INTENSIVE COURSES

The main objective of these courses is to provide the students with the skills necessary to understand and communicate in Spanish.

However, they are designed for those who need more intensive teaching in a shorter time.

They consist of six lessons a day (50 minutes a lesson) from Monday to Friday (except feast days) with a morning and afternoon timetable for two weeks:

- The two first sessions each day are designed to work on the lexis and grammar contents necessary to develop a certain communicative function in Spanish (e.g. imperative for instructions).

- During the third and fourth sessions those grammatical contents will be practised through written communication activities.

- During the afternoon session we will go over the same language points, but now through oral communication activities.

This course timetable is the following:

In case you´d like to see an example of how these sessions are developed any day click A day in La Plaza de Babel.

As with the standard courses, special care of placing you in the level most adequate for your knowledge is taken, but, since you have to work on the same contents in a shorter time we have established two levels:

These are their objectives:

Logically these same objectives are the guidelines followed in the elaboration of our level test. Those who'd like to study Spanish in our school must complete it when registering but, of course, we will consider your opinion and try to adapt ourselves to your needs and if, when at the school, you think the level assigned for you is not adequate tell it to our academic director.

Anyway, we advise you to read our chapter Programs. It is a summary of our program designed according to Instituto Cervantes's indications.

Finally, remember that because of the special characteristics of these courses they have to begin at certain fixed dates. The 2002 calendar is: