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The maximum length of each story is 140 characters, including spaces - like a tweet.  Submitted micro fiction has to be written in Spanish.
Our teacher team will choose the two best summertweets.  The winners will receive a free Spanish course at our school.

The contest starts on Monday, 01.07.2013 and finishes on Friday, 30.08.2013.

1st Prize:  a 2 weeks Spanish Standard course (20 lessons per week)
2nd Prize: a 1 week Spanish Standard course (20 lessons per week)
The winners can book the Spanish course during next year 2014.

Conditions:
- send your micro story to summertweet@escuela-montalban.com.
 - post your micro story on Twitter, mentioning @EsMONTALBAN with the hashtag  #summertweetcontest.
- our teacher team will choose the two best summertweets  among all those that have been sent.
- the winners will be notified by email or by private message in Twitter (you must be a follower of Escuela Montalbán).
- the participants allow the school to publish their summertweet on the Escuela Montalbán website and on the school social networks. The school will publish the micro stories with the name and country of the participants. The school will not use this information for any purpose other than the contest.
- Escuela Montalbán will not receive any economic  benefits from the texts and will not distribute or sell the texts or personal information to third parties.
- only one micro story per participant will be accepted.

Escuela Montalbán will not accept micro stories containing racist, sexist or discriminatory connotations or infringing the rights of third parties, stories containing advertising or which can be considerated spam. Moreover, the school may correct grammatical mistakes before publishing the micro story.
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¡Queremos que nos  enviéis un microrrelato en español de un máximo  de  140 caracteres (con espacios) sobre el tema VERANO!
Nuestros profesores se encargarán de seleccionar los dos summertweets  más originales. Los ganadores obtendrán un curso gratuito en nuestra escuela.

El concurso comienza el lunes 01.07.2013 y finaliza el viernes 30.08.2013

1ª premio: un curso Standard (20 clases a la semana) de 2 semanas
2ª premio: un curso Standard (20 clases a la semana) de 1 semana
Los ganadores podrán reservar su curso de español a lo largo del año 2014.

Condiciones:
- enviar el microrrelato a summertweet@escuela-montalban.com.
- publicar el microrrelato en Twitter, con la mención de @EsMONTALBAN y poniendo el hashtag #summertweetcontest.
- nuestro equipo de profesores seleccionará los dos microrrelatos más originales.
- se informará a los ganadores por e-mail o por mensaje privado en Twitter (siempre que se trate de un follower del Twitter oficial de la Escuela).
- los datos personales de contacto no se utilizarán para otro propósito distinto al del concurso.
- los participantes consienten que su relato, nombre y país de origen aparezcan en la página web y en las redes sociales de la escuela.
- la escuela no obtendrá ningún beneficio económico con el concurso y no distribuirá los relatos a terceros.
- solamente se aceptará un microrrelato por autor.

Escuela Montalbán no admitirá a concurso aquellos microrrelatos que contengan connotaciones racistas, sexistas o discriminatorias o que puedan atentar contra los derechos de terceros, ni aquellos que contengan publicidad o se puedan considerar spam. Asimismo, la escuela podrá corregir aquellos errores gramaticales que considere oportunos antes de publicar el microrrelato.

From 09.00 to 12.15 hrs students participated in Spanish grammar and conversation lessons on the level groups A2 / B1. The daily cultural programme was organized by the Austrian teachers themselves. They mainly visited the Alhambra and several performances of the International Festival of Music and Dance.

Their programme consisted in a Spanish course in the morning. Theses Spanish lessons were complemented by the following cultural activities during the afternoons:

- Experienced students and beginners had a horseback riding afternoon in Sierra Nevada National Park.
- In a cooking session at the Javier Vilchez cooking school students learned to prepare a Paella.
- In a Flamenco workshop they practiced the first steps of Flamenco dancing.
- A guided visit to the Alhambra with our guide Juan and a afternoon at Nerja beach closed the cultural programme.



We hope that you will have a nice trip back home ... and see you next year!

We have still place in our courses and accommodations for May and June!

This offer applies to a Standard Spanish Courses (4 lessons of 45 minutes per day from Monday to Friday) with accommodation in a DOUBLE ROOM in a shared flat with other students from the school (use of kitchen facilities). The accommodation is reserved from Sunday to Saturday.

Starting dates for all levels during May and June 2013:
20.05/27.05*/03.06/10.06*/17.06/24.06*
* absolute beginners only start on these dates.

Enrol through our website and indicate in the field "Notes" (at the end of the registration form) that you are applying for the May/June 2013 discount!

Learn Spanish at Escuela Montalbán and travel to Morocco! Here are some images from our last trip in Abril:









For further information visit: www.studytravel-spain.com

A one-week Spanish course with 4 Spanish lessons of 45 minutes per day is complemented by the following guided visits: Granada city centre, Cathedral, arabic quarter Albaicín, gypsy quarter Sacromonte, Alhambra and "Carmen de los Mártires". And last not least they will spend one free afternoon in Salobreña to relax on the beach.

We remind you that the D.E.L.E. exam is the most important recognition of the Spanish knowledge on an international level.

The exams will take place on the 24.05.2013 and include these parts:

• Written comprehension
• Written expression
• Oral comprehension
• Grammar and vocabulary
• Oral expression

... and you can be examined in all the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference:

A1 - Breakthrough or beginner
A2 - Waystage or elementary
B1 - Threshold or intermediate
B2 - Vantage or upper intermediate
C1 - Effective Operational Proficiency or advanced
C2 - Mastery or proficiency

Our school is the D.E.L.E. exam centre in Granada and it offers courses leading to these exams. If you want to register into the D.E.L.E. exam, please click here: www.dele.fedele.org/montalban

This event was organized in collaboration with the Spanish editorial Edinumen.
The main topic of the workshop session was: “El uso de la imagen en la clase ELE”.

Students from Ratcliffe College in Leicester (UK) and from the Bundesgymnasium Lustenau in Austria are going to participate in a Spanish course combined with cultural activities such us tapa tours, guided visits to Alhambra and Albaicín, Flamenco at the Sacromonte, a Flamenco workshop at the school, cooking classes and a guided day trip to Seville.

We hope, that they all enjoy the Spanish lessons and the cultural activities!

Our teacher training course fulfills the requirements for a COMENIUS-GRUNDTVIG grant. The main objective of this Spanish course “Curso práctico de 1 y 2 semanas - perfeccionamiento y reciclaje para profesores NO-NATIVOS de español como lengua extranjera - Niveles C1/C2” is to offer non-native Spanish teachers the opportunity to update and perfect their knowledge of the Spanish language and to exchange experiences regarding methodological and pedagogical issues.

For further information regarding dates & prices visit:
http://www.escuela-montalban.com/en/courses/group_course.php