Foreign languages in IES Roquetes are taught is a special way that is not common among other secondary schools. Languages are a subject where the classes are "desdoblades", this means that out of the three normal hours of class during the school week one of those hours is split so that the teacher only teaches half of the class. These split hours are shared with other subject areas in the school, such as technology, and give the teacher the chance to work more closely with the students.
In addition we also have an exceptional language lab, perhaps the best equipped in the whole of Catalunya, with a computer for each student, access to internet, our own server, CD player, access to satellite TV, sound system, a projector and an interactive touch screen. This enables us to incorporate a strong element of information technology into the classes we teach and means that we can help the students in using their language skills in the most realistic ways possible.
Furthermore in the foreign languages staff are committed to incorporating new methods into the way we teach languages. We want to introduce our students to languages in as many different and stimulating ways as is possible. For this reason we organise different activities outside the area of normal classes; theatre trips; magic shows; optional classes on subjects such as popular music, literature, comics, urban legends and many more.
