Instructor: Monica Gallup

Biography: Monica is a certified teacher and has been teaching Spanish since 2013. She was born in Santiago, Chile and has had the good fortune to study and teach abroad in Germany, New Zealand and now in the United States. She believes that by working with many different cultures, she's been able to reach students in an effective and passionate manner. She likes to make her students feel comfortable in the classroom and loves to see them having fun while learning. She incorporates a variety of activities in her teaching as well having students practice the four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) in the language.

Classes by this instructor

COSSI Group E Language Lab: Advanced High-Superior

This blended level course is for the most advanced students and will include concepts from levels advanced high and superior to create a robust and challenging course. Students must have a minimum of three years of college level Spanish or the equivalent in Spanish speaking experience. This course will review the contrasts between the preterit and imperfect tenses and the uses of the present subjunctive mood. Additional concepts will include an introduction to the imperfect subjunctive mood and its uses and the conditional tense and its uses. Grammatical structures and vocabulary will be highlighted through literary selections, business terminology, and idiomatic expressions, proverbs, synonyms, and antonyms. Other topics include: the pronoun "se," complex sentences and new literary vocabulary, recognition of the different accents of the Spanish-speaking world, and how to improve one's own Spanish accent. Group E will be taught using 70%-90% comprehensible Spanish at this level.
June 23-26, 2025 | 8:30am-5:00pm PDT | Redmond