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Current & Upcoming Courses
Current
Groups at levels 8 and 15.
Pair course at level 9
One-to-one at levels 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 18 and 20.
Upcoming
Group at level 1
Básico
5 classes per week
Classroom time: 60 hours
If you are starting from scratch, levels 1 and 2 provide your basic Spanish language survival kit, with words and phrases you can start using right away. You’ll learn the essential sounds of Spanish, and tips on the process of learning a language.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Exchange basic personal information
Talk about your family
Conduct a complete basic dialogue in a café or a shop
Ask where specific places are in town
Talk about the weather
Describe your house and where you live
Grammar covered:
Construction of simple sentences
Conjugation of fundamental verbs
Use of basic question words
Agreement of nouns and adjectives by gender and number
Articles, demonstratives and possessive adjectives
Inicial
3 classes per week
Classroom time: 60 hours
At levels 3 and 4, you’ll begin to experiment with language patterns, using your own initiative to express yourself and apply what you learn to everyday situations. You should start feeling more confident and independent in using the language.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Talk about your daily routine, free time and weekend or holiday activities
Understand and give directions
Order a meal at a restaurant and have a complete dialogue with the waiter
Ask and give information about cultural events
Ask about train, bus and flight timetables
Talk about frequency of activities
Express and grade your likes and dislikes
Grammar covered:
Imperative mode: requesting or ordering someone to do something
Wide range of common verbs, including: ir, venir, trabajar, hacer, levantar, acostar, cerrar, abrir; plus verbs endings and reflexive verbs
Present indicative mode in all persons
Personal pronouns
Grammatical structure of gustar
Contrast between present indicative and imperative mode in form and use
Adverbs of frequency (e. g. siempre, normalmente, a veces)
“I have found Spanish classes with Eduardo very helpful in gaining a grounding in everyday conversation. It has given me the confidence to make myself understood in the local shops, the post office and on the buses. Recommended !”
Kevin Boylan (Level 4)
Elemental
2 classes a week
Classroom time: 60 hours
At levels 5 and 6 you should be feeling independent enough to practice your language skills outside the classroom. You’ll want to start expressing yourself in the past and future tenses, and this course provides precisely the language tools you need.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Ask about and describe future plans
Make social arrangements
Use the phone with standard phrases and have a complete conversation
Describe how your day went
Ask people about their work and describe your work
Talk about how you’re feeling
Make a doctor’s appointment
Apologize and give reasons why
Shop for shoes and clothes – ask an assistant for help
Grammar covered :
Use of presente habitual and presente temporario.
Expression of completion of actions by use of the pretérito perfecto (e.g. ya he hecho las compras) and pretérito simple (e.g. fui al banco)
Expression of immediate plans using a combination of verbs with ir a, preferir, querer, etc. (e. g. voy a hacer algo)
Some uses of the verbs llevar and quedar
Use of countable and non-countable nouns and quantifiers (e. g. mucho, bastante, algunas, algo de, ningún)
Pre-Intermedio
2 classes per week
Classroom time: 60 hours
By the time you complete levels 7 and 8, you should be feeling so confident about your Spanish language, expression vocabulary and grammar that you can start to chat about everyday topics and issues.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Ask for favours, ask to borrow things, ask if something is allowed
Arrange a holiday at a travel agent
Talk about past experiences including your weekend, holidays, etc
Talk about memories from your childhood
Try to find an item you have lost
Discuss changes in society
Grammar covered:
Pretéritos perfecto, simple and imperfecto
Auxiliary verbs plus infinitives (acabar de, dejar de, empezar a and volver a)
Auxiliary verbs plus gerundios (seguir and llevar)
Imperativos with tú, usted, vosotros and ustedes and imperativos plus pronouns (e.g. dámelo, cógelas, apágala)
Some uses of the verbs dejar, sacar y pasar.
Verbos pronominales (reflexivos, recíprocos, de cambios de postura y pasiva refleja)
“I can speak more fluently in the shops and with people. I can read magazines now and everyday life is easier.”
Sylvia (Level 6)
Intermedio bajo
2 classes per week
Classroom time: 60 hours
At levels 9 and 10 you’ll feel increasingly confident about engaging in discussions, debates or disagreements, armed with an expanding range of topics and vocabulary. You’ll be using language more spontaneously and naturally.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Offer your opinions about current affairs
Read and listen to news and outline the stories to others
Talk about future projects, predictions, etc.
Role-play a car accident and deal with the paperwork involved
Talk about petty crime
Talk about the achievements and qualities of someone you admire
Grammar covered:
Pretérito pluscuamperfecto
Three other preterites
Passive voices
Future imperfect
Relative pronouns
Uses of verb poner
Transitive vs. reflexive verbs
Intermedio medio
2 classes per week
Classroom time: 60 hours
By the end of this level you’ll find yourself expressing ideas using both abstract and more specific language. You can now choose more subtle ways of expressing an idea by using more precise expressions and colloquial language. Classes become more student-centered, shaped by what you want to talk about.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Read an entire Spanish play, and discuss it in the group
Make a formal complaint, both verbally and in writing
Criticize someone’s behavior
Elect yourself mayor and announce your own policy proposals
Role-play opposing opinions about community events (e. g. a rock festival)
Recount a conversation you’ve had with someone else
Offer advice in a tactful way (e. g. Si yo fuera tú…)
Draw conclusions about a past event
Grammar covered:
Present, preterite perfect and imperfect subjunctives (used to express wishes, doubts, probability and indirect orders)
Expressions using deberas, podrías, tendrías que + haber + past participle (cantado, comido, visto, etc.)
Revision of all indicative tenses
Conditional tense and sentences
Reported speech
“Eduardo is an excellent teacher, and the workbooks complement the classes – this is the best Spanish language teaching I have ever had.”
Sheila (Level 8)
Intermedio alto
2 classes per week
Classroom time: 60 hours
By now you should be enjoying your growing ability to explore and analize ideas in less structured, even more student-led classes. Perfectionists can resolve doubts, gain clarity and deepen their knowledge. You should be confident enough to tackle whole novels in Spanish.
At this level, you’ll be able to:
Express yourself precisely with a broader grammar base
Read a whole novel for pleasure
Talk about most subjects switching between past, present and future with reasonable fluency
Use a wide range of idiomatic expressions (refranes y argot) and understand the common use of Spanish
Grammar covered:
Four forms of conditional sentences
All subjunctive tenses
Different uses of imperfect, perfect and future tenses
Polite requests, favours and permission
“como si” plus subjuntive tenses
Revision of the four preterite tenses of the Indicative mode
Cursos Avanzados
(en español)
El curso avanzado consta de seis niveles – Niveles 15 a 20. Cada curso tiene una duración de 20 clases de hora y media y normalmente se imparte una vez por semana. El objetivo de estos cursos es perfeccionar un nivel ya bastante alto de la lengua castellana y son una continuación natural del Nivel 14 Intermedio Alto. Los niveles 15 al 20, sin embargo, se pueden tomar en cualquier orden.
Estos seis niveles del curso avanzado están diseñados para responder a la creciente demanda de gente que ha completado el Nivel Intermedio Alto y usa el español habitualmente por razones sociales, laborales, personales o porque sencillamente reside en o viaja a España o América Latina.
Si uno ya se comunica con bastante fluidez, tiene un conocimiento gramatical y léxico amplio y está habituado a la idiosincrasia hispana pero aún nota carencias en la gramática, el vocabulario, en la comunicación o en el conocimiento de la cultura hispana entonces estos cursos pueden resultar muy útiles y, sobre todo, entretenidos.
El programa del nivel avanzado cuenta principalmente con temas de interés cultural, actividades para enriquecer el vocabulario y ejercicios de gramática. El material didáctico es muy variado y es auténtico: artículos de diarios y revistas, programas de radio y televisión, documentales y películas, obras literarias, canciones, etc. Las clases de estos niveles están particularmente centradas en el alumno que participa de una manera muy autónoma y creativa en el desarrollo de las mismas.
Algunos temas que se ven son: la actualidad española, música (flamenco, tango y salsa), el arte español y latinoamericano, la historia reciente de España, personajes literarios españoles, América Latina, la economía, los animales, La Alpujarra a través de los cinco sentidos, las redes sociales, estilos de vida, la vida en el campo, la espiritualidad, etc.
Cada tema cuenta asimismo con actividades que ayudan a consolidar vocabulario específico en la comprensión y en la producción oral y escrita, diferencia de matiz entre palabras, uso de frases hechas, expresiones idiomáticas, argot, etc.
Por último, el programa hace hincapié en contenidos gramaticales que suelen presentar una cierta dificultad a hablantes de este nivel como pueden ser: el modo subjuntivo, diferencias entre tiempos pretéritos, oraciones condicionales, palabras o frases que actúan de enlaces (aunque, pues, sin embargo, con el fin de, ya que, etc.), verbos auxiliares en casos como acabar de, volver a, soler, dejar de + infinitivo, llevar, ir, seguir + gerundio, tener, ser + participio, contraste entre formas simples y pronominales de verbos (ir-irse, venir-venirse, caer-caerse, dormir-dormirse, levantar-levantarse, etc.) y muchos otros que surgen naturalmente en el transcurso de una clase.
Este curso avanzado es, en suma, un curso para sacarse todas las dudas que uno pueda tener y, sobre todo, para disfrutar, en un ambiente distendido mediante el estudio y la comunicación, de una cultura que es el producto histórico de gentes que comparten el mismo idioma.