Learning to speak a modern foreign language is a very enriching experience. The process of encouraging your child to step outside their comfort zone whilst having fun is an excellent way to build their confidence. It also enhances your child’s analytical thinking and strengthens their memory, as they learn new vocabulary and grammar. Learning to speak another language will also enhance your child’s communication skills and give them a major sense of achievement.

Visiting a Spanish-speaking country becomes a far more meaningful experience if your child can connect better with their surroundings through speaking. In my thirty years of leading school trips as a French and Spanish secondary teacher, nothing beats seeing students beam with pride when they find that they can order their own ice-cream or meal or ask how to get to a particular place!

This club is specifically designed for students who want to improve their spoken Spanish. It is ideal for young people wanting to improve their Spanish conversation skills for holidays, as well as students preparing to take the GCSE exam, together with any young person who is inspired by the joy of speaking a different language!

We will cover general conversation themes such as introductions and talking about yourself and your family, together with transactional Spanish for situations like shopping, buying transport tickets, going to a pharmacy, checking in to a hotel and reporting problems. We will also look at how to describe a particular scene, which is one of the requirements of the new GCSE Spanish speaking exam (and remember, the speaking component counts for 25% of the Spanish GCSE exam).

This course is ideal for students to do alongside both years one and two of our Spanish GCSE class, students in our Spanish Intermediate year 2 class who have GCSE in their sights, or any young person who has a prior knowledge of Spanish and wants to focus on improving their oral fluency.

Please note:

• If a class with exactly the same name is on more than once a week it is a repeat lesson with the same content. As places are limited and so you don’t have duplicate lessons please only sign up for the one class per week. This will leave spaces for other customers and stop any additional cost to yourself as we will be unable to give a refund.
• On occasions we may have to change the day or time of a course or on rare occasions the course is cancelled. This maybe due to a teacher leaving or low numbers. We do try to do this only when absolutely necessary and will always give advance warning and try to offer an alternative for you.
• Standard classes are £3 and numbers are limited to 40. Smaller classes (e.g, GCSE) are £6 are per student and classes are kept smaller at 25 maximum. If there is more than 1 child joining a £6 class you need to make sure you have added the correct amount to your basket. We reserve the right to ask for back payments if this does not happen.
• For safeguarding purposes, every Zoom lesson includes a brief visual registration at the beginning which requires children to have their webcam switched on and their correct name (the one used on their LLP child profile) displayed on Zoom. If your child would like to join lessons but is anxious about this or needs to have their face covered during lessons for religious or any other reason please get in touch, and we can arrange a password for them to use instead.
• We are now offering some courses as pre recorded lessons in topic blocks on llpextralearningspace.co.uk This then allows you to buy previous lessons in topic packs either for revision purposes or to do a topic yourselves. We recognise that this will have some issues for those that do not wish to be on camera so the new format of the class is that the visual register and any informal discussions happen before and after the lesson itself is recorded. The teachers will all have their settings set to speaker view so that the thumbnail of whoever is speaking will only be highlighted when or if they speak. If you do not want your child to appear in the recording it is your responsibility to ensure the camera is switched off after the visual register unless they have an agreed password then it can remain switched off at all times.