Continue developing your intermediate Spanish fluency and confidence with our Intermediate Spanish: B1.5 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Spanish: B1.4 Course or have approximately 280 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 express interests and feelings, talk about relationships, describe how things function, evaluate objects and design, and disagree in both direct and more diplomatic ways. Grammar is taught in context, including covering structures such as me fascina / me encanta / odio / no aguanto + noun or infinitive, que + subjunctive, superlatives in -ísimo/a/os/as, exclamatory structures, and the use of indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses with prepositions. Vocabulary practice includes emotions, habits and quirks, language for disagreement and counter-argument, and descriptive terms for objects, materials, and design evaluation.

DELIVERY MODE

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

TEXTBOOK

• Aula Internacional Plus 3 B1 Edicion Hibrida Libro del Alumno (Difusion: 2022), ISBN: 9788419236081

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.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Express interests and feelings
• Talk about relationships
• Show disagreement in different registers
• Soften expressions of disagreement
• Make counter-arguments
• Describe the characteristics and functioning of something
• Give opinions about objects

Grammar

• Me fascina / me encanta / odio / no aguanto…
• Que + subjunctive
• Me fascina(n) / me encanta(n) / odio / no aguanto… + noun / infinitive
• Superlatives in -ísimo/a/os/as
• Exclamatory structures: ¡qué…!, tan…, más…!
• Relative clauses with prepositions
• Indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses

Vocabulary

• Intonation in echo questions
• Intonation of parenthetical expressions
• Verbs to express interests, feelings and emotions
• Habits and quirks
• Language resources to show disagreement
• Vocabulary to describe objects (shapes, materials, etc.)
• Vocabulary to evaluate design
• Superlatives and other gradable expressions

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Express interests, feelings, and opinions with nuance, including talking about relationships, evaluating objects and design, showing disagreement in different registers, softening your position, and making counter-arguments effectively.
2. Use key grammatical structures to express emotion, evaluation, and contrast, including me fascina / me encanta / odio / no aguanto + noun or infinitive, que + subjunctive, superlatives in -ísimo/a/os/as, exclamatory structures (¡qué…!, tan…, más…!), and the use of indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses with prepositions.
3. Improve pronunciation and expand thematic vocabulary, focusing on intonation in echo questions and parenthetical expressions, verbs and expressions for feelings and disagreement, vocabulary for habits and quirks, and descriptive language for shapes, materials, and design evaluation.