4 hours per week over 4 weeks. 16 hours total. Intensive course to prepare people for travelling or working in Spanish speaking country.

The next course will start in October 2010.

In order to maximize learning groups will be limited to a maximum of 10 students per class.

This programme is aimed at people who have a very basic level of Spanish but who now have an interest in improving their conversation skills or for those people wishing to travel to or work in a Spanish speaking country.

There is a specific emphasis on learning to speak in everyday language and also on key grammar points and phrases in order to be understood when working or travelling in a Spanish speaking country. The main focus of this course is to increase fluency in spoken Spanish therefore students will be encouraged and helped to speak Spanish at all times in the classroom. Classes will be very much student-centered and the teacher will design the material to be covered around what the students’ objectives and aims are.

Certificate in “Spanish Language for Conversation, Work and Travel” from The Learning Curve Institute

To equip students will the tools to enable them to hold conversations in Spanish, and to apply for jobs, work and travel in a Spanish speaking country. To allow students to learn the specific parts of the Spanish language that they desire whether this is in relation to general conversation, working or travelling.

Students will receive handouts, worksheets and notes to enable them to speak, listen, read and write in Spanish using everyday modern language. In each 2 hour session 75% of the class time will be allocated to speaking and the other 25% will be allocated to important grammar points and listening. Students will carry out lots of different scenarios and role plays of situations in order to get them to practice real life situations that arise in a Spanish speaking country.

1. To equip students with the tools to be able to hold a conversation in Spanish, apply for a job, work and travel in a Spanish speaking country.
2. To build on and expand existing knowledge within the group.
3. To enhance confidence in students’ general spoken Spanish ability.
4. To equip students with the ability to speak in a manner that is used in everyday language in Spanish speaking countries and is understood by Spanish speakers.
5. To provide students with the tools to form Cover Letters, CVs, emails and other written documents relating to work and travel in Spanish speaking countries.

Basic level of Spanish language and grammar terms or The Certificate in Spanish Language Level 1 from The Learning Curve Institute.

Assessment will be carried out through continuous assessment of written pieces, role plays, comprehensions and listening exercises.

The Learning Curve Institute offers a unique post course support system whereby students are provided with the contact details of the lecturer and are free to contact him/her with any questions they may have or even documents (CVs, Cover Letters, application forms) that they would like the lecturer to help them with.

Students will each be supplied with a hardback notebook, folder and pen for the duration of the course. Students are encouraged to bring a Spanish-English dictionary to every class. No other books are needed as all materials will be supplied by The Learning Curve Institute.

Castlebar, Co. Mayo

Please contact The Learning Curve Institute on 098 25530 or info@thelearningcurve.ie for more information.