Description

This is the most personalized CIAM course, aimed at helping students achieve well-defined learning objectives of Spanish in a short period of time. Classes can be individual or for groups of two or three people.

Recipients

Spanish learners of all levels (A1-C1) and of all ages, who are doing courses with other educational institutions and who want to improve their level of Spanish or work on specific aspects (oral or written expression, oral or written comprehension, oral or written interaction, oral or written mediation, grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, etc.) and thus meet their learning needs (improve their Spanish for professional purposes, pass an exam, face a job interview with more confidence, etc.).

Elements of the program

It includes:

• Initial interview before the start of classes and learning needs analysis questionnaire that will help us develop a carefully prepared study program.
• Personalized program, designed to achieve learning objectives.
• Sessions with a CIAM teacher, in our facilities or in your office or home, if you live in Soria, or through Teams or Zoom if you prefer online classes.
• Interactive, personalized sessions. It is a perfect way to advance very fast.
• Final virtual task: interview a person from Soria’s cultural life. Through this task the student will have the opportunity to get closer to some of the referents of the cultural life of the city.

Optional:

• Three months of access to the AVE Global learning platform, designed by the Instituto Cervantes, in which students have access to more than 8,000 activities, audio files and videos in order to work autonomously before and after online sessions with the teacher. For more information write an email to info@ciantoniomachado.com.
• Individualized tutorials to work specifically on how to develop strategies and resources to learn how to learn Spanish.
• Possibility of getting closer to Hispanic culture through online cultural visits, guided by your teacher, to the main museums of Spain.

Objectives

The general and specific objectives of the course are stated with the student after a needs analysis.

Below there is an orientation of general objectives adapted to different levels of language proficiency that the student wants to achieve.

There is also the possibility to design a course to work on C2 level objectives, although with other online resources.

A1

• To interact in a simple way and with a very limited repertoire of language resources if there is help from the interlocutor.
• To understand very short and simple written texts with a clear structure.
• To be able to meet immediate needs related to specific and predictable everyday communicative situations.

A2

• To express oneself in an understandable and clear way in simple contexts.
• To interact in basic everyday communicative situations.
• To be able to properly use basic social conventions in order to communicate in an understandable way in everyday situations.
• To understand short and simple texts and even journalistic texts.

B1

• To get along with reasonable correction and flexibility in everyday situations of certain complexity.
• To use a varied but simple lexicon and structures relatively fluently and correctly.
• To describe experiences, wishes, complaints and plans.
• To understand and produce relatively complex texts on everyday topics and short official documents.

B2

• To communicate fluently and precisely, adopting the proper register and level of formality, to express arguments and nuances appropriate to the situation.
• To get along in social situations without difficulties, expressing oneself with fluency, precision and spontaneity.
• To understand and produce texts on concrete and abstract topics, and discuss them.

C1

• To get along in all types of communicative situations, even when they require talking about abstract and complex issues.
• To communicate fluently and spontaneously even in complex communicative situations using an extensive and precise lexicon and a wide and varied repertoire of linguistic resources.
• To produce clear, well-structured and detailed texts on topics of a certain complexity.

Methodology

The sessions are organized following dynamics and activities that involve the participants experientially. Reflection and research about the work carried out are the fundamental tools used to build knowledge and guide the learning experiences of the participants.

The teachers

The teachers of our language and culture courses are in charge of planning and developing the classes of our programs. You can check their professional profiles here.

Important info

Minimum number of classes	1 hour
When can I take my classes?	Whenever you want From 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
Levels	All levels A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 (beginners, intermediate and advanced)
Duration of the classes	55 minutes
Certificate	At the end of the course and after taking the evaluation tests, the student will obtain a certificate which states the number of teaching hours taken, the course contents and the final grade.
Class cancellation	You can cancel your individual classes or change the time writing an email 24 hours before the class to info@ciantoniomachado.com (business days).

Price

Duration	Price of individual classes – 1 or 2 students	Price/person for groups from 3 to 4 students
1 – 10 hours	35 euros/hour	To be determined
10 hours	300 euros	200 euros
20 hours	580 euros	380 euros
30 hours	870 euros	570 euros
40 hours	1120 euros	750 euros

 Price of AVE Global with CIAM

Name of the course	Price on autonomous form
AVE Global. Beginner course A1.1	75 euros
AVE Global. Beginner course A1.2	75 euros
AVE Global. Elementary course A2.1	75 euros
AVE Global. Elementary course A2.2	75 euros
AVE Global. Intermediate course B1.1	75 euros
AVE Global. Intermediate course B1.2	75 euros
AVE Global. Intermediate course B1.3	75 euros
AVE Global. Intermediate course B1.4	75 euros
AVE Global. Upper intermediate course B2.1	75 euros
AVE Global. Upper intermediate course B2.2	75 euros
AVE Global. Upper intermediate course B2.3	75 euros
AVE Global. Upper intermediate course B2.4	75 euros
AVE Global. Advanced course C1.1	75 euros
AVE Global. Advanced course C1.2	75 euros
AVE Global. Advanced course C1.3	75 euros
AVE Global. Advanced course C1.4	75 euros

For more information on the conditions of registration, payment, cancellation and visas, click here.