The Riversdown Story

Riversdown House offers all-inclusive packages with private on-site accommodation.
Founded in 1971, Riversdown House has trained over 35,000 clients from around the world.
Experienced instructors design and deliver intensive, multi-objective programmes in an international environment.

Living the Language

Richard D. Lewis’ bold and simple idea was to put busy professional people in a place where they could live, breathe and dream in English around the clock. They would be taught one-to-one or in small groups by trainers who understood what they needed to do with the language.

You will get the most out of Riversdown House if you come for a minimum of 2 weeks. You arrive on a Sunday and depart on a Saturday.

Your learning is based on individual, face-to-face sessions, with trainers chosen to suit your level and aims. You may select the precise intensity of your training, depending on your exact needs and requirements.

You may also do some work in small groups where we think that will help your learning.

Your programme will be supported by technology where appropriate, either with close guidance from a trainer, or outside the nine to five formal training time.

The minimum age for participants is 18.

Some examples of what your programme may include:

• A review of your language structure and typical errors
• Improvement of your fluency and confidence
• Focus on grammar to support your key needs, such as describing processes or speculating about the future
• Improvement of your ability to interact with audiences
• Techniques for improving your presentation skills
• How to get your own way yet stay polite
• Social language to create the right climate for business
• Meeting and negotiation skills
• Vocabulary extension in your professional field
• Pronunciation and intonation practice with difficult words and phrases you cannot avoid
• Building trust with different cultures for better results
• Practice in adapting your message so other cultures will act on it
• Writing emails that have the effect you want
• Results-orientated remote communication in speech and writing

Accommodation and Dining

You have a private bedroom in one of the two houses on the Riversdown House estate.

The main house is a protected building dating back to the 14th century. The foundations of the original mediaeval Hall were laid in 1328. The novelist Jane Austen is said to have spent weekends here.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served every day, and we cater for all dietary requirements. Our chefs provide international cuisine, incorporating ingredients from our award-winning butcher in West Meon, fresh Hampshire trout, watercress from nearby Warnford, and other local produce.

Leisure facilities

Riversdown House has extensive on-site leisure facilities:

• a 9-hole PGA approved golf course
• three tennis courts
• a gym
• a sauna
• bicycles

Address and more information

Riversdown House Warnford Hampshire S032 3LH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1962 77 1 1

www.riversdown.com

Where is Riversdown House?

It is in Hampshire, 60 miles south-west of London.
The nearest airport is Southampton (35 minutes drive),
followed by Bournemouth (50 minutes), Heathrow (one hour) and Gatwick (one hour 20 minutes).

How to get started

Please ask AIS Sprog for more information. We will help you decide about your stay, make an initial needs assessment with you and offer you to take the Oxford Online Placement Test.