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All
A.I.E Schools (Patagonia, Buenos Aires and Córdoba) work
with the same levels, learning method, materials and books,
levels, programs and the same quality of teachers. The students
can combine our locations achieving a continuous learning.
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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. |
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students interested in group classes must take an oral and written
placement evaluation in order to determine the Spanish level and the
appropiate group. The students can take this evaluation one hour before
the first class. |
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Note:
it is not necessary to take the placement test for students without
previous knowledge of Spanish because of we already know the Spanish
level.
The
placement evaluation is very important for us in order to provide
the best service. The levels are carefully organized. We always
guarantee this aspect.
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the language aspects, the SPECIFIC GOALS FOR THE 7 LEVELS are
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BEGINNER level - ELEMENTARY level - 40 classes:
This levels are for beginners with no previous knowledge of the
Spanish language or who have a basic knowledge of the language and/or
they had studied Spanish years ago. It is aimed to give the students
basic communication skills in everyday situations. The students
will be able to use the Present Simple.
The
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.
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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. - Comunicate likes
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LOWER INTERMEDIATE level - 40 classes:
At the end of this level, the 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 conjetures.
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INTERMEDIATE level - 40 classes: The 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.
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UPPER INTERMEDIATE level - 40 classes: The 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.
- 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 who do not make
mistakes in neither 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 students 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 our 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 are offered 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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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.
Like advanced level, students are offered 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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