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Organizing a trip to Spain with your pupils will make you more prestigious, make your teaching more prestigious and your academic staff too.
In Mester we like to enjoy with every group and this is the way to remember them!
Learn Spanish with a movie with Spanish subtitles!
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Quick guide for learning how to taste wines 2
Friday, February 25th, 20111. Examine its appearance
Examine wine
To get an idea of the colour and other visual aspects of the wine it is best to use a white background (e.g. plate or tablecloth) and hold the glass of wine in front of it.
Brighter and more brilliant colours indicate that these are young wines. The darker the colours, the more aged the wines are.
2. Appreciate its aroma
Apreciate Aroma
Swirl the glass of wine to release the components that make up a wine’s aroma. Fruity and floral aromas are typical for young wines. More spicy (e.g. cinnamon), balsamic (e.g. peppermint) and woody aromas are indicators of aged wines.
3. Enjoy the taste
Taste the wine
A little taste is enough to enjoy the different flavours. Sweetness is tasted on the tip of your tongue, acidity at the sides of the tongue and the inside of your cheeks, salty on either sites of the front of your tongue and bitterness in the central of your tongue.
Common terms that are used to describe the wine are the following:
• Fruity
• Velvety
• Warm
• Astringent
• Mild
• Light, medium or full body
• Fresh
• Persistent
• Short or long finish
• Dry
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WINE: |
White wine |
Rose wine |
Red wine |
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SHADES OF COLOURS OF YOUNG WINE TO WINE WITH AGE: |
Straw Bellow |
Pale Pink |
Ruby |
Students of Spanish, churros & courses
Saturday, November 13th, 2010Every Tuesday our Spanish school offers the most typical Spanish breakfast which is called “chocolate con churros” to it’s students.
Churros are made with oil, water, butter, salt, flour, eggs and sugar. You have to eat them as soon as they are made while they are still warm. The best way is dipping them into the hot, thick dark chocolate for enjoying the best taste ever…
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Paz versus Natalia... Who wins?
Usually, everyone loves churros no matter which age the persons are.
Old people enjoy them at churros bars in the morning for breakfast as young people in the morning on their way home after party. This is a very good way of communication…
Find more pictures about the churros in our Spanish school in our flickr album of the courses!
Salamanca welcomes another group trip from San Diego California!
Friday, June 25th, 2010This week Mester Salamanca has been playing host to yet another successful group trip from San Diego, California, led by teacher Smokey.
Smokey's group in Mester
Seventeen students from Coronodo High School, situated on Coronado Island, have made the trip across the Atlantic to boost their Spanish and immerse themselves in a new culture. And this immersion in culture is complete: All living with families, the students are in class for the morning, after having a Spanish breakfast with their host family, return from the school to have lunch with the family – the biggest, most important meal of the day in Spain – and, after an afternoon of activities, return home to have dinner and discuss their day, a great way to practise Spanish and gain insight into how other cultures live.
Enjoying the Segovia excursion!
Leading his seventh visit to Salamanca since 1995, Smokey has taken his class, along with other teacher Megan, on several excursions during this year’s visit, one of the most memorable surely being that of the trip to San Martín del Castañar, a small salmantino village. Surrounded by stunning scenery, and with excellent weather, the students took the opportunity to swim in the pools, relax and catch some sun on the riverbank, ideal preparation for the more active excursion sight-seeing round the two neighbouring cities of Avila and Segovia.
Enjoying the sun in Avila
In these historic cities, both favourites of groups learning Spanish in Spain, the students really took advantage: taking photos, enjoying the typical Spanish food and exploring the famous monuments. Whilst Avila is a small, beautifully kept, walled city approximately an hour from Salamanca, Segovia is larger, with a gigantic aqua-duct dominating the city centre, two brilliant photo opportunities which the students eagerly embraced (see the results in our Facebook album!).
Choosing an ideal time to visit Spain, the students have also been able to enjoy a few of the World Cup fixtures – getting an idea of the passion with which the people of Spain follow their national team! And not only this, during the afternoons they’ve had a whole host of activities to choose from: dance classes, cookery classes, language exchanges, film nights…Plenty to keep even the most demanding of students entertained!
Supporting "La Roja"!
Group trips are a wonderful way to better your foreign language skills, have fun and enjoy a break from the routine. With an activity programme as full as Mester’s, we strive to relieve the pressure on the teachers to fill days, organise trips and ensure their class is entertained 24/7. Working together with schools and colleges to cater to specific requests, Mester offers trips which are an effective way of not only improving the Spanish level of a class, but are perfect for giving students enthusiasm for the subject too.
Should you be interested in a group trip to Mester, don’t hesitate in contacting us through the school’s website.
Learning week videos – from Salamanca!
Thursday, May 13th, 2010A couple of our regulars to the Spanish school in Salamanca have made a couple of videos all about the language learning experience here!
Marcello and Angelo are from Italy and regularly bring over groups of students from their university to learn about tourism in Spain, as well as the necessary Spanish! Their trips always include visits to local hotels, as well as talks from people very relevant in the industry. They were nice enough to take some film footage of their experience here, including the beautiful architecture of Salamanca (the golden stones, the Plaza Mayor, the Casa de las Conchas, the University buildings, the Roman Bridge, the cathedrals…the list is endless!), the Mester Spanish school (great for if you’re interested in a course here!), the hotels (where the students learnt about the tourism industry and business in Spain) and the other excursions they did (the museum in Alberca for example!).
The group trips from university are always a great success at Mester – the students have varied days, meaning they’re always entertained and learning new things, with something to look forward to the next day! We design the programmes working alongside the course supervisors of the university to ensure it is completely apt and appropriate to what they are studying.
As well as giving them the chance to learn about the certain relevant aspects of Spanish culture (business, work, travel…) and the specialist vocabulary, they see people in careers which they might possibly think of for themselves in the future – a first hand experience of career guidance! This opportunity helps students to focus on their future, giving them real motivation for when they are back at home studying. It also stimulates their imagination, prompting them to consider jobs they may not have thought of before.
It’s also a great bonding experience for the group and will certainly be a highlight of their university course, as well as a chance for them to meet friends and make contacts from all over the world – taking part in the activity programme of the school, exploring the city, going on excursions, talking to locals… The activity programme organised by the school, as well as the cultural events in Salamanca, help this bonding process – there really is choice for everyone! From cookery classes to guitar lessons to excursions to other cities to typical Spanish meals, film nights, art conferences, history talks, sports competitions and tapas tours throughout the city, the students don’t have a second to be bored in! Whats-more, all this interaction and social activity boosts the Spanish learnt in the classroom no end and helps the students become capable of using their Spanish in a social environment, a very important aspect in becoming fluent and comfortable with a language.
Should you be interested in a group trip to learn Spanish in Spain, don’t hesitate in contacting us – we’ll coordinate with you and tailor the course to meet your needs. Also – don’t forget to add us as a friend on Mester to keep up with all the news, see the photos and videos and make contacts!
