Asociación de Cultura Inglesa de San Vicente es una institución educativa cuyo fin primordial es la enseñanza del idioma inglés. Forma parte de  COBCI (Coordinated British Cultural Institutes, la cual organiza un congreso anual en el que participan las directoras de los distintos institutos que la integran. Cada año, los miembros de COBCI se enriquecen por el intercambio de programas de estudio, material didáctico actualizado, conferencias a cargo de profesionales capacitados y la presentación de sus respectivos balances.



La A.C.I. ofrece cursos con programas modernos y ágiles que desarrollan el Inglés comunicativo con conocimientos útiles desde el primer día de clase. Los cursos están divididos en niveles de acuerdo a los conocimientos y necesidades de cada alumno.

• NIÑOS (desde los 5/6 años de edad)
• ADOLESCENTES (con o sin conocimientos previos)
• ADULTOS ( cursos regulares, intensivos, cursos de conversación, cursos empresariales)
• CURSOS ESPECIALES (para viajeros, preparación para alumnos que rinden exámenes internacionales de la Universidad de Cambridge : P.E.T.-Preliminary English Test-, F.C.E. -First Certificate English-)
• CLASES DE APOYO
• DEPARTAMENTO DE TRADUCCIÓN

Todos los cursos se vinculan con plataformas de comunicación digital. Proyecciones en el aula multimedia con el uso de IWB (Pizarra interactiva), utilización pedagógica en nuestro Facebook / Blog donde los alumnos pueden interactuar con el idioma. La implementación de estos avances tecnológicos tiene como fin principal extender y profundizar el aprendizaje del idioma inglés para que el mismo se adapte al ritmo vertiginoso de estos tiempos. Para lograrlo, las profesoras asisten regularmente a cursos de perfeccionamiento.
Además de las actividades curriculares, se realizan:

• Talleres que tienen como objeto lograr proyectarnos a la comunidad sanvicentina, integrar a los alumnos de distintos niveles y afianzar lazos culturales entre países para lograr el entendimiento y el acercamiento de los pueblos.
• Visitas de estudiantes y profesionales de intercambio
• Dramatizaciones
• Clases abiertas
• Festejos de Halloween . Estas celebraciones varían desde una velada  hasta talleres extra-escolares donde los alumnos tienen la posibilidad de practicar el idioma inglés, sin dejar de lado el esparcimiento y la diversión.

The year 2012 has just started

TEACHERS AT THE CULTURA HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL PARTICIPATING IN THE BLOG

ADULT COURSES

Conversation group- Theme: "the beginning of your own speech"

5th. year
Time to write an ARTICLE: My favourite outfit!

6th. year
Opinions about: GENDER EQUALITY

2011

Here we are... ! with the start of a new school year which we hope will be great.

WELCOME to all our students. We look forward to helping you and seeing your productions in this ..
your "blog". Come on, Let´s start working. The best luck for all of you.

THE TEACHERS

Let´s practise Grammar exercises and revise for the Exams.
Choose the options of the different themes.



TEENS´ COURSES

Practice your English clicking here. You will have the opportunity to do lots of activities such as: games, articles, grammar, cartoons...

KIDS´ COURSES
Look for games, songs, stories and activities and learn English playing click here .

A.C.I. TOUR to the THEATRE...

Last September 13th. students of 5th. year San Vicente and 5th. and 6th years San Martín , travelled to Santa Fe to see the play: The Young Einstein . Moreover they enjoyed an afternoon together. Here are some pictures.


Now I hope to get your comments as well as more photos...!!

Football World Cup is over !
Goodbye South Africa and well done to SPAIN : THE CHAMPION..!

And ...who´s the winner in our blog quiz?
Well, nobody answered the three questions correctly... However, many students answered the first question OK, and guessed about some final teams of the second question.
They are: Julieta (who has the most correct answers)
Fernando
Lara
Pau,Vale, Anto, Juli, Kili.
Valentín, Tomi, Santi.
Facu
Florencia
Lucía
Anto, Fiama
Fede
Emelí
Claudia (the teacher..!)
Leandro

CONGRATULATIONS to all of them . You´ll get the prizes after the holidays....
See you

Let's celebrate the biggest party of the world: SOUTH AFRICA 2010.

We invite all our students and ex-students to participate in the ACI Football World Cup Quiz.

Read these questions, click in comments and leave your answers there.

You may be the WINNER...!

1. Who will score the most "goals" in the Argentinian team?

2. Which will be the four final teams?

3. Who will be the Champion of the 2010 World Cup?

Welcome 2010

Starting a new school year is always a challenge.
We invite all our students to visit the weblog, you´ll find loads of activities to practise and enjoy the learning of English. Try these links:

2009 is over..! and a new group of students have been graduated. CONGRATULATIONS to all of them.. Here they are:

Happy Halloween 2009

This year we celebrated Halloween with the Kids of the ACI

They were all great with their costumes and enjoyed the games a lot!

Let´s see the pictures (there were two elder witches...!!)and thanks to all the assistants too

For kids: October means Halloween....!!! Let´s practice and enjoy some games


Halloween Activities

The ACI invites you to write about our town in twitter.
How can you do it?

You can tell us in short reports: what´s our town like?, what do you like about it?, its history, its present, events or what would you like for its future?

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing.


Instrucciones

1) Ingresar a www.twitter.com

2) Click en "Join!"

3) Completar con tus datos y hacer click en "create account"

4) en el cuadro debajo de "what are you doing?" ingresar lo siguiente: "#ACISanVicente" y luego un espacio y un mensaje sobre San Vicente en inglés de menos de 130 caracteres. Hacer click en "Update".

Example: "#ACISanVicente In San Vicente there´s a beautiful central plaza where everyone meets."

6) opcional: para ver nuestro mensaje junto a los de nuestros compañeros, ingresar a www.search.twitter.com y llenar el cuadro de búsqueda con lo siguiente: "#ACISanVicente". Hacer click en search.

Visit results of web twitter #ACISanVicente

First off all I must say thanks to the teacher for this amazing trip... We enjoyed everything!!!
The play was great and funny. I think Appy was the the funiest character. Cleopatra wasn´t what I expected. I thought that she was the most beautiful of the play , but she wasn´t. In spite of this I admired how she could sing all this songs... I liked her lyrics.
I can´t forget mention Beck . He was gorgeus! Mavi and Grachu looked him all the time.
The rest of trip was excelent too...
xoxoxoxoox
Anto

6TH.YEARS'TOUR

AT LAST WE DID IT!!
Students and teachers from San Vicente and San Martin all went to Sta. Fe to see the play "Cleopatra" .


Here are some pictures that reveal what we did on this nice afternoon we spent together ...
Even the boys ("profe" included) managed to play and compete with video games for a while!
Now , we'd like to know your opinions about the play , characters , your general view about it all.
Hope to see your comments.

ADVERTISING WORKSHOP


Students show their conclusions about the extra class with a "words cloud" . Let´s enjoy them!!

'Good friends are like stars.... .....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.'

HAPPY FRIEND´S DAY to all our students and friends
the teachers -ACI

Welcome to the new users of the A.C.I. blog: 4th. year students .
You can post your works here.

A mum like dad

Nowadays I have often wondered if women should get equal pay for doing the same work as men.

Now I´m conviced that both gender should get the same pay, because we have the same rights.Therefore they will admit female effort; be mother is a unique experiencie and It isn´t so easy. Moreover if women work outside the house is all a challenge for them.

It seems to me that the world has changed last years. There are a lot of advances in different topics and is neccesary that we would be able to accept these changes. However people don´t make criticism about men´s pays due to the dominant gender was male. The history ratifies that, but now we may also see that women can experiment a lot of works. What´s more I think that women are better than men in some works such as administration and work office.For example if my dad was sitting eight hours in a desk, He will be crazy but my mum can tolerate this.

In short I see that women work the same hours as men and I don´t believe that the bussineses won´t be able to understand the women rolls. We have the same rights!

With different points of view we can communicate new ideas so we will improve our relationships.

GOOD LUCK

(ANTO)

6TH. YEAR WORKS:

1- OPINION ESSAYS:

Welcome to 2009 Courses

I hope this year Students visit and use the ACI blog.

Our objective is try to practise and improve the learning and teaching of the language.

The Best wishes for a great year!

Graduates 2008

" HALLOWEEN ! ..AT ACI"

Last October 31st. we celebrated Halloween with the children courses. They participated with their spectacular costumes : witches, monsters ,ghosts, goblins, devils and so on, were some of the spooky... characters .

We all played games, integrated with other courses , practiced English and enjoyed a really Halloween party.

There was a FANTASTIC ending: a special visit : the Addams Family represented by some adult students and teenagers. GREAT!!! AND MANY THANKS TO ALL OF THEM... Have a look at some photos ...

FCE papers
Students write their works here. (articles, essays , etc)

Ricardo Arjona was born in Joconotenango, Guatemala, in January 19th, 1964. He´s a famous singer-songwriter. By the age of nine, he started to play guitar and wrote his firsts songs.

At the age of twenty one, Ricardo released his first album, "Déjame decir que no" in the city of Guatemala. However, he became famous when his second record was recorded, "Jesús: verbo no sustantivo", and millons of copies of this album appeared in the shops.

Something very important which happened his life was that his name appeared in the library where he was studying, and also in a street in Jocotenango.

Ricardo Arjona participated in "Alcanzar una estrella", a series on tv programe. In this programe he had the opportunity to show people listen his songs, "La mujer que no soñé jamás", "El taxista", among others.

In 2006 and 2007, he won two Grammies and one Grammy Latino, for his record "Adentro".

In my opinion is a really good singer-songwriter. Many people like the lyrics of his songs, especially women. His most successful hits are: "La nena", "El problema", "Santo pecado" and "Duele verte".

By Danei

Biographies by 5th. year 2008

Olympic Game

Let´s listen to the theme song of Beijing 2008 and watch the video of the openning ceremony.

The platence actor-songwrite Pablo Martìnez is a young cute boy. At the moment, he's living Ba As.
In the spite of this, at the wekeends he also lives in La Plata whit his parent and two brothers.
He was born on 23 Nobember 1986, in the great place front of see.

When he was a young child, he played volley boll in Vélez. Furthermore, for years ago, Pablo worked in the librery on The Desingn and Arquitect Faculty, a as offices clerk. Besides at the age of 18 he worked a as R.R.P.P in the disco on Belgrano in addiction, he likes cars and friday go on racing car track.
Nowa days, he has the role o "SIMÓN" in "Casi Angeles"; However, he has been acting in several of films, plays, "FREE SUIMMING POOL" or "LET'S DO AN OPERA". That were releasea at the early 2007.

Also, sometimes, his friends call him little clown. Nevertheless,he continues being a fan of the football tean "Newbel"
He loves his car and he`s crazy about writing things about his life,love,friends,etc, on his oun furnitive; such as cupboard or book shelvs. In spite of in being very romantic he is and untidy.

I feel that Pablito is one extraordinable person, singer and very good looking. he's calm,sporty and he enjoys spending time whit his family. well, finally is perfect candidate for single girls.

bye, kiss

BY VICKY

Here are the photos about Mauri´s farewell

Mulishani (How are you? In Bemba)
My dear partners I am writing from far away only to say that: "I remember you everyday and I miss our lessons in the evening time with “The Teacher” and sharing food among all of us". All the best to you and continue studying as is the only way to comunicate and know other cultures. I am doing my best effort! See you soon. Keep in touch. Mauri

Natotela sana (Thank you!)

Welcome : "3rd. year Junior"

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6th. year Speaking Workshop
Topic: "Holidays"
Student´s opinions: Did you like the workshop? Why/ Why not?
Could you express your ideas?
Any suggestions for future topics?

Hello to Adults´Courses:

Here we´ll find out stories, opinions and practical works from Adult Students.

WELCOME TO A.C.I. BLOG 2008

We have started this new school year with a new characteristic in our blog.
From now on , all our students can participate, not only with comments (as they did last year) but also you can publish , post, insert photos or videos or example.

To practise with this new idea , let´s start with your personal presentations.

WELCOME AGAIN TO STUDENTS OF 5th. years, 6th. year, special courses

Hello! I hate to make profiles but I have to do it, because the teacher is angry!!!
My name´s Sofía Turino and I´m seventeen... I live in San Vicente, Santa Fe.
I don´t like any subjectct of the school, I only like Law, Culture and Economics because we discuss reality situations of life... Also P.E. only when we play volleyball or handball.
At the weekends I like to be with my friends and go out... I love going to "Daser Junior" on Saturday, it´s very funny...
I like very very very much animals... but I only have two Dálmatas Dog: "Lola" y "Arón"; and I have a tortoise "Dora", I had had another "Anita" but it had lost, I´m really sad because of that... When I was younger I had fishes, but they´d died. My favourites animal are dolphins and zebras.
In my free time I listen to music (good music), I read or watch Tv; my favourite program is "Duro de Domar", I see it always at 19 when I arrive home, because I go out of the school at that hour.
I think I said enough, I hope you like it teacher.
Bye.

6th. year: Practical Work 2
Opinion Essay about "Gender Equality"

2nd. year junior
Students make descriptions of different kinds of animals

The ACI is a comfortable and quite modern building.

It´s situated on the corner of Liniers and Buenos Aires streets and It´s started to work in 1973 in Asociacion Presidente Sarmiento.

Then It moved to family´s houses. Finally the ACI has been situated in this building since 1885.

The walls of the building are made of smooth white stones.In addition on one of the front entrance leads to a big hall which connects to the library.Here, there is a boockcase whit material for teaches and students.Next to It there is a desk where the Director or teachers welcome parents as well as students.Moreover the hall sometimes becomes a workshop, a classroom,a meeting room and a place where students act.On the left of this hall there are two classrooms.In the first one little children learn English playing and singing songs with different teachers.The other room is usually for teenagers and adults.It has got a tv, headphones and a lot of videos and films.Both classrooms are painted yellow and they are crowded with pictures, maps and some boockshelves.At the back there is a computer room where students can practise in different webs and visit the ACI blog.

As we see It, this institute is a small building.However,It has got many facilities.Personally speaking we think the English languaje is necesary for our future...

5 junior