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Spanish House offers ESL classes during the week and weekend. Group and private classes are available for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Small group classes typically include 5 – 6 students and are conducted in an “all-English” environment. Classes are offered 4 - 6 hours per week, or 16 - 20 hours per month. More intensive schedules are avaialble. Call or email for more information!

Prices**

Group ESL classes: $10/hour
Private ESL classes: $30/hour

All textbooks are $30, and the registration fee is $25.

Class Descriptions

INTRO

• Using the verb to be
• Creating questions with who and where
• Simple present and present continuous verb tenses
• Prepositions of time
• Frequency adverbs
• Count & Noncount nouns
• Possessive & demonstrative adjectives
• Describing oneself (nationality, family, professions, etc.)

BEGINNING 1 

• Review simple present & present continuous verb tenses
• Review count & noncount nouns (including quantity expressions some, any, much, many, a lot of)
• Object & possessive pronouns
• Prepositions of place
• Physical and emotional descriptors
• Describing people & places

BEGINNING 2 

• Future tense (be going to)
• Simple past
• Using because
• Time clauses with when
• Using can and could
• Using present continuous to express future time
• Imperative mode
• Describing future plans and remembering past events

INTERMEDIATE 1 

• Simple Present vs. Present Continuous
• Review simple past
• Comparative & superlative adjectives
• Stative (non-action) verbs
• Adverbs of manner
• Giving advice
• Review imperative tense
• Future tenses (be going to and will)

INTERMEDIATE 2

• Time clauses using before, after and when
• Past continuous
• Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
• Verb + infinitive
• Present perfect
• Modal expressions (may, could)
• Verb + infinitive vs. Verb + gerund
•  Used to (past expression)
• Comparative adjectives (as…as)

ADVANCED 1

• Future forms/modals of future possibility
• Participial and prepositional phrases
• Review present perfect
• Introduction to phrasal verbs
• Using gerund as subject
• Future time clauses

ADVANCED 2 

• Passive voice in present and past tenses
• Conjunctions because, so, although
• Reported speech
• Present perfect continuous
• Present perfect continuous vs. Present perfect
• Too and enough
• Conditional tenses (real and unreal)
• Wish-statements
• Expressions with get