The Opportunity English company organizes the First National English Spelling Championship

The company Opportunity English going to organize a National English spelling championship. He wants to do the March 21, 2015 in the Albacete municipality of Villarrobledo. The championship will be held for the first time in Spain and all young students can participate Young Learners (Starters, Movers and Flyers) of the Language Schools. There will be three rounds and a winner who can get a trip to London for him and his family. All parents with their children are invited to participate in this initiative, and that, throughout the day, in addition to the competition, attendees can carry out educational workshops, musical activities and much more and all in English.

The objective of this championship is boost bilingualism through children's desire to compete, learn and improve through the correct use and spelling of English words that will also be adapted to their level. Opportunity English It is a company based in Villarrobledo and has been chosen as a finalist among the more than 35,000 Cambridge Exam Preparation Centers worldwide. They have also been nominated by Cambridge English Language Assessment Awards in the category of Best Teacher Support (Better teacher support). We congratulate Opportunity for this recognition of its work and its commitment to the dissemination and administration of the Cambridge English exams.

And regarding the contest, it seems to me that it can be a magnificent idea and to whom I wish him the best. Some time ago I wrote in Peques and Más about the spelling bee contest, which is very important in the United States, and which in Spain also has a long way to go.

In Peques and Más we have talked about spelling, Carmen Pascual González-Babe did that they use in language classes, spelling appropriate words at each level, guessing them. With these types of activities, Carmen explained, we work on mental agility, he vocabulary and the orthography.