Adult Courses

Beginners

This is a progressive course with emphasis on conversation and culture for those without any knowledge of Spanish. Each term is thematic and you will learn different topics. You will learn about asking and giving personal information, describing where you live, describing daily routines, what you do after work, clubs, sports, etc. You will learn about the phonetic sounds and the present tense grammatical structures: regular and irregular verbs, radical changing verbs and reflexive verbs.

There are 4 levels to be completed in 4 trimesters of 1 hour lessons.

Beginners Plus

This is a progressive course with emphasis on conversation and culture for those with at least one year’s knowledge of Spanish and being familiar with the present tense grammatical structures. At the end of this course students will achieve the equivalent of the GCSE foundation tier. You will learn about the future and past tenses with many different topics: Holidays, spare time, describing a day out, talking about experiences, food, restaurants, relationships, personalities, incidents and accidents, etc.

There are 4 levels to be completed in 4 trimesters of 1 hour lessons.

Entry requirements: Written test here and oral test over the telephone.

Intermediate

This is a progressive course with emphasis on conversation and culture for those with a good understanding of the Spanish grammatical structures; present, past, future and conditional. Students must have at least two years’ experience learning the language. This course is ideal for those wanting to refresh their conversational skills. At the end of this course students will achieve the equivalent of a GCSE foundation tier. You will learn about daily routines, chores, accidents, family, festivals, holidays, food and drinks, buying souvenirs, transport, getting directions to go to places, etc.

There are 4 levels to be completed in 4 trimesters of 1 hour lessons.

Entry requirements: Written test here and oral test over the telephone.

Intermediate Plus

This is a progressive course with emphasis on conversation and culture for those with a good understanding of the Spanish grammatical structures; present, past, future and conditional. Students must have at least two years’ experience learning the language. This course is ideal for those wanting to refresh their conversational skills. At the end of this course students will achieve the equivalent of the GCSE higher tier. You will learn about work experience, part time jobs, describing and talking about films, technology, shopping habits, health and environment, etc.

There are 4 levels to be completed in 4 trimesters of 1 hour lessons.

Entry requirements: Written test here and oral test over the telephone.

Advanced

This is a progressive course with emphasis on conversation and culture for those who have completed the previous courses or have studied Spanish for at least four or five years. At the end of this course, students will achieve the equivalent of A level. At this level, students are able to describe and discuss many modern topics such as; the role of women at work and at home, feminism, chauvinism, society and gay marriage. Positive and negative influence of singers, musicians, politicians in our society, the national and local identity in Spain, South America and England, etc.

There are 4 levels to be completed in 4 trimesters of 1 hour lessons.

Entry requirements: Written test here and oral test over the telephone.

Proficiency

This is a progressive course with emphasis on conversation and culture for those who have completed the previous courses or have studied Spanish for at least six years. At this level, students are able to describe and discuss many modern topics such as; immigration and integration, racism, poverty in Europe and developing countries, link between poverty and health, charities and governments, antisocial and criminal behaviour, impact of medical and scientific research and men and women in power and war.

There are 4 levels to be completed in 4 trimesters of 1 hour lessons.

Entry requirements: Written test here and oral test over the telephone.