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/ Learn Spanish in Buenos Aires |
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A.I.E. offers the best teachers of Argentina. All
teachers are full-time teachers of Spanish with several
years' experience in teaching Spanish to foreigners. A.I.E.
is the only Spanish School where all teachers have Masters
degree in Education or Literature from University of Buenos
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All
our teachers have ample teaching experience as regards spanish
as a foreign language. Some of them had the opportunity
of teaching abroad. All
our teachers are Argentine native speakers of Spanish, trained
and experienced in teaching Spanish to foreigners, which
is of great importance for the interaction with the students. |
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Our spanish department functions
autonomously within the school, with a general coordinator
who is in charge of dealing with all pedagogical and administrative
matters, and an academic coordinator who is in charge of
organizing the courses, preparing the teaching materials,
administering the language levels, supporting the students
and teachers, etc. |
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Our Spanish
Courses are intensive training programs. As they are taught
considering seven levels, they are suitable both
for students who wish an introduction to the Spanish language
as well as for those who like to improve their knowledge
of it.
Students
interested in group classes must first take an oral and
written placement test in order to determine the Spanish
level and the appropriate group. Students can take this
test as little as one hour before joining their first
class.
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Note:
for
students without previous knowledge of Spanish language,
it is not necessary to
take the placement test because we already know their
Spanish level.
Levels
are carefully organized and placement test is very important
so that we can provide the best service.
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to language aspects, the SPECIFIC GOALS FOR THE 7 LEVELS
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BEGINNER level - ELEMENTARY level - 40 classes:
These levels are for beginners without previous knowledge
of the Spanish language, students with basic knowledge
of the language or for who had studied Spanish several
years ago. It is aimed to give the students basic communication
skills in everyday situations. Students will be able to
use the Present Simple.
Students
must be able to:
- Give personal information (name, age, nationality, profession,
customs, etc.).
- Understand and editing simple texts.
- Ask for information, favors and permissions.
- Describe persons, objects and simple situations.
- Understand simple texts and oral communications.
- Invite, accept or to refuse invitations.
- Give and to understand simple instructions.
- Interact in a situation of buying and selling.
- Communicate likes and dislikes.
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LOWER INTERMEDIATE level - 40 classes:
At the end of this level, students must be able to:
- Understand different kinds of conversations at normal
oral speed.
- Report
past facts.
- Have
enough language skills to communicate in everyday colloquial
situations.
- Understand
simple oral and written texts on the history of
Patagonia and Argentina.
- Express opinions, enunciate
complaints.
- Express feelings
and needs, make conjectures. |
INTERMEDIATE level - 40 classes: students
must be able use the Present of the Subjunctive Way and
the first Conditional (with the times and mannersof the
previous levels). Once this level is completed, the student
will be able to:
- Speak on the telephone of taking in consideration the
Argentine conventions in formal and informal situations.
- Interact in discussions expressing opinions and using
strategies of persuasion, and express wishes and feelings
using complex phrases.
- Understand
newspapers or magazine articles, written
journalism and television or radial newscasters, as
well as editing texts of an intermediate level.
- Express recommendations and requests in a complex way. |
UPPER INTERMEDIATE level - 40 classes: students must
be able to produce using forms of the past of the Subjunctive
Mood and the Conditional Compound (with
the times and manners of the previous levels).
- Formulate hypothesis and conjectures in relation with
present, past and future facts.
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Express recommendations and requests in a complex way.
- Understand literary texts of Argentine authors with the
help of the teacher.
- Understand oral and written texts on Argentine history,
with the assistance of the teachers. |
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ADVANCED level - 80 classes: For students without
mistakes on the use of the manners and verbal times. Students
must manage with ease -both understanding and producing
more complex written texts and oral speech- and be able
to give detailed information about general subjects as
well as understand any kind of literary texts. The student
must be able to produce oral and writing texts adapted
to the communicative situation.
Once this level is completed, the student will be able
to:
- Produce coherent and correctly written texts on topics
of his interest, making a correct use of punctuation.
- Use formal structures in oral and written texts.
- Carry out a formal oral explanation on a topic of his
interest for an extended period of time.
- Carry out an argument in oral and written forms.
- Understand and to critically perceive the messages of
the mass media.
- Read complex texts.
- Make notes while listening to a native speaker who is
present or whose voice is recorded.
- Understand informal, regional uses of Argentine Spanish
(regional expressions and slang).
At
the advanced level students have the possibility to study
the Spanish language related to their special interests,
professional fields or special needs: Economics, Spanish
and Latin American Literature, Biology, History.
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SUPERIOR level - 80 classes: Students must be able to
master the Spanish language with perfection. They have to
speak and write with the most fluency of the language. This
level is for students interested in completing their studies
of the Spanish language and reaching a high level of knowledge
on Argentine history and literature. In the same way like
advanced level, students have the possibility to study the
language related to their special interests or professional
fields: Economics, Spanish and Latin American Literature,
Biology, History. |
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