English is the “world language” that helps people from different countries communicate in various fields like business, academics, fashion, and computers.

In the “Intensive English Language Course for Education Staff,” teachers from various countries and schools took on the challenge of learning the language with a positive mindset, exerting maximum effort in every proposed activity.

The new edition of the course  took place in  Tenerife from 11/11/2023 to 17/11/2023 We had the pleasure to welcome a group composed by Ilze Rozenberga and Diāna Eglīte from Babite Secondary school in Latvia, Juhani Luotola from Omnia in Finland, and Mariann Pogácsás, Nóra Bardi and Veronika Kiss from Lilla Teri Altalános Iskola in Hungary. 

Throughout the week, the participants worked on improving five key skills: using English, listening, reading, writing, and speaking.

We started by introducing ourselves and talking about our jobs. We learned some basic words and focused a lot on an important verb: “to be.” This verb helps us describe things, talk about age, feelings, nationalities, and more.

From the second day onward, each morning began with a review of the new knowledge gained through a recap activity. Learning a language involves effort and practice, so every theory session in the course was complemented with numerous exercises and activities.

We covered a lot of grammar, which is like the foundation of a language. We learned about prepositions, articles, and important verb tenses. But the course also related everything to everyday situations. We saw that the 5W help us add information to a sentence, organized daily tasks, and picked up vocabulary for routine activities, time, and schedules, including weekly planning.
We also talked about jobs, travelling.

We practice on how to form questions and negative and affirmative sentences, also practicing how to answer questions.

During the week we learned about the possessive determines and the definite and indefinite articles .

To help us learn better, we used games, quizzes, readings, and real-life simulations in our assessments and activities. The participants took on the speaking challenges with excitement and used every break to chat in English, sharing experiences about their schools and countries.

The week was really productive, they improved their English quickly, and we hope they keep up the positive attitude and the multicultural environment they created in just one week.

Discover more about this course here.