BASIC AND PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVELS

• Familiarity with commonly used questions and phrases, while immersed in a new culture.
• Study of basic communicative and functional vocabulary.
• Use of games, mimicry
• Use of visual material
• Use of materials such as short newspaper articles, advertisements, literary texts, greeting cards, etc.

INTERMEDIATE LEVELS I AND II

• Use of more authentic material: movies, newspapers and documentaries in Spanish.
• Only Spanish is spoken in the classroom; the students’ native language is only used in emergency situations.

ADVANCED AND SUPERIOR LEVELS

• Use of materials exhibiting different Spanish levels.
• Use of short stories, interviews, etc.
• Special focus is placed on the use of idiomatic expressions.
• Comprehension and use of proverbs and idioms both spoken and written.
• Review of Spanish syntax with particular emphasis on the specific problems of each student.