Starting Thursday 1 st of May 2025
Format: face-to-face on site Location: ‘Rock Cottage’ (240-248 West Street, BS3 3NE)
Duration: 10 weeks (with a break for half-term) Day/Time: Thursdays 8-9.30 pm CEFR Level: A2.1 Course fee: £169 Early Bird (before 15th March) / £189 afterwards
Course book: Aula Internacional Plus 2 – Libro del alumno (Difusión, 2020).
Not included in the course fee. Used in levels Elementary 1 (this term) and Elementary 2 (next term). Languages Direct offers our students 10 % discount (code SCBDIF1). Also available on Amazon (first hand or second hand) and other retailers.
This course is suitable for students with a Beginner knowledge of Spanish (i.e. have attended a full Beginner course, received around 30 hours of tuition or picked up the basic language while travelling). Before joining the course, students should have learned how to use the Present Tense and Present Continuous Tense. Students should have previously covered most of the content in the course programme for our Beginner 2 level.
The level A2.1 refers to the European CEFR levels, not the UK A-Levels (which is a higher level).
COURSE INFORMATION
In this course you will have the chance to…
Meet new people with a common interest and have fun learning together ☺
Have face to face conversations in Spanish with the tutor and classmates
Continue developing your listening, speaking, interacting, reading and writing skills
Expanding your knowledge of Spanish to an A2.1 level of the CEFR
Start learning the past tenses
By the end of the course you will have acquired the necessary language skills to understand a native speaker talking to you about the topics we covered in the course. You will also be able to talk with more confidence about the topics we covered in the course.
After completing this course, students will be able to continue with their Spanish studies by joining the Elementary 2 course (A2.2).
* CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference for languages
Based on coursebook Aula Internacional Plus 2 – Libro del alumno (Difusión, 2020)
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Course Information
This course is suitable for students with a Beginner knowledge of Spanish (i.e. have attended a full Beginner course, received around 30 hours of tuition or picked up the basic language while travelling). Before joining the course, students should have learned how to use the Present Tense and Present Continuous Tense. The level A2.1 refers to the European CEFR levels, not the UK A-Levels (which is a higher level).
In this course you will have the chance to…
Meet new people with a common interest and have fun learning together ☺
Have face to face conversations in Spanish with the tutor and classmates
Continue developing your listening, speaking, interacting, reading and writing skills
Expanding your knowledge of Spanish to an A2.1 level of the CEFR
Learn how to use one of the past tenses: Pretérito Perfecto
Learn how to use some expressions to talk about the future
By the end of the course you will have acquired the necessary language skills to understand a native speaker talking to you about the topics we covered in the course. You will also be able to talk with more confidence about the topics we covered in the course.
After completing this course, students will be able to continue with their Spanish studies by joining the Elementary 2 course (A2.2).
See course programme, course book and T&Cs below.
If you have any questions about this course, please email maria@spanishcoursesbristol.co.uk
* CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference for languages
Terms & Conditions
There will be a maximum of 15 students in the class.
The course materials included in the price are any materials used in class (i.e. handouts, games, PDFs, Power Points, audio files and links to online activities), which will be sent by email as well.
Students will have to purchase a course book which costs around £25 new (but second hand copies of the book are accepted). The book covers levels Beginner 1, Beginner 2, Elementary 1 and Elementary 2.
The course fee paid for this course is not transferrable to any future courses.
Missed classes policy: if a student misses one or more classes, the teacher will send them an email with the learning materials used in class during those sessions so they can catch up at home. It is the student’s responsibility to catch up and continue attending their course. Missed lessons will not be refunded. Students who have missed a considerable number of lessons cannot automatically retake this lessons in the next term as the fee paid is for the current course only. However, the school may offer them the opportunity to retake the lessons if, after the enrolment period has finished, some of the places have not been filled.
Cancellation policy: if a student wishes to withdraw from the course, they must notify SCB by email. With 2 weeks notice or more, full refund. With 1 week notice, 50 % refund. With less than 1 week notice, no refund.
For the course to go ahead, a minimum of 6 students is required. If the week before the course starts a group has less than 6 students registered, that group may have to be cancelled and registered students will receive a full refund. Alternatively, the course can still go ahead, but the fee will have to be increased.
This course does not lead to an official certificate; students can register for official DELE or GCSE exams independently. SCB can advise on where to take the exams and offer additional exam preparation classes.
