Modalidad/Lugar: BARCELONA
GENERAL SPANISH INTENSIVE
- Descripción
Development of the four skills, especially listening comprehension and speaking.
Intensive courses are an effective way of learning Spanish and improving one’s language fluency in the longer term.
We focus firmly on ensuring that our students rapidly acquire the language skills they need in a Spanishspeaking setting. The classes are both enjoyable and eminently practical, helping students pick up the language right from the first day. The cultural programme included in the course deepens students’ knowledge of the language and provides them with the historical, social, artistic and political background they need to understand Spanish.
Students per group
Minimum 6
Maximum 10
- Duración del curso:
Start (Every fortnight) 2009:
12 January, 2 February, 16 February, 2 March, 16 March, 20 April, 4 May, 18 May, 2 June, 15 June, 6 July, 20 July, 3 August, 17 August, 31 August, 14 September, 5 October, 19 October, 2 November, 16 November.
Length
2 weeks (minimum)
24 (maximum)
22 hours per week
+ visits/excursions
Cultural Programme
(minimum of 2 per month)
Monday to Friday
9.30h - 14h
Programa
The Language classes focus on students and their needs. Students’ linguistic needs and progress are assessed on an individual basis.
The course enhances students’ verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Apart from conversation, classes also cover: listening comprehension reading comprehension writing skills and the differences between formal and informal registers.
Group sizes are carefully chosen to maximize practice and student participation, ensuring active learning that goes far beyond simply learning grammatical and spelling rules: students share life experiences and information in the process of discovering Barcelona. The process of improving students’ Spanish is enhanced by a multi-cultural climate and a cross-fertilization of ideas. English/Spanish exchanges are also organized with Spaniards of different ages and professional profiles from among those studying English at ESADE (when available).
The cultural programme includes:
• Lectures on Spain’s best-known painters (Picasso, Dalí, Miró) Art Nouveau architecture (Gaudí) Spanish and Latin American literature (Magic Realism, Lorca, Cervantes) the history of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and Latin America Spanish Society (celebrities, the media, politics, customs and cultural differences arising in dayto- day contact with Spaniards).
• Spanish and Latin American films, which provide an excellent tool for improving students’ listening comprehension and understanding the cultural situation of the country where they were made.
• Workshops (dancing, theatrical improvisation, etc.)
• Cultural visits to places of interest in and around Barcelona.
Included and prepared by course teachers
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