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Callan Barcelona les informa, que los exámenes de los Cursos Intensivos de Verano – Septiembre 2014, tendrán lugar el martes 30 de Septiembre en el Hotel Balmoral, en los horarios habituales de clase. Las notas le serán remitidas por correo electrónico. Si desea revisar su examen podrá hacerlo el próximo 1 de Octubre de 10,00 …

Yet is our understanding of her intent seriously handicapped by her incorrect use of the verb ‘to be’? Most people would still grasp the intention – to enquire as to our whereabouts on the previous day. This is not to say she should not sometimes be gently corrected, but to criticise her would be an …

With all this in mind, the aim of this blog entry is to introduce another facet of the subject: different accents. Thanks to different accents found throughout the English-speaking world, the pronunciation of certain words changes radically. For example, let’s look at the practice of intervocalic alveolar flapping, or simply, ‘flapping.’ It’s a phonological process …

  Les informamos que la escuela permanecerá cerrada del 1 al 24 de Agosto de 2014 We hope all our students enjoy a happy and relaxing summer holiday. We will be back on the 25th of August.  The Callan Team.   

When you receive your exam paper, use the first two minutes of the exam to look at the exam paper from the first page to the last page. Compositions are not guaranteed to be part of the paper but if one is requested in the exam paper, then make sure you leave enough time to …

  Las notas le serán remitidas por correo electrónico en los dos días siguientes. Si desea revisar su examen podrá hacerlo el jueves 31 de Julio o el lunes, 25 de Agosto de 10,00 a 19,00 h. En el caso de que no supere el examen, se realizará una prueba de recuperación el día 26 de Agosto, en el …

When starting at Callan School, many students are often too shy to speak for fear of making mistakes in pronouncing a word /words correctly. Making mistakes is a natural part of any learning process and only by making mistakes do we learn from them. Every student, in every class, in every level, makes mistakes and …