E.I. offers 18 different Spanish courses from our basic Principal Course to our Superior Spanish course, exam preparation courses, Spanish + Latin Dance or we can customize a course to fit your group’s needs.   Each course can fall into one of three different categories: open courses (your students mix with the rest of our international students, each student studying at his or her own level), closed courses (your students study together and do not mix with the other international students) or a combination of the two (open courses with other international students + an additional classes for just your students). Please see the list of courses and their descriptions on our website or request more information or a syllabus about a particular course from our group coordinator. 

Classes are held Monday through Friday in the morning throughout the year. Classes are sometimes held in the afternoon in the summer months. Courses can include from 10 to 30+ lessons per week.  Each lesson lasts 55 minutes.  A typical schedule on the first day of class would be the following:

08:00-09:00	09:00-10:40	10:40-11:00	11:00-12:40	12:40-17:00	17:00-19:00	19:00
Placement Test	Grammar and Vocabulary	Morning break	Conversation and Composition	Lunch break and free time	Orientation and Tour of the City	Welcome Party

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Accommodations are always arranged from the Sunday before the course begins until the Saturday after the course ends unless specified otherwise.  Extra days can be arranged when necessary.

Students – For student groups we offer accommodations in host families with the option of a single or double room and full or half board.  Host family accommodations include room (single/double), board (full/half), laundry service, bed linens, and the student can receive phone calls. The families live close to the school, a maximum of 20 minutes walking.

Depending on the time of year and availability we may be able to provide accommodations in student apartments.  Please contact us for availability and details.  If the students will be absent for a meal included in their program, they can request a sack lunch advising the host family at least one day ahead of time.

Accompanying Professors – With groups of up to 19 students we will provide free accommodations in a host family, individual room and full board, for one accompanying professor and with groups of 20 or more we will provide free accommodations for two accompanying professors.  Depending on the time of year and availability we may be able to provide one entire apartment to the accompanying professor/s.  Please contact us for availability and details.

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Escuela Internacional can provide transportation to almost any point in Spain.  In addition to picking your group up and dropping your group off at the airport, bus or train station we can also arrange private transportation for one-day excursions, weekend excursions or multiple day trips through Spain. 

Specifically for the arrival transportation service, a representative from E.I. will meet the group at the airport/bus or train station with a private bus.  The representative will give a short orientation and pass out arrival/orientation folders.  Upon arriving to the chosen city, the families will be waiting to accompany the students to their homes.

We also offer a transportation service for students arriving on their own as well as instructions on how to arrive to our schools using public transportation.

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Students coming from those countries within the European Union that have a reciprocal agreement with Spain, and who are covered by Social Security within their own country, will be entitled to free medical treatment within Spain.  In order to receive free treatment the student must bring their European Social Security Card. 

For those students coming from countries outside of the European Union we recommend that they obtain medical insurance in their own country or request the E.I. medical insurance.  The E.I. private policy covers all types of medical care, including hospitalization, surgical treatment and individual accidents.  It does not include medicine prescribed outside a hospital or dental treatment.  The price of this medical insurance is per natural month, from the 1^st until the 30^th/31^st.  If you will be attending from mid-month to mid-month, you will have to pay for 2 months of insurance. 

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Every year Escuela Internacional organizes a Cultural Activity Calendar.  Upon request we can provide you with a copy of our Calendar for the month and the city that you are planning to attend. You can see this years calendar at http://www.escuelai.com/ficheros/actyexc/actyexc.htm

E.I. Cultural Activity Calendar:
E.I.’s cultural activity calendar helps students to discover and experience the diversity of the cities where our Centers are located. The activities are the perfect complement to the course, because it gives students the chance to practice their new language skills in real life situations. It is the best way for them to get to know their classmates, the country they are visiting and its culture.

The cultural activities are held in the afternoon, three to four days a week and can be included in the course price or the students can pay the center directly for each activity that they choose to attend.

Customized Activities:
Some groups like to supplement our EI cultural activities calendar with activities that might not be planned during their stay such as: afternoon visits to local monuments, Flamenco Dance/Music Presentation, Cooking Class, afternoon visits to nearby towns of interest, culture class on a specific topic, guided visit to local parades/functions/festivities and more…

If you would like to plan an activity that isn’t included in our general activity calendar, please contact us for more information.

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Every year Escuela Internacional organizes an Excursion Calendar.  Upon request we can provide you with a copy of our Calendar for the month and the city that you are planning to attend. You can see this years calendar at http://www.escuelai.com/ficheros/actyexc/actyexc.htm

E.I. Excursion Calendar:
Every weekend Escuela Internacional organizes a full day excursion that is normally held on Saturday.  Participation is open to all students at E.I.  The price includes a guide for the day, entrance fees to the sights planned and transportation.  Students that live in host families can request a sack lunch to take on the excursion.  The EI excursion calendar can be included in the course price or the students can pay the center directly for each excursion that they choose to participate in. Typical destinations at each of our centers include: 

Malaga	Alcalá de Henares	Salamanca
Granada	Madrid	Avila/Segovia/La Granja
Cordoba	Segovia/Avila o Segovia/La Granja	Toledo
Sevilla	Toledo	Burgos
Nerja	El Escorial and the Valley of the Fallen	El Escorial and the Valley of the Fallen
Rhonda	Aranjuez	Leon/Astorga

Customized/Private Group Excursions:
Sometimes groups would prefer to visit destinations that are not planned in the EI excursion calendar during the time that the group will be here, or that require more than one day to visit.  In these cases we can arrange private group excursions that include: public transportation or private transportation, local guide or EI professor, hotels or hostals and more… 

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Escuela Internacional can arrange long and short trips throughout Spain at the start or end of the Spanish program. Typical trips range from 4 to 8 days.  Some possible trips might be: 3 days in Madrid; 3 days in Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, El Tajo); 8 days in Andalucia and Madrid (Granada, Cordoba, Granada, Madrid); 4 days in Alicante and Barcelona.  Please provide us your preliminary plan, dates and destinations and we will provide you with a price quote and any suggestions that we may have.

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