我们欢迎第二十九组的中国留学生来到这个城市和我们的学院，希望在短时间内他们能够适应及找到他们所需要的，就像在自己家里一样

二零一一年五月六号，星期五那天，大学语言中心的学生参观了美洲开放大学的校区。这也称为大学周，在这当中学生们可以得到该大学提供的教育资讯以便他们能够获得更高的教育水平。

以下一些学生参与了这次的活动，他们是陈旷野, 高雯婷, 管洁茹, 何欣鹏,李晶, 刘文浩, 吕霞, 屈悦, 王畅东, 谢桦敏, 杨建华, 张博, 张贵星, 张中兴, 张敏超, 仲柯蒙, 周旭辉和周彦玮.

该活动是从参观大学的总校开始，因为那里是几乎所有科系上课的地方，在那里学生们参观了不同的教室。

接着是继续参观了大学的电视研究楼，是传播系的学生们实习的地方，这里也是很多阿根廷的电视节目录制影片的地方。

随后，参观了美洲开放大学总校的图书馆和高科技研究中心(CAETI)，学生们参观了那里的活动，计划和研究座谈。

活动以在RANCHO TAXCO牧场（位于离首都30公里的的Ezeiza市，是美洲开放大学的多功能体育场）享用阿根廷的传统烤肉作为结束。 TAXCO牧场有100公顷，有各种运动设施，学生们可以自由出入享用那里的设施。

我们恭喜所有学生热情的出席和参与活动！

This preparatory course is aimed at students willing to attend the Spanish Program for Chinese Students. The course shall be delivered in China, according to the guidelines and programs of our department and shall consist of two months of intensive studies in Spanish (a total of 160 classroom-hours). Students acquire basic Spanish knowledge that will, on the one hand, enable them to develop in the different areas of everyday life as they arrive in Argentina and, on the other hand, will be the basis for their subsequent studies of the Spanish language.

NOTE: This course is a requirement to be accepted in the program in Argentina. Those students who have not completed the course in China must take at least an intensive two-month Spanish course in our institution after they arrive in Buenos Aires.

Requirements: Students must have completed the Beginners Spanish Course, or at least three months of intensive Spanish course, or equivalent. Knowledge of English is not essential, but desirable.

The program has three basic objectives:
1) Developing knowledge of Spanish language –covering the four skills– to communicate in the different environments of everyday life.
2) Developing knowledge and usage of Spanish language, as well as the different study techniques and habits, to achieve the academic objectives.
3) Preparing students for entrance tests and courses in public or private universities.
The curricula has been devised to help handle the most functional elements of the Spanish language at the beginning, and then develop to the most specific and complex aspects of the academic environment.
The program is divided in 4 three-month periods of 12 weeks each, plus a week of evaluations. The two first terms are intended to learn Spanish for general purposes. Students acquire vocabulary and grammatical structures that enable them to develop in a variety of communicative situations. At the end of these two terms, the students will have achieved a level that would be equivalent to the last stages of the intermediate level or the beginning of the advanced level.
The third term introduces study techniques and contents necessary for performance in academic environments: oral presentations, debates, reading and interpreting academic texts, and writing essays and other speech genres.

The last term, “Spanish for University”, is intended to prepare students for the acceptance tests taken in Argentine universities. Through the specific contents of the required subjects, students will continue to work on the Spanish language, mainly on the academic variant with special focus on reading and writing skills.
Each term students will attend three classes a day, and additional support classes, if necessary. Each of these three classes shall focus on a particular skill: Conversation and Grammar, Reading and Writing in Spanish.

Attendance and Passing Requirements

To be considered a regular student of the program and to be able to pass the program students must:

• Attend 70% of the classes.
• Comply with assigned extra-curricular activities and their corresponding term papers/assignments in due time and form.
• Study materials: Students must bring their books and folders, duly organized, as well as all the other materials to all classes, in due conditions for proper use.
• Attend support classes when so required by teachers. Have full attendance to all these classes.
• Get at least 60/100 on the research works and projects assigned each term.
• Get a minimum mark of 60/100 on the final written exam and final oral exam.

(Requirements: To attend and to pass the Spanish Program for Chinese Students. To be a student at a university course)
Once the students have completed the four terms of the Spanish Program for Chinese Students, they will continue with a four month-Spanish Course for Specific Purposes. The aim of this course is to help students acquire the necessary skills and knowledge needed to achieve a better performance in their university studies. Texts, readings, writing activities and research projects shall be selected and designed according to the contents of the university courses being taken by the students.

Students interested in taking a university course in Argentine universities must get prepared to sit for written and oral exams in six subjects (Argentine Geography, Argentine History, Civic Education, Civics, Language and Literature, Argentine Literature) corresponding to the secondary school, according to the Argentine Educational System . The CUI offers a three-semester program, which prepares students for these extremely demanding and exhaustive exams requiring a considerable investment in time, energy and dedication from students.

• BEGINNERS COURSE I LEVEL 1

• BEGINNERS COURSE: LEVEL 2

• Bibliography: Estación español.CUI

• First Quarter

The contents described below are distributed in three modules.

Conversation and Grammar module:students practice vocabulary and structures in a variety of oral activities (oral presentations, role games, improvisations, etc.) through the topics of each unit.Audiovisual material will also be analyzed to practice listening comprehension.

Reading and Grammar module:different reading strategies, working with vocabulary in context and introducing some techniques for decoding and interpreting short texts.

Writing and Grammar module:continuous practice on the production of different types of texts:short messages, informal letters, forms, formal letters, trip journals, etc.Through the last weeks, especial attention shall be paid to narration as a type of text.

Through the last weeks, the Reading and Writing modules will include part of the Geography and History contents the students covered in their native languages during the months of the Beginners course.

A typical week

First Quarter. Contents

Bibliography: Aula 2 Internacional. Barcelona: Difusión, 2006.

Vocabulary: Physical description of people and places.
Professions.
Home.
Likes, preferences and needs.
Entertainment, sports and weekend activities.
Family and personal relations.
Body and health.
Food.
Holidays and celebrations.
Technology and environment.
Argentine and World geography.
Grammar: Uses of “ser / estar / haber”
Indicative mood of regular and irregular verbs
Personal Pronouns
Tener que + infinitive
Comparatives
Estar + Gerund.
DO and IO Pronouns.
Simple and periphrastic future
Imperative
Structures with gustar and parecer
Reflexive verbs

Reading and Writing: Strategies for the interpretation and production of expository, prescriptive and narrative texts: Letters, stories, biographies, comics.

• Second Quarter

The work is similar to the one carried out in the first module, but the Conversation module becomes a Projects workshop. Students work on two projects about specific topics. They will be guided and trained in searching, decoding and organizing information, as well as in presentation techniques. This module will have only three classes a week. On the remaining two days, students will work by themselves, alone or in groups, and a group of assistants (other more advances students or tutors) will help them through the different stages of the project.

Reading module: Medium extension texts will be read. Students will first read opinion texts, and they will gradually include literary texts: poetry and short stories. By the end of the quarter, students will read essays.

Writing module: During the first weeks, narration will remain the main type of text practiced by students. From there, students will pas onto opinion texts, and the argumentative texts.

A typical week

Second Quarter. Contents

Bibliography: Aula Internacional 3. Barcelona: Difusión, 2006.

Vocabulary: Habits and preferences.
Verb phrases.
Trips.
Latin-American culture and customs.
Adjectives, superlatives and adverbs.
The media and its jargon.

Grammar: Review of regular and irregular verbs in present and past.
Use of infinitive / gerund with verbal periphrasis.
Review of imperative and imperative negative.
Impersonal expressions.
Review of pronouns.
Indirect style.
Subjunctive mood, present and imperfect.
Relative sentences.
Introduction to passive voice.

Reading and Writing: Strategies for interpreting and writing argumentative and opinion texts.

• Third Quarter

In the third quarter, students review and strengthen the contents of the previous units through the practical application on research projects and reading and writing works.By doing so, students start becoming familiarized with academic language and strengthen their skills in written and oral Spanish.

The work will also be divided in three modules.The conversation module shall be focused on research projects carried out by students; these projects will be clearly guided and must be done according to the provided guidelines.This works combine the acquisition of contents and the practice of linguistic structures and vocabulary.

The activities and tasks performed through this quarter shall also have a “practical” approach to the language for specific and concrete uses.To that end, two weekly reading and writing modules will be replaced with a Workshop, which will have common expositions, individual and independent work, learning and practice of specific reading and writing techniques, etc.

A typical week

• EVALUATION
  Each quarter, students will be evaluated in three different ways:

1) According to attendance, punctuality, participation in class and to the compliance with, and quality of, the works assigned in class and the results of their research projects.
2) Partial examinations (one at the end of each unit) and final examinations (at the end of each quarter).
3) In regular individual interviews during, and at the end of, each quarter with the academic advisor and the teachers, to report the progress and performance in the program to each student.

Third Quarter Contents

Project: The project consists of the introduction by the teacher of a topic or historic period, together with detailed working guidelines for students to research and develop a topic they chose related to that period. Projects may last for 3 or 4 weeks, and there must be partial deliveries and feedback sessions every Friday.
For example, if the introduced period is 1900-1930, students may choose to research on a literary example of that period, the movies at that time, economy, fine arts. It is important that each student has the chance to deliver for his classmates and share with them the result of the investigation.

Writing and Reading module: Every Monday, the teacher introduces the specific grammar topics for the week, as well as some strategies to be practiced, etc. On Wednesdays that introduction is reinforced and completed with a strong practice, and on Fridays there are feedback sessions over the material written and read.

Writing and reading workshop: The topic and the material is the work produced by the students. Students must develop the skills to analyze and criticize their own work and the work of others, as well as to learn editing strategies to overcome spontaneous mistakes. In the reading workshop, it is important that the class acts as a kind of seminar on the readings; the workshop must cover the practice of specific reading strategies such as text analysis, and the complexity and length of the text must gradually be increased.

Third Quarter
Bibliography: Aula Internacional 4. Barcelona: Difusión, 2006.

Vocabulary: Connectors to tell a story in the past
Leisure and tourism
Individual and community rights
Sciences and arts
The labour world
The world of feelings
Education and special abilities
Latin-American general culture

Grammar: Review of regular and irregular verbs in the past. Time correlation.
Subjunctive in noun and adverbial clauses.
Imperfecto and Pluscuamperfecto of the subjunctive mood.
Impersonal and passive constructions.
Conditionals and subjunctive.

Reading and Writing: Strategies for interpreting and writing news (news, chronicle, interview), poetic and argumentative texts. Approaches to essays.

Specific contents: Twentieth century Argentine and Latin-American history.
Twentieth century Argentine literature and arts.

• Fourth Term: Spanish for University

The most important aim of this course is preparing students for the acceptance tests taken in Argentine universities. For example, to be admitted to the Licenciatura en Comercio Internacional (BA in Foreign Trade) at Unversidad de Tres de Febrero, students must take and pass an admission course made up of three subjects: Studying Methodology, Oral and Written Communication, and Mathematics.
Students go to this course four days a week, three hours a day. The bibliography and materials used in this course have a close relation to those used in the admission course. Students focus on the development of studying techniques and of both oral and written production skills in Spanish.