Intermediate Spanish: Spanish for Education and Work

Advance your career and personal aspirations in the Worlds of Spanish

On this four-week course, you’ll investigate some of the differences between the educational systems in Spain and Latin America and learn how to talk about your own educational background with the use of past tenses.

You’ll explore the strong connection between education and employment by looking at the role of education, and particularly languages, in the job market.

Discover job and work experience opportunities using the Spanish language

You’ll find out about exchange scholarships, volunteering programmes, internships, and job opportunities, to help you determine whether you would like to pursue practising and developing your language skills in Spanish.

Then, this course will guide you through how to communicate effectively in professional and educational environments and will help you demonstrate skills such as how to express obligation, give instructions, and offer advice.

Make dreams of living in Spain or Latin America a reality

You’ll learn how to showcase your professional experience and talk about your skills in Spanish, discovering new structures and useful expressions to help you identify your employability skills and describe them. This will help you in interview and networking scenarios and could be the key to pursuing a new career in Spain and Latin America.

You will research different job and volunteering opportunities available online and choose one you are interested in.

By the end of the course, you will be able to put everything you have learnt into practice in order to apply for a position.

This course is designed for those with a good basic knowledge of Spanish (fully at Level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference), who would like to improve their competence in the language and deepen their understanding of different cultures

• The world of education
• Welcome to ‘Spanish for Education and Work’
• Education and the right to learn
• Educational background
• Numbers over 100
• Summary of the week
• Educational programmes
• Welcome to Week 2
• Servicio social
• Requesting information and responding
• Working abroad
• Summary of the week
• Ethnographies of work
• Welcome to Week 3
• El medio laboral
• Employability skills
• Trabajo y educación
• Summary of the week
• Finding and applying for opportunities
• Welcome to Week 4
• Applying for jobs
• ¿Cómo prepararse para una entrevista de trabajo?
• Job interviews
• Summary of the week