Story telling with Rocio Ruiz
Warren Hardy Spanish is excited about our new "Storytelling" course.
This is a transitional course from Level 2 before moving into Level 3.
This is a great course for comprehension and conversation as it is taught mostly in Spanish by Rocio Ruiz, one of our WHS teachers. The first part of the course has a grammar component that teaches the Imperfect tense and reviews the Preterite tense. Students learn to combine the Preterite and the Imperfect. Then we converse using the Preterit and Imperfect correctly and with confidence by writing and telling stories about our lives, travels and adventures.
We are offering this course for the rest of this year at a discounted cost of $150US. Materials needed are the VerbCards and Level 3 Workbook. Class size is limited to 8 students.
Enroll now for the July 19-August 4 course.
Call Tuli at 154 4017 (9-12noon) or 152 4728 afternoons and weekends.
I want to offer a personal testimonial for the Warren Hardy storytelling course, which I took with my husband, Cedric, a few weeks ago. We had finished Level II of the Warren Hardy program and currently use functional Spanish to meet many of our (simple) daily needs. In our case, the class was very good for several reasons: (1) the teacher spoke primarily in Spanish and had class members ask questions/comment in Spanish. (You are encouraged to converse in English to clarify more difficult concepts); (2) you have the opportunity to write personal narratives (e.g., aspects of your life story, an important vacation) in Spanish, which gives you the opportunity to use other important linguistic channels (reading, writing) that enhance second language learning; (3) you learn to distinguish the preterite and imperfect past tenses and moreover, practice using these tenses in the storytelling written exercises; (4) you also have opportunities to use the preterite and imperfect past tenses during exercises where you share your stories orally with other class members; and (5) you practice, in Warren Hardy style, using the tenses while generating sentences with a partner (this will be familiar to those who have taken other classes from Warren). The teacher, Rocio, is EXCELLENT. She is enthusiastic, focused, encouraging, clear in explaining concepts, supportive, and she made the class fun. She is one of these people who was born to teach. You will leave each class inspired and encouraged. Finally, I want to say that I made a significant leap in understanding conversational Spanish through taking this class. I’m not sure why, but it worked for me and I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to take the class. I hope this helps others in trying to decide whether or not to take the class. If you’re on the fence, take it! You can’t go wrong!
another good testimonial:
Absolutely agree with the other two comments. I took the class from Roscio and she was far and away the best instructor I’ve ever had. The class was fast and fun and I learned a great deal. The combination of solid instruction, class interaction, reading and writing meant that the concepts were strongly imprinted on my aging brain! I intend to take it again in the fall.
Carolyn Patten
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