hanging out a window.

An advice column: get each person to write a question they need advice about on a piece of paper and put it in a hat, and then whoever is writing the advice column has to pull out however many questions there are people in the group and then write and advise that person regardless of the question (you might want to read over the questions first just to check they're all kosher).

You can hold discussions and debates around the use of names, blacking out of eyes/faces in papers: should they or shouldn't they?

The best way to run it (IMO) is to give them a strict and detailed brief outlining jobs and what you expect the newspaper to look like.Go in with high expectations of them and push them to meet those expectations and they'll give you amazing stuff.

Movie classes? I've never done full movie classes because my classes have always had speaking as their focus. I've used shorts/trailers and animations but very sparingly and it depended on what I was trying to teach.

I get the students to submit most of the writing they do (especially the bigger pieces) so they can get feedback on what they've done. Otherwise they don't put in the effort they could/should because there isn't a reason to.

I'd never do a movie camp.

My camps tend to be on the longer side, so I always make one day a movie day.

I always provide students with worksheets to fill out during the movie, though. Completed worksheets with all right answers get prizes.

Then, depending on the levels I'm working with, we'll discuss the movie in more detail.

Advanced classes get to debate questions like "Was the movie any good?" or "Did so-and-so really need to do that, couldn't so-and-so have done this instead?" In this case, teams would always be assigned opposing viewpoints that they would have to support, regardless of how they actually feel.

For less advanced classes, there would be a very simple discussion about the movie, and then the students would have to list two or three reasons why they liked or disliked the film. Afterwards, we'd play a trivia game about the movie. Advanced classes might get a trivia game, too, depends on how much time we got.

I also tend to tie the movie in with the theme of the camp as a whole, and I'll try to pick one that would pique more than one interest.

Like if I showed the movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (I would NEVER show this movie to my students, btw, this is just an example), I would have them discuss the dessert pastry that keeps getting shown throughout the film. We'd talk about what they think it would taste like and whether or not they'd actually like it.

If I had the budget, we'd also make it. I normally can because my camp class sizes are small and the school normally has a budget large enough for me to have a decent food day where we can spend a lot of time going over a more complicated recipe. Then we'd discuss if the dish met their expectations, and, if not, what was different.

If there's little to no budget, we'd just do some simple and cheap treats that tie in with the theme/movie (no budget normally means I pay out of my own pocket, lol, but with small class sizes this isn't a lot of money, so I do it). Having to go this route is a little disappointing, though, since the kids are so much more interested when they get to replicate the exact dish, and they have so much more to say about it.

I haven't tried it, yet, but if a camp were long enough with a small enough set of students, I might have them make sock puppets or something and then put on a skit that kind of summarizes the film or tells an alternative version of it. With the right personalities, this could be a lot of fun.

So anyway, yeah, I like movies and think they offer up a lot of interesting discussion points and activities for the kids. I wouldn't show one if the camp period is too short, though, and would never show a movie during camp just to show it. There would always be activities tied in with it.

Hi this is the first time to post this one.
Recently, I'm worried sick beacuse I have to prepare the summer English camp in the middle school.
One of my teachers let me think about this matter.
Do you have any idea or any material for English camp?

Have a nice day. :)

You're worried sick this far in advance?  Think of some topics you want to teach on.  Find some power points, handouts, and maybe some type of game.  Not sure if you're doing 3 or 4 classes each day for it.  Do cooking and make some sandwiches the last day.  That'll kill 2 periods on Fridays.  This site has lots of things to download.  Think of some topics and search them here. 

1. Flip cup- works well
2. Scavenger Hunt - takes time to put stuff everywhere, but the kids really love running around
3. Eng-Pong - Came up with using  this last week (and have been trying it for the past few days - big hit
                 --> For low level students you  can do as a previous poster (with a ppt) created, and have numbers in the cups. The number correspond to a vocabulary list, and the students that make the cup must correct give the translation of the vocabulary word in order to take the cup out.
               --> For High levels, I have been using challenge cards in place of vocabulary.
                                           High five - the card has a category and 10 correlataing words
                                                            written on it, the team must say 5 of the words
                                           Spelling Bee - team chooses 1 of 3 words for the other to spell
                                           Yes/No - the card has a word, and the team can only ask yes/no
                                                         questions to get the answer
                                           Bomb - the team must say 10 words beginning or ending with a
                                                       letter or set of letters. Ex: begins with "ch"
       ---All challenges are a 1 minute time limit
4. I usually do a movie on the last day
5. Egg Drop Challenge

Overall, if you find interesting board games, see if they can be adapted to play somehow with a larger class. The Eng-Pong is a mix between a board game (which I had cards for, but not enough actual games) and beer pong.

kiky4u - you don't need to worry about the English camp at all.

thankfully there are many fantastic native english teachers in korea who have made amazing, ready to go camps which are all in one section on this website, like someone else said.

never again will lazy, incompetent korean teachers with 4 year education degrees who despite that are completely incapable of doing their job properly have to worry about planning anything english related, and you have the 'useless' NETs to thank for it 

I've only shown a full length movie once as a treat at the end of a camp.  (I had showed some clips from "Tron: Legacy" for a lesson and the kids got so into it that my coT asked if we could show it for camp)

However,  I have done a movie making camp (middle school) and I have shown shorts/trailers. 

Unless you've got a lot of worksheets/activities based on a movie and interspersed throughout, then watching movies is a passive activity that the students could just do on their own time.

We had film viewing activities before and they were required to submit their analyses before the class ends. But I agree that some of them would just spend the time doing nothing. I think short trailers are better option since it will not consume too much time.
Are you the one making the worksheets for them?