Continue developing your beginner Spanish fluency and confidence with our Beginner Spanish: A1.3 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Spanish: A1.2 Course or have approximately 40 hours of prior study. This course helps you strengthen your communication skills for everyday situations while deepening your understanding of Spanish grammar and vocabulary, making it ideal for learners wanting to learn the Spanish language for travel, work, or personal enrichment in a supportive, interactive learning environment.
You will learn to talk about daily routines, habits, and food, including ordering in bars and restaurants, asking for and giving information about meals, and describing eating habits. The course also covers describing places, discussing climate and weather, and giving basic geographical information. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context, including irregular verbs in the present tense, pronominal verbs, direct object pronouns, quantifiers, superlatives, and expressions with de, con, and hay. Phonetics is integrated throughout, with practice in accentuation, intonation for narration and listing, and pronunciation of challenging sounds such as ch and jota to develop clear and confident speech in Spanish.
Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:
- Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
- Online: Microsoft Teams
- Aula Internacional Plus 1 A1 Edicion Hibrida Libro del Alumno (Difusion: 2022), ISBN: 9788419236043
Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date, so students are recommended to wait until the course is confirmed before buying the textbook.
Communication
- Talking about habits, expressing frequency, asking for and giving the time
- Learning how to get by in bars and restaurants
- Asking for and giving information about food
- Talking about eating habits
- Describing places, expressing existence and location
- Talking about climate and the weather
Grammar
- The presente de indicative of irregular verbs
- Pronominal verbs
- Yo también / yo tampoco / yo si /yo no
- Primero / después / luego
- Verbs: poner, traer, estar
- Direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las)
- Uses of de, con, hay
- The superlative
- Quantifiers: muy / mucho / mucha / muchos / muchas; qué, cuál / cuá, cuáantos / cuántas, dónde, cómo
Phonetics
- Accentuation
- Intonation: narration and enumeration
- che and jota
Vocabulary
- Days of the week, times of day, daily activities
- Food, ways of cooking, utensils and recipients
- Typical dishes in Spain and Latin America
- Climate and weather, geography
- Information about countries
- Cardinal points, seasons
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Talk confidently about daily routines, habits, and food-related topics, including asking for and giving the time, discussing eating habits, ordering in bars and restaurants, and describing places, climate, and weather.
- Use key Spanish grammar and vocabulary accurately in context, including irregular verbs in the present tense, pronominal verbs, direct object pronouns, superlatives, quantifiers, and expressions of location and existence.
- Communicate clearly in spoken Spanish, using correct intonation for narration and enumeration, proper accentuation, and the pronunciation of challenging sounds like “ch” and “jota”.
