Summer School –  June 29  - July 5, 2017- Students were divided into two (or more – up to the teachers to decide) equal groups. The  groups are assigned to develop a group identity through giving a name to their group, inventing the dance, creating their motto, logo and other attributes. They had Team building activity. 

Ss made  a group picture-the picture is divided into parts, made big copies of each parts and put together. They had lots of different kind of activities during these 5 days: Group activity ‘ Silent cards shuffle’ to encourage cooperation between groups, Activity 'Picture Story', teacher shows pictures and the students write the suitable sentences individually then they check their writing with pairs according to the rubric. Finally they read their variant.  The projects ‘ The role of social media’ and ‘ The States of America’ Two main groups were divided into subgroups and given some American states to find information about and made a poster.  

The activities ‘ Circle Writing’,  ‘ Information transfer’ and Group  activity 'Contradict me' ( cards with questions and answers, one of the members of the group asks and the student who answers quickly gets the card, the winner of the group is the person who receives the most cards). The third day was about democracy. It was Introduction of the topic: Ss wrote “Democracy is ...”, then watched Video about ideas of democracy and read Quotes about democracy. Teachers made Presentation of the government of the USA and activity “Numbered heads together”. We had guest speakers From the US Embassy Dwight Nystrom- Head of Political and Economic Section, Kevin Hirschi- English Language Fellow, Lika Gumberidze- English Language program coordinator.  

After that we had the Introduction of the famous children’s activist Malala. Ss fill the KWL chart and watched the Video about this activist. They had Running dictation about Malala. And the song about democracy.

 Fourth day it was Excursion to ‘ Borjomi’. Students take pictures, make notes in order to write articles later for the newspaper. They had Olympic- Toilet Paper Bridal Dress Game: dressing their “bride” in their best toilet paper gown design. Other Outdoor activities , board games and the activity ‘ Treasure Hunt’. Students wrote articles for the newspaper about ‘ Borjomi’ and about their impressions. 

And they made a final version of their newspaper. Groups made presentations of their newspapers. Ss played the game ‘Mystery box’ and They had Talent Show. It took place and Singing competition between two  groups. At the end of each day we had free writing and Wrap-up of the day. Summer school finished with the Celebration dinner.