Introducing some of our youngest students...

• My name is Adrian and I am eight years old. My favourite animal is the penguin and my favourite colour is red. I like football and my favourite team is Real Madrid!
• My name is Beatriz and I am seven years old. My favourite sport is tennis and my favourite food is pizza. My favourite colour is purple and I love to draw pictures!
• My name is Eloy and I am eight years old. My favourite sport is swimming and my favourite animals are dolphins. I love trains!
• My name is Nico and I am seven years old. My favourite animal is the wolf and my favourite colour is black. I love to play football with my friends!
• My name is Samuel and I am eight years old.  My favourite animal is the dog and my favourite sport is tennis. I love to learn and speak English!
• My name is Marco and I am eight years old. My favourite colour is green and my favourite food is ham. I love snakes!
• My name is Yaiza and I am eight years old. My favourite food is pizza and my favourite drink is water. I like football and my favourite colour is red!

Why I like to study English at the English Centre

Why I like to study English at the English Centre

by students in class level B1+

´´I study English because I think that it will help me with my future career and because I´ll be able to speak to people more confidently when I visit the United Kingdom. Our lessons at the English Centre are a lot more imaginative than in my school and they are taught at a higher level too.´´ 

Cristina Navarro Moro

´´I think that learning English will be good for my future prospects. We do many different activities in our English classes here, including computer-based exercises, listening to classic songs and speaking practice on a wide variety of topics. The teachers encourage us to enjoy learning, which I think is very important.´´ 

Pablo Garcia Nicieza

´´In my opinion, English will help me in the future, for example if I want to find a good job. The English Centre provides a fun way to learn a new language and the teachers are all native speakers from the U.K, which really helps us with our pronunciation. I would definitely recommend this academy to my friends.´´

Raquel Nuño Merzinger

 Welcome to Gijón !

It was the first day of October 2011 and, as the sun set on a warm Saturday evening, I received an unexpected phone call as I was walking up a steep hill road to Premier de Dalt, a small town situated just twenty minutes east of Barcelona. A man by the name of Jeremy was calling to see if I was interested in working for him in a town in the north of Spain called Gijón. I had never heard of this town before, so I did some research online the next day and gave the director of the English Centre a call back and accepted his job offer!

I met my good friend Uri that Sunday evening and we had a final drink before I got ready to pack my suitcase ahead of  an exciting new adventure in Asturias. Coincidentally, his beloved Barcelona F.C were playing Sporting de Gijón that night! I went to bed ahead of the longest commute to work of my life on Monday 3^rd October: it involved waking up at 7am and taking a train to Barcelona, taking another train to the airport, flying to Asturias and, finally, getting on a bus to Gijón! I arrived in this unfamiliar town at 3pm, checked into my hotel, had a quick rest and started to teach at the English Centre at 4pm...it was certainly a day to remember!

That Monday marked an unforgettable start to what has been an extremely enjoyable and rewarding time in a wonderful town which will always have a place in my heart.....Gijón!

WELCOME!

Welcome to the exciting new English Centre blog!

 

This is an interactive website for teachers, students and parents, as well as anyone interested in this academy, to keep –up-to-date on what´s happening here. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the blog with articles and opinions. During the next few months I will ask some of my students, as well as those of Jeremy (the school´s Director) and Joe (our senior teacher), to write in this blog. In this way we hope to showcase the abilities of students from all ages, studying at all levels. Parents are also encouraged to contribute, as well as use the website to practise their own English.

 

To begin with, I have asked three of my students (studying at level B1+) to write about why they enjoy studying here at the English Centre. However, before you read their views about the academy, I thought that I would ´kick off´ this blog with an article about how I ended up teaching English in a town which I had never heard of prior to last October: Gijón!

 

We hope that you enjoy this site!

 

Richard Das

(Teacher, English Centre)