Chester School of English opened in 1986 in the Barrio de Salamanca, the most select residential and commercial area in Madrid. The school has two centres, both within a ten-minute walk of each other. The school offers a wide range of classes to children and adults. Apart from the courses organised here in Madrid, Chester offers courses to its students in the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada. At any one time in Chester there are approximately one thousand students attending courses.

This coupled with our facilities and resources combine to enable us to offer trainees an excellent grounding in teaching.

The Cambridge ESOL CELTA is an initial qualification for people with little or no previous teaching experience or teachers who do have some experience but no training & need a solid grounding.

It is one of the most widely taken qualifications of its kind with over 10,000 people each year taking a CELTA course that opens up a whole world of exciting English language teaching opportunities.

Chester offers the CELTA course as a four-week intensive course.

The aims of the CELTA course are to help trainees learn the principles of effective teaching, gain a range of practical skills for teaching English to adult learners & get valuable hands-on teaching experience.

Topic areas include:

Topic 1 - Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context
Topic 2 - Language analysis and awareness
Topic 3 - Language skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing
Topic 4 - Planning and resources for different teaching contexts
Topic 5 - Developing teaching skills and professionalism