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One more year the Instituto Cervantes has published the new manual to prepare for the CCSE exams.

This new manual has 25% of new questions compared to the CCSE manual of 2022. This new content and questions are those that will be included in all the CCSE tests that are already arranged throughout the next year 2023.

Check all examination dates and firther information regarding the preparation at our website!

1340. Knowing that his besieged Kingdom of Granada is doomed to disappear due to the advance of the neighboring kingdoms, Yusuf I, the Sultan of Granada, embarks on the construction of a building that reflects the splendor of his civilization and defies oblivion: the Alhambra palaces. His vizier, Ibn al-Khatib (Amr Waked), poet and genius ahead of his time, participates in this colossal challenge. But when the sultan's son, Muhammad V, inherits the throne and involves him in the new policies of his reign, the vizier is torn between the ideas of his old world and the emerging new one. His chronicles tell us the history of the Granada of the s. XIV, the swan song of Muslim Europe.

Wednesday, 30.11.2022 / 12.00 h
Hiking tour to Monachil Village
Meeting point: School
Guide: Paco
Price: Each student pays his busticket (approx. 3 €)

This week we will show you a great hike through a carved out river gorge, rocky outcroppings, and olive groves! In the first half of the trail when hiking along the river there are a few points that you have to duck under or carefully tiptoe around but they're not exposed at any point to a big fall or cliff and there are human made handles put into a lot of the spots.

Saturday, 03.12.2022
Daytrip to the Tropical Coast
Meeting point: Congress Palace
Guide: Juan
Price: 55 €*
* the price includes transport, entrance fees and guide

Wednesday, 23.11.2022
17.00-19.30 h
Guided visit to the Arab quarter Albaicín
Guide: Paco
Meeting point: Puerta Elvira
Price: 10,00 €

Thursday, 24.11.2022
14.45-16.15 h
Cooking workshop
Cook: Anabel
Meeting point: Cookingschool CookEle
C/ Molinos, nº 39
Price: 65,00 €

Spanish cooking offers a great resource for creating culture-based contexts for language learning and for developing communicative and intercultural skills. Gastronomy provides an effective, tools of introducing students to a “taste” of authentic culture. Cookele is an affective and dynamic cooking school designed to promote the creativity and collaborative learning by means of the experience of a real-world activity. The school comprises a functional kitchen, a welcoming dining room and a chilling out patio.

Saturday, 26.11.2022
08.45-19.00 h
Guided visit to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan
Meeting point: Congress Palace
Price: 55,00 €

Wednesday, 16.11.2022

17.00-19.30 h
Guided visit to the Arab quarter Albaicín
Guide: Paco
Meeting point: Puerta Elvira
Price: 10,00 €

Saturday, 19.11.2022
07.45-19.00 h
Guided visit to Cordoba
Guide: Juan
Meeting point: Congress Palace
Price: 70,00 €

Home to the largest old town in Spain and the only city in the world to have four Unesco-protected sites, Córdoba is a must-visit for any traveller. Every May, it’s also the setting for the Feria de los Patios, the flower-centred festival celebrated nowhere else in the country. You should visit Córdoba at least once, from its unique historic attractions to an exceptionally varied bar scene and warm, sunny climate.

From 03th to 04th of November 2022 the representatives of language schools in Spain and Germany met at Escuela Montalbán in Granada for their annual meeting.

The following schools from Spain and Germany joined the meeting:

Escuela Montalbán, Granada
Tandem Madrid, Escuela Internacional
Escuela Mediterráneo, Barcelona
Tandem München
Tandem Hamburg
Tandem Köln
Zentrum für deutsche Sprache und Kultur, Frankfurt

One of the characteristics that makes the Spanish-German network Tandem Language Schools unique is its ability to group very diverse schools into a democratic and collaborative partnership. Different countries (Spain, Germany, Chile), two languages and different realities are united through human and solidarity principles to promote their mutual growth, inspiring people to learn, connect, and engage with foreign languages in a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Diversity makes us more human, unity makes us stronger.

The name "TANDEM" and its history are strongly associated with language exchanges as a method of learning. This is why we consider it our sign of identity.

There were several trial studies in the 1960's and 70's. Finally in 1979, Jürguen Wolff developed the procedures for exchanges between German and Spanish students in Madrid. In 1982, Wolff joined forces with a teachers' cooperative in Madrid – it later became TANDEM Madrid.

Throughout the 80's the organization grew through the formation of a horizontal network of partner schools. Each one maintained its individuality, but all of them shared some values and teaching methods. In 1994 this network was consolidated at the TANDEM Fundazioa, based in San Sebastian, Spain. Subsequently, in 2003, TANDEM Fundazioa shifted the focus of its work to universities and NGOs, and the partner schools created TANDEM International for the joint promotion of private language schools.

Tandem Language Schools network is currently comprised of schools in 12 destinations, teaching Spanish and German in 3 countries. We are open to incorporating new schools into our association, as long as they share our values and are able to pass a strict selection process, to ensure that they meet high quality standards and are permanently committed to people in the first place. Our network aims for more than to just develop the highest quality teaching standards. Our mission of inspiring people to learn, connect, and engage with foreign languages in once in a lifetime experience means a strong commitment to responsible social values, promoting cross-cultural awareness, and fostering understanding among students, staff, and the community.

Monday, 07.11.2022 /17.00-19.30 h
Guided visit to the Arab quarter Albaicín
Guide: Paco
Price: 10 €*
Meeting point: Puerta Elvira

Thursday, 10.11.2022 /14.00-16.00 h
International Lunch at the school
Each student brings typical food from his home country!!

Saturday, 12.11.2022/ 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan
Price: 55 €*
Meeting point: Congress Palace
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting and insurance

Granada is the privileged environment in which the most anticipated concerts of one of the longest-running, award-winning and respected jazz festivals in Europe take place: the Granada International Jazz Festival. Since that first edition in 1980, the Granada International Jazz Festival has spent forty years uninterruptedly welcoming the excellence of jazz history: Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Haden, Art Blakey, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bebo and Chucho Valdés, Ron Carter, Eliane Elias, Robert Glasper, among an endless list of musicians with whom he has managed to create very intense and rewarding emotional bonds.

Fans who travel from many parts of Spain and Europe come to this event to enjoy extraordinary concerts in the beautiful and emblematic Teatro Isabel la Católica and throughout the city with Jazz in parallel with more than 80 concerts and activities, generating an exciting jazz atmosphere. The Granada International Jazz Festival, in the fall, is a must.

Monday, 24.10.2022 / 17.30 - 19.00 hh
Guided visit to an Arab tea shop
Guide: Teacher from the school
Price: each students pays his consumption
Meeting point: School

There is a narrow pedestrian street in Granada which seems to have been dedicated exclusively to Arab teahouses (tea shops) and shops. It is Calderería Nueva in the Albaycín. Calle Elvira is another area of ​​teahouses and tapas bars. There also some near the Bañuelo (Carrera del Darro).

Most teahouses in Granada (teteria in Spanish) serve Arabic and other more exotic teas. There are also a few creperies, kebab bars, some natural product stores, several Moorish craft shops and street stalls.

Friday, 28.10.2022 / 20.00 h
Flamenco at the Jardines de Zoraya
Guide: NO
Price: 25 €*
Meeting point: C/ Panaderos, nº 32
* optional dinner at the restaurant

Saturday, 29.10.2022 / 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan
Price: 55 €*
Meeting point: Congress Palace
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting and insurance

RESERVATION AT THE OFFICE:

Hammam Al-Andalus
C/ Santa Ana, nº 16 - 18009 Granada
For more than eight centuries of Muslim customs the Arab baths have been part of the culture in Granada. Price: 55 € (90 minutes; includes 15 minutes massage)