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Goals Course Features Price Includes Time Schedule-Example Locations

The Intensive course aims at developing your communicative competences in the four main skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing. The lessons provide you contextualized grammar and expose you to the local culture. Teachers will assign you out of-class exercises to reinforce the content of the lessons.

Goals

To prepare the Participant to approach different situations of everyday life in Spanish for either personal, professional or educational purposes.
To help students develop intercultural skills, as well as to support the effective learning progress.

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Course Features

Price includes

Number of students per class: Small Groups: from 3 to 9 students, depending on the location in Latin América and from 5 to 12 students, depending on the location in Spain.
Lessons per week: This course includes 20 or 25 Spanish Group lessons, depending on the location.
Lesson Length: 1 Lesson = 40 to 55 minutes, depending on location.
Minimum Age: 16 years old (For all regular courses in Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Bariloche, Mendoza, Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia; Chile: Santiago and Guatemala: Antigua); 18 years old, the rest of the destinations.
Mininum Duration: 1 week.
Levels: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced.

Spanish level test,
Spanish course,
Welcome package,
Support and Advice,
Weekly Tours and Recreational activities calendar,
End of course exam,
Course certificate,
24/7 Emergency Phone,
Telephone and fax machine access (Low cost),
Internet access (Free or low cost),
COINED Tutorship,
Coffee, tea, milk, spring/refrigerated water available.

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Example of Time Schedule

N°	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
2 group lessons	Warm up session / Reading comprehension / Grammar context / Transition: game and vocabulary exercises	Warm up session: homework correction / Games / Grammar in context / Excercises / Reading comprehension / Language activity	Warm up session: homework correction / Reading and comprehension exercises / Transition: role play / Grammar in context	Warm up session: homework / Reading and comprehension exercises / Transition: role play / Grammar in context	Weekly Test (20 minutes) / review: grammar topics of the week / Activity: movie
*Coffee Break*
2 group lessons	Speaking game / Audio comprehension / Writing / Closing session: grammar in context / task assignment: exercised skills / Homework	Grammar in context / Exercises / Card games / Reading comprehension / Group activity / Outdoor class / Homework	Audio comprehension exercises / Grammar in context / Speaking exercises / Laboratory: writing / Homework	Reading comprehension / Activity: audio comprehension with video / Close session: grammar in context / Homework	Speaking activity: discussion of the movie / Writing exercise / Homework
*Lunch Time*