Course Description: COSSI Group C (Levels 5 & 6): Intermediate Mid-Intermediate High

This blended level course is designed to continue building grammatical structures that focus on speaking, reading, writing, and understanding. Topics include a review of the present tense and a comparison of the present and present progressive tenses. Students will review the preterite and imperfect tenses, compare and contrast the preterite and imperfect tenses, and be introduced to additional uses in more complex sentences. New vocabulary and grammatical structures will be presented and developed in conversational and written contexts. It will introduce and expand the uses of the present subjunctive tense and formal commands. Vocabulary development and communication strategies will be emphasized. Recommended for those who have a command of the present tense and a working knowledge of the past and future tenses; or one to two years of study at the college level.

Course Resources
COSSI Workbooks
COSSI Weekly Planner

Course Details: (seats remaining)

Schedule:

Every day, starting on 06/24/24 and ending on 06/27/24

Times:

09:00am-04:00pm

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Price:

Class Price : $699.00

Subsessions/Add-Ons:

*Must choose a Conversation Group.

Beginning Conversation Group

Every day, starting on 06/24/24 and ending on 06/27/24

Beginning Conversation Group

Intermediate Conversation Group

Every day, starting on 06/24/24 and ending on 06/27/24

Intermediate Conversation Group

Advanced Conversation Group

Every day, starting on 06/24/24 and ending on 06/27/24

Advanced Conversation Group

Additional Course Information

Refund Policy: A full refund will be issued to COSSI students who cancel by 5:00pm on June 10, 2024.
A partial refund of $300 will be issued for those canceling between 5:01pm on June 10 to 5:00pm on June 17, 2024.
- No refunds for those canceling after 5:00pm on June 17, 2024.

Instructors

Name

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Skip Crosby

Biography: Skip Crosby has been teaching Spanish in Maine public high schools for 35 years. Skip gained proficiency in the Spanish language during a two-year stay in Colombia after college. While in Colombia, he earned a Diploma de Espa�ol como Lengua Extranjera from the Javeriana University in Bogot�, Colombia in 1989.

In 1998, he earned a Master's Degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont. He has taught as an adjunct at the college level for a total of fourteen years. He also teaches high school Spanish online. Skip has coached and taught at national conferences and colleges across the country.

In 2014, Skip was named Maine Foreign Language Teacher of the year, Northeast Conference on the teaching of Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Finalist, Androscoggin County Teacher of the year and in 2015 was the Maine Teacher of the Year, Finalist. He was also the 2015 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Teacher of the Year Finalist. Skip earned National Board Certification (NBCT) in 2018. In 2021 Skip was recognized with the Richard Williamson Award for Leadership in World Languages by the Foreign Language Association of Maine (FLAME).

For the past six years, Skip has taken groups of students to Guatemala City to work with Safe Passage, an organization dedicated to helping the families working in the Guatemala City dump with education, food and medical care.

Skip lives in Poland, Maine with Beth, his wife of 31 years, Lexi, the 9.25 pound Mini Dachshund and Neil his 14 year old Doxie "brother." Gabe, their 23 year old son, is a 6th grade ELA teacher.

Facility Detail

COCC Redmond Technology Education Center

RTEC134

2030 SE College Loop

Redmond, OR 97756

Cancellation Policy

Students must cancel by contacting our office via phone: (541) 383-7270 or email: ceinfo@cocc.edu. Cancellations received 5 days prior to the start of the class will receive a full refund. Full refunds are also issued for classes cancelled by COCC. Refunds will be issued back to your card or in the form of a check and mailed within two weeks of the cancellation date if paid by check or cash. Failure to participate in a course or program does not result in a refund. Exceptions to the general refund policy are noted in the course descriptions on our website and in the printed schedule. If you have any questions, please call us at (541) 383-7270.

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