diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 478979110..739df31ea 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ install:
   - "pip install -r requirements.txt"
   - "export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`"
   - "python setup.py build_ext --inplace > /dev/null"
-  - "python -m spacy.en.download all"
 
 # run tests
 script:
-  - py.test tests/
+  - py.test tests/tokenizer/
+  - py.test tests/vocab/
+  - py.test tests/tagger/