El Patio Spanish

What are our classes like?

Classes are fun and social, from 5 to 14 students in size and with a teacher who knows how to teach languages! You'll be in a group with other like-minded people who are all wanting to learn and improve. 

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Students say ...

• I've LOVED the program so far and Africa is a great teacher who makes concepts very easy to understand. El Patio has a great program which has kept me constantly engaged - Sam Dowling

• Ramiro is a great teacher! So attentive and interested - he makes the class run smoothly with his sense of humour - Darren Tyrrell

• We started this term in Elementary 1 with Jorge and are having a ball! After each class we get on a high from the fun that we have each class. Jorge is an excellent teacher who has a really good understanding of languages and is able to explain things very clearly - Maddie Wooster

• Over the almost three years at El Patio I would like to say a big thank-you to all my teachers … and the rest of the El Patio team for inspiring me with their love of language, patience in explaining new ideas and most importantly making learning Spanish fun - Estelle Kamp

• I'd like to take this opportunity to say that we've really enjoyed learning Spanish with El Patio, and we've been very impressed with the quality of the teachers - Lindsay Hussey

What you learn ...

• talking about daily routines using reflexive verbs (me levanto / te levantas …)
• asking / telling time (¿qué hora es? / son las cinco y cuarto)
• using frequency markers (siempre / todos los días / a menudo / pocas veces …)
• putting activities in order (primero, luego, después / antes de, después de)
• talking about food
• ordering in a bar / restaurant (¿qué va a tomar? / un vino por favor)
• more irregular verbs in the present tense (PONER, TRAER)
• making general impersonal statements (se come, se cena, se beben)
• direct object pronouns (el café lo tomo con leche)
• talking about cities / your neighbourhood
• asking for the existence of a place (¿hay un/una ... por aquí?)
• asking where something is (¿dónde está el café?)
• saying where something is (está en esta calle al lado del banco)
• asking / giving directions to go there (¿cómo voy? / giras a la derecha ...)
• talking about unspecified persons or things (algo / nada / alguien / nadie / algún / ningún ...)
• introducing the first past tense (present perfect: haber + past participle)
• expressions of frequency used with the present perfect (muchas veces / varias veces / alguna vez)
• expressing likes and dislikes (lo que más me gusta …)
• talking about what you know how to do (SABER)
• talking about you are able to do (PODER)

Textbooks are needed for this course!

Find a Class

Class	Starting	Location	Price
Tuesdays 6-9pm	In 2 weeks (30/04/2019)	Melbourne (CBD)	$582.00
Saturdays 10.45am-1.45pm	In 2 weeks (04/05/2019)	Northcote (Westgarth)	$582.00 $552.00

Other Courses

• Express (1&2)

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