Deutsch Jugendcamp Karlsruhe

German lessons run on course days in two to three blocks and practise listening, speaking, reading and writing together. Teaching is communicative and close to everyday life, with role plays, interviews and small projects, and it is held in German from the first day. Course books are used at every level and teachers add material put together for the group; course material is covered by the price. The camp covers seventy-two lessons of forty-five minutes over twenty course days in three weeks, Monday to Friday 09:00-12:30 and two to three afternoons a week 14:00-15:30, which is twenty-four lessons a week. Levels offered are A1 (not for absolute beginners), A2, B1 and B2, and a class holds between ten and sixteen participants. Everyone receives a certificate of attendance naming the level, the number of lessons and the length of the course.

The price covers German lessons with course material, the sport, culture and leisure programme, accommodation at the Sportschule Schoeneck, full board, laundry during the course, the transfer between Frankfurt/Main airport and the camp on the official arrival and departure days, health, accident and liability insurance from the moment the participant leaves the home country, supervision around the clock and the two day trips that come with a three-week course. Personal spending and excursions outside the programme are not included.

Participants live for the three weeks at the Sportschule Schoeneck on the Turmberg, in two-, three- or four-bed rooms with their own bathroom. Teaching rooms, residence, sports facilities and green areas lie together on one campus. Girls and boys are accommodated separately, on different floors or in different houses, and room-mates of the same age come from different countries. Towels and bed linen are provided and changed regularly, laundry can be handed in during the course, and the team is present in the residence around the clock.

Full board with three meals a day plus drinks and small snacks. Breakfast is a buffet with bread and rolls, sweet and savoury toppings, cheese, muesli, yoghurt and fruit, with milk, cocoa, tea and juice. Lunch and dinner change daily and a vegetarian option is offered at every meal; dishes without pork are available as an alternative.

After lessons the sport and leisure programme takes over, and participants choose what they join: the football pitch, the sports hall, the swimming pool or creative workshops. What was learned in class is used straight away in the programme. Two day trips come with the three-week course, and one weekend excursion goes to the nearby university city of Heidelberg. Close by there are the Waldseilpark high ropes course in the treetops, an open-air pool for hot days and the medieval old town of Durlach with its narrow lanes, castle square and market square.

The camp uses the campus of the Sportschule Schoeneck above Karlsruhe: teaching rooms, residence, indoor sports hall, outdoor pitches and a swimming pool on the same grounds, with a view over the city and a quiet setting around it. The city itself is five hundred and twenty-eight steps down from the Turmberg. South of Karlsruhe the Black Forest begins.

Karlsruhe is a city full of energy and possibilities - open, colourful and good for trying something new, with a baroque palace, historic buildings and a street plan laid out like a fan. The camp is the natural choice for anyone who likes sport: German in the morning, a pitch or a hall in the afternoon, and friendships made with young people from all over the world that easily stretch across the globe.