General Objectives

To improve students' Spanish communication skills by combining classroom activities geared to young people with extracurricular activities appropriate to their age.

Description of the program

A complete, well-rounded program that includes coursework, activities and lodging. Students will be part of an international group of young people, including Spaniards, whose common language is Spanish which is tested in different situations:

1.  With their Spanish host families: with parents, children and room-mates.
2. In the classroom: with experienced teachers who specialize in teaching teenagers and studying material appropriate to their age and level.
3. Outside the classroom: participation in carefully planned activities organized according to the students' interest and their communication goals, well-supervised by their teachers, eg.:

• Sports and other leisure activities.
• Visits to must see sights (the Alhambra and other monuments and places of socio-cultural interest)
• Granada's richly varied natural setting: mountains, beach, countryside.
• Ceramics workshop with recognized masters from Granada; group sport games including boys, girls and teachers; salsa classes; the opportunity to meet young people their age; making paella in the school courtyard…

These activities involve Castila teachers and “local ambassadors”.