The students with previous knowledge of Spanish who decide to take group classes must take an oral and written placement evaluation in order for Alvarez & Borges Spanish Schools to determined the level of Spanish and to choose the appropriate group.
 

Elementary level : 40 classes 

For students considered beginners (without previous knowledge) or that in the diagnostic examination show some initial knowledge of the language.

Once this level is completed, the student will be able to: Introduce himself and give personal information (name, age, nationality, address, work, customs, routines and amusements). Describe objects and persons. Ask for information and to understand simple answers to his requests. Ask for permission and favors. Invite and to offer something to someone. Accept or to refuse invitations politely. Give and to understand simple instructions. Interact in a situation of buying and selling. Express likes and dislikes, agreement and disagreement.

The student will be able to use the Present Simple

Intermediate
level 1 : 40 classes

This course is for those students who in the placement evaluation credit an elementary level.

Once this level is completed, the student will be able to: Report past facts. Understand simple oral and written texts on the history of Buenos Aires. Speak on the telephone of taking in consideration the Argentine conventions in formal and informal situations. Enunciate complaints. Make conjectures.

The student will be able to use different forms of the past and the Simple

Intermediate
level 2 : 40 classes

For students that give credit of an intermediate 1 level in the examination.

Once this level is completed, the pupil will be in able to: Interact in discussions expressing opinions and using strategies of persuasion. Formulate requests and recommendations in a complex way. Express wishes and feelings using complex phrases. Understand texts of opinion of the written journalism and television or radial newscasters.

The student will be able use the Present of the Subjunctive Way and the first Conditional (as well as the times and manners learned in the previous levels). Dirigido a alumnos que han acreditado el nivel intermedio 1 en el examen diagnóstico.

Intermediate
level 3 : 40 classes

For students who credit an intermediate level 2 in the diagnostic examination.

The completion of this level will allow students to: Formulate hypothesis and conjectures in relation with present, past and future facts. Formulate requests and recommendations in a complex way. Express wishes and feelings using complex phrases. Understand literary texts of Argentine authors with the help of the teacher. Understand oral and written texts on Argentine history, with the teacher«s assistance.

The student will be able to produce using forms of the past of the Subjunctive Mood and the Conditional Compound (as well as the times and manners learned in the previous levels)

Advanced
level 1 : 80 classes

For students who do not make mistakes in neither the use of the manners and verbal times, nor in the syntactic construction of the phrases. Besides the correct grammatical forms, a student of this level should be able to produce oral and writing texts adapted to the communicative situation and to understand native speakers no matter which regional variety of Spanish they speak.

Having finished this level, the student will be able to: 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. Produce coherent and correctly written non fictional texts on topics of his interest, making a correct use of punctuation. Make notes while listening to a native speaker who is present or whose voice is recorded). Carry our an argument in oral and written forms. Understand informal, regional uses of Argentine Spanish (regional expressions and slang). Understand and to critically perceive the messages of the mass media. To read complex texts on his own (such as scientific texts, journalistic editorials, notes of opinion, notes of interest, history texts, literary texts).

Advanced
level 2 : 80 classes

For students who have reached a good level of oral and written production of the Spanish language and are in conditions to read and to analyze complex fictional and no- fictional texts. 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.

To complete the quantity of classes of this level, students will be able to choose the following courses:

Argentine History 1: from the conquest to 1880 (40 classes),
Argentine History 2: from 1880 to the popular democracies (40 classes).
Argentine Literature 1: introduction to the Argentine literature of the 19th century (20 classes).
Argentine Literature 2: introduction to the Argentine literature of the 20th century (20 classes).
Argentine Literature 3:poetic vanguards of the 20th century (20 classes).
Argentine Art and literature (20 classes).