Print this page Intermediate Spanish: B1 Conclusion

Continue developing your intermediate Spanish fluency and confidence with our Intermediate Spanish: B1 Conclusion course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Spanish: B1.5 Course or have approximately 300 hours of prior study. This course helps you expand your ability to communicate more confidently in Spanish while strengthening your understanding of key grammar and vocabulary needed for everyday conversation. It is ideal for learners interested in learning Spanish for cultural interest or personal enrichment in a supportive and interactive learning environment.

You will practise communication in situations such as analysing events, giving opinions about behaviour, making hypotheses about the present and past, describing mysterious situations, and expressing certainty or doubt. Grammar is developed in context, including evaluative expressions with the infinitive and present subjunctive, structures for hypothesis, review of the future tense, the future perfect, and forms used to express probability and uncertainty. Vocabulary is expanded through topics such as psychology, science, social change, mysterious phenomena, and language for speculation and belief.

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: via Zoom / 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

• Analysing situations and events
• Giving opinions about behaviour and actions
• Making hypotheses and conjectures about the present and the past
• Describing mysterious events
• Expressing different degrees of certainty and uncertainty

Grammar

• Evaluative expressions: es injusto / una vergüenza... + infinitive / que + present subjunctive
• Evaluative expressions: está bien / mal + infinitive / que + present subjunctive
• Opinion structures: me parece bien / mal / ilógico... + infinitive / que + present subjunctive
• Reference structures: esto / eso / lo + de (que) + noun / verb
• Expressions of hypothesis with the indicative and subjunctive
• Future tense: review of forms and uses
• Future perfect: forms and uses for hypotheses
• Structures for probability and uncertainty with indicative and subjunctive

Vocabulary

• Actions to make the world a better place
• Characteristics and materials of objects
• Expressions: quizá, a lo mejor, es posible, probablemente, tal vez...
• Mysterious events and paranormal phenomena
• Psychology and science
• Enigmas, horoscopes, fortune-telling, and futurology
• Uses of the verbs “to think”, “to remember”, and expressions with creer

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate in Spanish about opinions, uncertainty, and hypothetical situations with increased fluency.
2. Use advanced B1 grammar structures such as the present subjunctive, future perfect, and probability expressions with improved accuracy.
3. Apply expanded vocabulary to discuss science, mystery, beliefs, and social issues effectively.