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 Learn English in Durban
in South Africa
Welcome in my homeland...
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Tuition of 20 or 30 group lessons of general English per week,
business English, CAMBRIDGE exams preparation, private courses, internship-Co-Op programme |
 Member
of SATSA,
Southern Africa
Tourism Services Association.
The
centre is located in the heart of trendy Musgrave with a range of
designer boutiques, cafes, department stores, restaurants, bars and
clubs. Centrally located, the vicinity attracts large numbers to Durban.
It is only a minute away from the popular Musgrave Centre, a 5 minute
drive from the city centre and to the impressive modern shopping, marina
and cinema complex in Umhlanga, Gateway.
The school has 7 classrooms and
a library that is equipped with a TV and VCR. Students have access to
free internet and the tour reservations desk helps them plan their free
time.
Tuition program
- 1 lesson: 55 minutes
- Minimum age: 16
- Schedule 8:30 AM to 3:20 PM, depending the
chosen program.
- Maximum of 10 students per class.
- Transfer from Airport to your accommodation include at arrival
and departure, Saturdays or
Sundays.
- Business English: 30 lessons per week.
Minimum level required, upper intermediate. 20 general English lessons and 10 lessons buIfness
English.
- CAMBRIDGE: FCE, AE, CPE. 30 lessons par week,
8 or 12 weeks. Please foreseen 9 or 13 weeks
of accommodation accordingly.
- Internship, Co-Op programme. You will 2
choices.Either a Work Placement (pre-placed, unpaid from 4 to 16 weeks
maximum, for people aged 18 to 30), or Work Adventure (non-placed, paid,
from 1 to 12 months, for people aged 18 to 25). A CV in English is
compulsory with picture. All students on any work placement programme
are required to take at least 4 weeks of either Intensive English or
Business English course.
- All levels available.
- Language laboratory.
- School material
- Evaluation and attestation of language
training.
ATTENTION : For the Canadian nationals, a
visa is compulsory to viIft the Republic of South Africa. For other
nationals please get in touch with the embassy or the consulate of the
Republic of South Africa in your country.
Durban Beach
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Starting dates
Every Monday of the
year.
Cambridge exam:
starting dates:
8 weeks: 7/01*, 14/04, 13/10
12 weeks: 17/03, 15/09
Exam the 9th or 13th week accordingly.
* CPE is not running at
this date.
School closing dates
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21,24 |
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Available options
- Hotel accommodation: upon request
- Airport transfer outside foreseen days (Monday
till Friday): 20€
- All our rates are valid
from January 1st till December 31st,
2008
and never include the plane
ticket.
Durban
School front
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Family or residence accommodation.
- Sunday arrival and departure.
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Family, single * occupancy bedroom, 2 meals per day. Maximum 30
minutes in public transportation from the school.
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In residence, including breakfast, room in
single * or double occupancy (for 2 traveling together). Walking distance to the school. Shared
or private bathroom. Kitchen
fitted out , Lounge with TV, BBQ in the garden, bar.
FAMILY, PER WEEK, PER PERSON:
204€, single occupancy additional day: 28€
Placement
fees for residence only (once): 25 Euros
RESIDENCE, PER WEEK, PER PERSON:
77€, double occupancy, shared bathroom additional day: 11€
126€,
single * occupancy, shared bathroom
additional day: 18€
105€, double occupancy, private bathroom additional day: 15€
175€,
single * occupancy, private bathroom additional
day: 25€
* For all
single occupancy (family or residence), high season supplement between
January 1st and February 29th and between July 1st and August 12th.
Per week add 14 Euros...per additional day, add 2 Euros.
Our greeting families are recruited with great care. The criteria of
selection are very rigorous and each family must satisfy a precise
conditions of contract: : excellent morality, deIfre to communicate with
their host, satisfactory social standing. We
should specify that the families will only speak with you the language of
the country where you will be. It is the principle of the immersion
courses!
Beachfront....for a drink
Jazz downtown
Residence
Traditions.....
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City information.
Durban.....surf paradise
www.durban.co.za/home/default.asp
Port &
waterfront:
Most holiday makers make their way to the Durban waterfront,
be it the urge to surf Durban’s world famous North Beach,
that plays host to the annual Gunston 500 now known as the
Mr. Price Pro surfing championships, or to join the usual
fishing community off one of the various piers that jutt out
into the Indian Ocean Take a walk along the bathing beaches
which stretch for some 4 km from Addington in the south to
the Country Club Blue Lagoon in the North, the visitor to
Durban is spoilt for choice when it comes to a memorable and
remarkable holiday experience.
Overlooking the Durban Harbour and the Natal Royal Yacht
club and set just off the Victoria Embankment, Wilson’s
Wharf offers the sightseer a cross section of diverse
choices; from a browsers market consisting of numerous
stalls selling anything from arts and crafts to souvenirs of
Durban and KwaZulu-Natal to fully licensed upmarket
restaurants boasting exotic seafood menus. Wilson’s Wharf
should be on every visitor to Durban’s must see list.
Shopping:
Durban has everything from shopping centres and chain stores
to factory shops and supermarkets as well as hundreds of
small businesses ranging from jewelry stores to coffee shops.
Victoria Street Market:
This busy traditional trading market has over 100 stalls
offering a variety of wares, spices and incense. The market
was built during the late 1980's. It contains a wide variety
of small shops selling clothes, curios, bags, spices and
trinkets from Africa and the East and can be found on the
corner of Queen Street and Victoria Street.
Durban Designer's Emporium:
Located at Musgrave Road, where you'll find a great
selection of top local labels -- Durban is considered to be
the spawning ground for South Africa's most creative
clothing designers (a claim that's hotly contested by
Capetonians, of course).
The Pavilion at Westville:
If you are looking for the widest variety of shopping and
entertainment in KwaZulu-Natal, The Pavilion is your unique
pleasure experience.
Only minutes away from Durban, The Pavilion is perfectly
situated adjacent to the N3 near Westville, and is served by
a convenient bus service every Wednesday and Saturday from
the Durban beachfront. Six thousand covered and open parking
bays give visitors direct access to the Centre and shoppers
are protected by state of the art security.
The Pavilion originally started off with 3 levels and in
March 2001 the new Cinema Level, called Via Pareto was built,
consisting of the entertainment area, cinemas, various
restaurant outlets and leading fashion stores. In August
2002 the refurbishment of the original levels was complete,
giving the centre an entirely new sandstone look.
Culture:
The BAT Centre:
The BAT Centre is an arts and culture community centre found
in the small craft harbour, off Durban's Victoria Embankment.
Their Mission is to celebrate the arts and culture of
Durban, KwaZulu Natal and South Africa by promoting local
talent and skills. Since its inception in 1995 the BAT has
grown in experience from observing the quality of the arts
and performances displayed on a regular daily basis, and as
a result the BAT Centre is now a wiser entity.
The BAT Centre has a long history of hosting successful
music events throughout its decade of existence. The center
aims to include many different genres in its music line ups,
including roots orientated music such as maskandi, Afro-jazz,
folk, drumming and Hip Hop, as well as other genres such as
rock and reggae.
The African Art Centre:
Conveniently located on the first floor of the Tourist
Junction, is one of the best places in the country to
examine the woodcarvings, ceramics, beadwork, baskets,
tapestries, rugs, fine art, and fabrics created by
predominantly Zulu craftsmen and artists.
Ghandi's Legacy:
On June 7, 1893, a young lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi,
recently arrived in Durban, found himself stranded at the
Pietermaritzburg Station after being ejected from a
whites-only first-class carriage.
He spent the night mulling the incident over in the waiting
room, and, according to the great man himself, "his active
non-violence started from that day." Mohandas (later to
become Mahatma) was to spend the next 21 years peacefully
fighting the South African laws that discriminated against
Indians before leaving to liberate India from English rule.
You can visit the platform where Gandhi was unceremoniously
tossed (at the seedy end of Church St.), the Gandhi statue (near
the City Hall end of Church St.), or the Natal Museum, which
has a few exhibits relating to the man.
In a moving ceremony at Pietermaritzburg Railway Station on
25 April 1997, the President of a new South Africa, Nelson
Mandela, posthumously conferred the Freedom of
Pietermaritzburg on Mahatma Gandhi. India's High
Commissioner to South Africa, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, received
the Freedom of Pietermaritzburg on behalf of his grandfather.
Museums & Galleries:
The African Art Centre
The art gallery promotes and sells original traditional
works of art, rugs, sculpture, beadwork, tapestries,
ceramics and carvings from Xhosa and Zulu.
Bergtheil Museum
Artefacts and documents relating to the area's German
settlers in 1848 are exhibited here in a quaint 19th Century
farmhouse, along with a collection of photographs.
Campbell Collection Museum
The William Campbell picture collection contains one of
South Africa's finest collections of work by black South
African artists such as Jabulani Ntuli, Gerard Benghu and
Dsmt Mnguni. The collection also includes 250 paintings by
Barbara Tyrell, depicting Zulu social life and customs. The
museum is still furnished much as it was when the Campbell
family was still there. Viewing by appointment only.
Durban Natural Science Museum
Outstanding exhibits featuring dinosaurs, natural sciences,
and Egyptian mummy reconstructions and includes the
KwaZuzulwazi Science Centre.
Local History Museum
Relics can be seen from colonial times, scale model replicas
of former Zulu King Dingane's home, reproductions of early
trading stores and a collection of period costumes, whereas
the KwaMuhle Museum illustrates the history of Durban from
the Africans' view-point.
Old House Museum
A precise reconstruction of early life as a settler in what
was once the home of the city's former mayor.
Other suggested sites:
The Golden Mile
Suncoast Casino Complex
Kings Park Stadium or (ABSA Stadium)
Sahara Stadium Kingsmead
Outside of the city centre is the Valley of a Thousand Hills
a dramatic geographical rock formation created by the Mngeni
River and its tributaries.
MiniTown
Farewell Square
Sea World
Fun World
Durban Botanic Gardens
Fitz Simons Snake Park
Durban Hores Race Course
Umhlanga Rocks
Food & Drink:
Dining out in Durban is a taste bud tickling experience.
Restaurants range from steak houses to traditional chinese,
not to mention a variety of exceptional take-aways!
A combination of creative cooking, gracious venues, and
balmy weather makes the Durban restaurant scene the
country's most exciting, after Cape Town. Windermere and
Florida Roads, both in Morningside, a suburb on the western
outskirts of town, are where you'll find the largest
concentration of restaurants.
Durban is the next-best place to India for sampling Indian
food. The city's Indian District is a great starting point
for a cheap lunch, but a meal at one of the many Indian
restaurants in the city is a must. If you have time, make a
booking at both Gulzar and Jaipur Palace, Durban's two top
Indian restaurants.
If you fancy being close to the water, try the new Wilson's
Wharf development, located at the southern end of Durban's
bay, where you can choose between six restaurants, all with
decks overlooking the harbour.
Tourist Tips:
South Africa is one of the most diverse and enchanting
countries in the world. Exotic combinations of landscapes,
people, history and culture offer the traveller a unique and
inspiring experience.
South Africa is located on the southern tip of the African
continent, bordered by northern neighbours Namibia,
Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It encompasses the
independent mountain kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland and
is flanked by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the warm
Indian Ocean on the east - giving the country its
spectacular range of biodiversity.
South Africa is divided into nine provinces, namely Eastern
Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo,
Mpumulanga, Northern Cape, North West and the Western Cape.
Major cities include the modern economic hub of
Johannesburg, coastal Cape Town picturesquely perched
between mountain and sea, historic Pretoria and the 'sun and
surf central' city of Durban.
South Africa's favourite playground and the busiest port in
Africa, Durban began life as a remote trading outpost. Today
the sunny city is a popular year-round holiday destination,
prized for its balmy climate and superb surfing and swimming
beaches. Although shopping, restaurants and nightlife are
geared for the holidaymaker, Durban is also now positioning
itself as the conference capital of South Africa - with its
International Conference Centre ranking amongst the top
facilities in the world.
The Zulus called the almost land-locked lagoon "Thekwini" (lagoon)
and used to set out elaborate fish traps in the shallows. On
December 25, 1497, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
anchored at present day Durban and named the natural harbour
"Rio De Natal" (Christmas River). It was also called "Parva
de Pescaria" (the fisheries) because of the fish traps.
Still, this subtropical city is synonymous with the ocean.
UShaka, the southern hemisphere's greatest marine theme park,
was recently opened and is a major attraction for tourists
to the city. But if you'd like to get really personal with
marine life, The Natal Sharks Board runs weekday boat tours
for visitors to watch shark nets being cleared, as well as
dolphin- and whale-watching trips on weekends. The annual
winter sardine run is another marine spectacle, attracting
visitors from across the globe.
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