The Spanish Lessons

You will receive Spanish lessons according to your level. By giving you an assessment examination, both oral and written, we test your current level. At the end of every week onwards examinations are offered to measure your progress.

We want to fit your individual learning needs by using different teaching methods. The objective is not only that you have a good understanding of grammar, but also that you know how to use it while writing, speaking and reading.

Speaking: A very important objective of the lessons is that you use the grammar learned to have conversations in the streets. Teachers will use materials, roll plays and activities to make you talk about different subjects, using all the grammar you've had before.

Reading: You get to read articles, literature, fairy tales, and more... out loud. This will improve your pronunciation and you will learn new vocabulary. These reading texts are also used to open up discussions, opportunities to talk.

Listening: To improve your listening skills, you get to listen to songs filling in the missing words, recorded fairy tales or DVD's. All these materials are used to practice different grammar subjects. Like reading texts, you learn new vocabulary and discuss the recordings later.

Writing: Your writing skills are tested while making exercises in class, writing short stories or making homework.

Grammar: Grammar is taught in an interactive way. The teachers will test your understanding constantly by asking examples to you. Sometimes teachers make you discover the grammar rules by yourself using short stories or video.

Testing: Teachers will test your speaking, reading, listening and writing level constantly in class by practicing it with you. You can also ask for a test after a period of time to measure your progress.

Group classes are given to a maximum of 5 persons, to ensure individual attention as well as the positive aspects of group interaction. The persons in the group must have the same Spanish proficiency.
Group classes start on Mondays until Friday and are 4 hours* a day, so 20 hours per week.

They mainly take place in the morning from 8:30 to 12:50, with a break from 10:30 to 12:50,

sometimes In the afternoon from 14:00 to 18:20, with a break from 16:00 to 16:20.

Normally the first hour of lessons is used to go over the items learned the day before and to check your homework.
The second hour of class, a new grammar item is introduced.
After the break, the folowing two hours consists of practice, to use the new grammar in conversation, listening, reading and writing. The teachers use different teaching methods such as audio / visual materials, games, etc.

Group lessons have a fixed structure, with every day a new grammar item. Every week we offer different groups at different levels.

* 1 Hour of classes is 60 minutes.

Individual classes are more flexible, you can take 2 hours a day or more (blocks of 2 hours), some or all days of the week. The classes will be tailor-made according to your wishes. Individual lessons are a good option;
- If you only have 1 week to study and you are a beginner. Then you can focus on usefull conversation skills.
- If you want to review specific grammar items
- If there is a big difference between your oral and your written level
- If you are a professional and you want to learn specific vocabulary related to your occupation, such as a technical or medical.
- If you do not have time to study from Monday until Friday.

We also teach Spanish to children from 9 to 15 years old in a special and individual way, using plays, drawings and fairy tales.

On Saturday mornings you can do individual lessons as well!!

Apart from individual and group lessons you can take semi-individual lessons.

Semi-individual lessons are possible if you are a group of friends or a couple. They are organized for 2 persons minimum, who have the same level. You can agree on how many hours and which days you would like to study and on a focus, like you would during individual lessons.

Students can decide every week which type of lessons fits best their needs.

One of the objectives of the school is to make students feel at home. This is done by giving personal attention, but also by offering free tea and coffee, the use of free internet computers, WiFi, comfortable sitting areas and even a fussball table to play in the breaks. To give you an impression of the school, check out these photos.

We are very proud of the teachers working at the school. Creating a good working spaces is very important to us, as it directly effects the quality of the lessons.

Our courses are taught by teachers who speak Spanish as a native language to assure effective and fast learning.
The objective is that you speak as much Spanish as possible.
The teachers have a good understanding of the English language to help you get started with the basic vocabulary.
Teachers are full time contacted to ensure quality. We do not make use of teacher eventually, thus they have a lot of expoerience with different students with differnt learning types.
To ensure a uniform way of teaching teachers all have completed an in house treaning program.

Here we present you the teachers we have.

Renzo