Free courses

It isn't just we "extranjeros" who need to learn Spanish, the Spaniards also recognise their need to learn English.

So the Town Hall are putting on the following free courses.

ENGLISH GENERAL (40 HOURS)
Directed to people with minimum or no knowledge of English who need to communicate in this language in their daily lives.
Contents: To use suitable dialogue:
- To greet and address people
- To describe things
- To communicate by telephone
- To ask and to respond to basic questions relative to personal data (name, address, telephone number, etc.)
- To include/understand and to translate basic texts in English language

ENGLISH ATTENTION TO THE PUBLIC (30 HOURS)
Directed to administrative personnel who need to speak directly or by telephone to people who speak mainly English.
Contents: To use suitable dialogue:
- To greet and address people
- To receive and to take care of the public
- To identify what they need or what they want to know
- To ask and to respond to basic questions relative to personal data, etc.
- To take care of telephone calls
- To include/understand and to translate basic texts in English language

ENGLISH IN CONVERSATION (30 HOURS)
Directed to public in general (depending on the level of the students)

IT TYPES (25 HOURS)
Directed to any person who wants to learn to write correctly.
Methodology: the learning would by means of a program, where each student will have a key which will enable him to follow his rate.

QUARK XPRESS (25 HOURS)
Directed to all the people who wish to learn to create documents with this market leading computer program. The course is for those who have never used Quark XPress before.
Program:
- Introduction
- the "Tools" of Quark XPress
- working with text
- working with images
- fitting the image to the picture
- menus
- printing documents

Apparently there is a big demand for courses in English hence the three levels. Let's hope they get a good take up for them. We are enjoying learning Spanish and use it as much as we can but there are times when it helps if we can communicate in English.

PS Apparently there are plans to build a new language school just down the road from us where they will teach English to Spaniards and Spanish to English people. Nothing ever stays still for long in Bigastro.