Spanish Advanced 2 - F2F (B2)

This course is a continuation from Spanish Advanced 1 and is for any student wishing to learn the language for business, travel or everyday use with approximately 320 hours of Spanish required. Students will develop skills to use in conversation, reading, listening and writing. This course aims to build higher level comprehension and communication skills in advanced Spanish and a review of cultural practices, with a focus on clear explanation of higher level language principles.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

TEXTBOOK

• Aula Internacional 4 (B2.1), Jaime Corpas, Eva García, Agustín Garmendia and Nuria Sanchez (Difusión, Spain 2014), Chapters 5-6

Supplier: Abbey's Bookshop
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

• Talking about cities: describing them and commenting their attributes
• Talking about prior thoughts about something
• Expressing positive, negative or neutral feelings
• Relative Clauses: que, quien/es, cuyo/-a/-os/-as
• Past Participle in Relative Clauses: Passive Voice
• Verbs of perception and opinion + Indicative/Subjunctive
• Vocabulary about cities and travel
• Expressing conditions
• Establishing conditions and requirements
• Impersonal Clauses with se: se valorará...
• Passive Clauses
• Infinitivo compuesto
• Perfecto de subjuntivo
• Relative Structures: quienes, aquellos que, todo aquel que, el/la/los/las que...
• Vocabulary about politics, society and education

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate in fluent Spanish.
2. Use advanced Spanish skills in conversation in both social and business settings.
3. Exhibit the skills, vocabulary and study attitude required for continued study of Spanish.

LANGUAGE CLASS TRANSFER POLICY

If you are a new WEA Student and enrol into a language class and subsequently find that you are at the wrong level (whether too high or too low), you are permitted to transfer into another more suitable class at no additional cost, provided that the request is made within the first two classes and is in writing from your tutor directly to the Education Manager. After that point, an administration fee of $30 will apply.