Spanish - Intermediate
This course is ideal for:
those who have already learned a few tenses and who will appreciate a bit more practise in them before moving on to a couple more towards the end of the unit.
The tenses my current learners have already done are:
As well as starting the lesson with general chit chat about our past weeks and past lives at the start of the lesson and more general chit chat about what we have planned for the coming few days and what we will be doing soon, we will be continuing to tackle the subjunctive in all its weird glory. The Spanish use this verb ‘mood’ in very many everyday situationsand so it cannot be avoided. To do this in a fun way we will be accompanying Detectiva Dolores (= sorrows/troubles in Spanish!) on the hunt for the elusive Señor Subjunctivo who leaves clues throughout the unit. There will be lots of new vocabulary and expressions too.
If you ever did an O Level (more in depth than a more recent GCSE) or AS/A Level in the past without going on to study Spanish at university and feel that you have forgotten a bit (but not too much), this is a good level to come back in at.
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Since my first of many twinning exchange trips to the Loire Valley in France and to the Ruhr Valley in Germany in my teens, I have always loved foreign languages, cultures and people (and of course the food and drink too). As part of my university studies, I spent eight months in Lorraine on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, four months in Nordrhein-Westfalen on the border with the Netherlands and four months in the city of Lyon. Having only started learning Spanish as an adult, I have not spent extensive amounts of time in Spain but I have holidayed there as well as in Peru. Before becoming a licencee with Language for Fun, I taught for twelve years in secondary schools, including one in Zambia near the border with French-speaking Congo. I have had many adventures in many Francophone, Germanophone and Hispanophone countries where my language 'skills' have both saved the day AND got me into a bit of hot water! Let me use MY cringeworthy past experiences of making hilarious mistakes save YOU from doing the same.
When I am not teaching or learning languages (I speak some Dutch and Italian now too), I enjoy swimming, reading and walking but I am particularly passionate about the performing arts; I think you will be able to tell this when you meet me! I look forward to meeting YOU!
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