Summer Course in England

Coming next for our CAA team are the 2 week summer courses in England. Yuri, our Director in Vila Real and wife, Helen,a Senior Teacher in Vila Real will be taking a large group of students from both our schools in Chaves and Vila Real to London, Cambridge and Riddlesworth next Sunday,11 July.















This time, their younger son, Jason, will be going along for his first visit to England.

DELTA Course at International House, Barcelona

Time is near. Zayra will be leaving for Barcelona this Saturday, 3 July for her DELTA course starting on Monday, 5 July. She will be there for 2 whole months. A very intensive course.

"About the Diploma (DELTA Course)
The Cambridge Diploma (DELTA) is the most prestigious and widely recognised British qualification in English Language Teaching. It is intended for candidates who have substantial experience of teaching English either in the UK or abroad.

A number of UK universities are now offering credits and/or exemptions on their MA and other courses for those who have obtained their DELTA." (IH Barcelona)

Good luck, Zayra.

Young Learners Exam

Today a large group of Young Learners prepared at CAA-Vila Real will be taking the University of Cambridge Young Learners Exam at the British Council in Porto. Good luck to all of them. We wish them success.

The CAA team.

Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago dies

+ 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010

We at CAA would like to join all literature lovers and José Saramago's admirers to mourn the death of this great Portuguese writer.

José Saramago is the only author writing in Portuguese to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He was awarded this prize in 1998.

Saramago was born in Azinhaga, near Lisbon, in 1922, but lived on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, from 1992 until his death in 2010 with his second wife, the journalist Pilar del Rio.

He is survived by his first wife,Ilda Reis, his daughter Violante, his second wife, Pilar del Rio and 2 grandchildren.

RIP Saramago.