The very first day the host family takes the student to the school at 8:30am.


Every student will take the placement test (oral proficiency interview and grammar test) This has no other purpose than place the student on the right group and the right level. Students are also evaluated every week.


After the test, student depart with the Student coordinator, for the city tour, to the surroundings of the School and then to the colonial site. The city tour is practical and very interesting for the students because it has a lot of historical information and plenty of suggestion on what to do and see during their stay.


Students return to the school for the orientation session. The school Director answer any questions students may have about the program, classes, host families, the city, etc. We then provide the student with the teaching material and a map of the city, marked with the location of the Academia and the host family.


The general schedule for the rest of the program is as follows:


08:30am – 10:30am: classes and lectures.
10:30am – 11:00am: coffee break.
11:00am – 13:00am: classes and lectures.


This will provide 20 classes of 60 minutes each. Teachers will also change each week so that students will have a significant variety of expertise within each week.


FIRST SESSION (8:30am to 10:30am)

This first session will be specifically dedicated to studying Grammar and to practicing Reading, Comprehension and Writing style.


GRAMMAR: Each student will study linguistic structures, grammatical functions and rules of Spanish. It has a very pragmatic approach in combination with a wide range of consolidation activities that are selected to reinforce the lesson of the day.


READING COMPREHENSION: The development of this skill will be carried out with real texts or didactically created ones that are coordinated to the lecture. With the help and guidance of the teacher, each student interpret the texts orally and in writing to further aid their comprehension. Orthographic rules, vocabulary and punctuation will also be reviewed.


SECOND SESSION (11:00am to 13:00pm)

This second session will be dedicated to studying oral comprehension and expression.


ORAL COMPREHENSION: The development of this skill will be carried out with real and didactically created documents that are designed to coordinate with the lecture. The student, with the help of the teacher and different comprehension activities, will then interpret the audio visual documents orally and/or in writing.


ORAL EXPRESSION: The student will participate interactively in a variety of different activities conducted by the teacher, such as presentations, debates, mini-plays, etc. These activities will be carried out with different materials proposed by the teacher or the students, depending on the everyone’s necessities or interests. Spanish Phonetics (pronunciation, rhythm of the sentences and so on) will also be studied.


This new program is based upon cultural elements as well as the language itself, thus adding a valuable dimension of the Latin American Culture.