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El Patio is Melbourne's most popular language school!
What makes learning at El Patio so great:
- Outstanding teachers
- Over 100 classes per Term
- Friendly school
- Flexible timetable
- Face-to-Face, Online, and Hybrid delivery
- Our lessons are fun!
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What are our classes like?
You're going to love our classes and teachers! El Patio has over 20 years’ experience specialising in Spanish, with courses for everyone – from beginners through to fluency. All our teachers are qualified professionals. Classes are small (5–14 students), rigorous, and fun!
We offer three class formats:
- Face-to-Face (in person in our centres)
- Online (via Zoom)
- Hybrid (Online and Face-to-Face at the same time!)
Read a full description here.
Students say...
"After becoming frustrated at my lack of progress with their competitor, I received a recommendation for the classes at El Patio. Since enrolling I have never looked back, the teachers are knowledgeable, the students are great, the classes are fun, and my Spanish quickly improved enough to converse confidently with the locals when I arrived in Latin America."
- Angela Hayhurst
"Love El Patio! Been going for a few years now and have been consistently impressed by all the teachers and facilities. Hybrid (face-to-face and online) classes are working incredibly well."
- Geoff Lynch
"I have been studying at El Patio (Northcote branch) for quite a few years and love it. As a retired teacher, I know good teaching when I see it, and the teachers at El Patio are absolutely wonderful - caring, professional and fun. The class I am in has developed a great sense of unity and camradarie and I love going to it."
- Kathy Chambers
"I love the hybrid classes! It gives me the option to still go to class if I get home late from work, am super tired or am sick (important coming into winter/flu season). The flexibility is such a great thing and the setup of the classes seems to be working really well."
- Upper Intermediate 5 student
"Noryan is great with Zoom and I don’t think we miss anything from face-to-face interaction."
- Lower Intermediate 5 student
"The teachers are excellent and the lessons are well paced, not too fast or slow. I'd previously tried learning Spanish with a well-know language app, but found it slow going and not useful for real life. I've learned more in 5 lessons at El Patio than I did with 3 months of daily app use. So happy I've found this place."
- C. Angus
What you Learn...
En estos niveles de Upper Intermediate (1-6) vamos a trabajar con las siguientes estructuras verbales - entre otras muchas:
Upper Intermediate 1
- Opinar y aconsejar con el infinitivo
- Hablar de los hábitos y las costumbres (el verbo SOLER)
- Hablar de normas y obligaciones (usos de SER y ESTAR)
- Relatar hechos pasados con perífrasis de tiempo
Upper Intermediate 2
- Describir la situación o las circunstancias en las que se produjo un hecho (pretérito imperfecto de estar + gerundio)
- Expresar una acción pasada anterior a otra acción pasada (pretérito pluscuamperfecto)
- Verbos y expresiones con preposición
Upper Intermediate 3
- Expresar deseos, fiestas, celebraciones (presente de subjuntivo)
- Planes y proyectos (ojalá que + subjuntivo)
- Describir carácter y relaciones personales (subjuntivo)
Upper Intermediate 4
- Describir problemas (imperativo afirmativo y negativo)
- Aconsejar/recomendar (condicional simple)
Upper Intermediate 5
- Describir (la impersonalidad)
- Expresar opiniones (contraste indicativo - subjuntivo)
Upper Intermediate 6
- Formular hipótesis sobre el futuro (indivativo y subjuntivo)
- Ciertos usos de SE
Textbooks are required for all Upper Intermediate levels
What you learn...
- hablar de acciones y situaciones futuras (futuro simple)
- expresar condiciones (si + presente de indicativo, futuro)
- resumir el argumento de un libro o una película
- usar algunos conectores para relatar (entonces / al final / de pronto / de repente / como / sin embargo / aunque)
- forma y usos de pronombres de objeto directo y objeto indirecto
- vocabulario del cine y del mundo del entretenimiento
- vocabulario de la ciencia y la tecnología
Find a Class
No classes are currently available for this course. Perhaps you could try one of our other courses below. If you are having trouble finding a class get in touch now and we'll sort you out.
