| Spanish Courses: description and dates (2006) |
| Spanish Intensive Course |
| This course consists of 5 classes daily, 3 grammar and 2 practical classes. The activities and exercises focus on the development of oral and written skills based on real language communications. This course allows students to improve their oral skills and reach a higher level of linguistic competence in a shorter time. |
Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday of the year Minimum Length: 1 week |
| Spanish Superintensive Course |
This course consists of 5 classes daily, 3 grammar and 2 practical classes in groups of a maximum of 7 students. But also this course includes one private lesson per day. |
Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday of the year Minimum Length: 1 week |
| Spanish General Course |
This course consists of 4 classes daily (2 grammar and 2 practical lessons). Its main aim is to ensure that pupils get fully involved in the life of the city, the same as any other student who comes to study in Cádiz would, which explains why classes are held only in university term-time between October and June. This course doesn't take place during the Peak Season. |
| Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday between october and june Minimum Lengt h: 4 weeks |
| DELE Preparatory Course |
This course prepares students to sit for the exams organised by the Instituto Cervantes. This course consists of 6 lessons per day, 3 grammar, 2 practical and 1 lesson for the specifc exam tests (reading comprenhension, written and oral expresion, etc.) |
Levels: INICIAL, BÁSICO and SUPERIOR |
| Intensive + Spanish for Tourism |
| If you would like to learn or improve your Spanish, and you are interested in working in the tourism sector, this course is perfect for you. It consists of 5 Spanish language classes per day and one class specifically on “Spanish for Tourism”, in which you will learn the vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary to succeed in this important professional sector. |
Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday of the year Minimum Length: 1 week |
| Intensive + Spanish for Business |
Like the previous course, this course consists of 5 Spanish language lessons per day and one lesson which focuses on the vocabulary and grammatical structures related to the world of business and international commerce |
| Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday of the year Minimum Length: 1 week |
| Intensive + Spanish Culture |
| This course includes 5 Spanish language lessons per day and a lesson in Spanish Culture, where you will be able to learn about the most significant aspects of our society, politics, economy, art, literature and history |
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Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday of the year Minimum Length: 1 week |
| Carnival Course |
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• This course consists of 6 lessons a day and is held only during the Carnival period It lasts for two weeks. It is held at all levels and it is a good way to get to know and to enjoy the Carnival of Cádiz, one of the most popular and amusing Spanish “fiestas”, while you practice your Spanish. |
Levels: All Date of commencement: 20 february 2006 Length: 2 weeks febrero Duración: 2 semanas. |
| Easter Course |
| Six classes daily of a similar nature to those described above, except that this course is held only during the Holy Week, when the “procesiones” leave each of the town´s churches to wind slowly around the streets in the old town every night. |
| Levels: All Dates of commencement: 3 and 10 april 2006 Length: 2 weeks |
| Intensive + Flamenco Course (Beginners) |
| This special offer consists of an Intensive Spanish Course in the mornings combined with a Flamenco Dancing Course for beginners in the afternoons. It comprises 5 Spanish language lessons and 2 dance lessons per day |
| Levels (Spanish): All Dates of commencement: 8 may, 5 june, 3 and 31 july and 14 august Length: 1 or 2 weeks |
| Flamenco Dancing Course (Beginners) |
It consists of two dancing lessons a day and can be followed together with any other Spanish course offered by GADIR. Students who wish to enrol for this Flamenco Dancing Course with GADIR, will learn or perfect “zapateados”, “marcajes”, “braceos” and “cierres” of the different “palos” of flamenco with an expert flamenco dancer, and also in Cádiz, the place were the flamenco was born. |
| Level: Beginners Dates of commencement: 8 may, 5 june, 3 and 31 july and 14 august Length: 1 or 2 weeks |
| Spanish for Tourism |
| This course, which comprises 2 lessons per day, is specifically designed for professionals working in the tourism sector, or people who wish to follow a professional career in this important industry. The course content prepares students for the examinations in “Spanish for Tourism” carried out by the Madrid Chamber of Commerce . |
| Minimum Level: Intermediate (B1) Dates of commencement: 3 and 31 july and 14 august. Length: 2 weeks. |
| Spanish for Business |
This course, which comprises 2 lessons per day, is ideal for students, businessmen and women, or those interested in business and international commerce who would like to perfect their grasp of the language used in the business world. The course content is intended to prepare students for the examinations in “Spanish for Business” carried out by the Madrid Chamber of Commerce |
| Minimum Level: Intermediate (B1) Dates of commencement: 3 and 31 july and 14 august. Length: 2 weeks. |
| Spanish Culture |
| This course, which comprises 2 lessons per day, deals with the most significant aspects of Spanish socio-cultural reality, covering the main artistic movements, the most relevant historical events and the geopolitical factors which determine our current circumstances. |
| Minimum Level: Intermediate (B1) Dates of commencement: 3 and 31 july and 14 august. Length: 2 weeks. |
| Perfection Course |
| It's a three-classes a day course for those pupils who already have a vast knowledge of Spanish grammar and syntax and who wish to expand upon it. This course combines lexical, syntactical and semantic aspects of the Spanish language which present particular difficulty, with the study of colloquial Spanish, its turns of phrase, its idioms and expressions which are not found in grammar books. |
| Level: Superior (C2) Dates of commencement: 3 and 31 july and 14 august. Length: 2 weeks. |
| Private Lessons |
| The pupil decides how many classes he/she wants and what he/she wishes to study in them (so-called "made-to-measure" classes). |
Levels: All Dates of commencement: Each monday of the year Duration: To be chosen |