Start your intermediate Spanish learning journey with our Intermediate Spanish: B1.1 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Spanish: A2 Conclusion course or have approximately 180 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 habits and social norms, share past experiences and anecdotes, give opinions and advice, and talk about beginnings and durations of actions in a clear and natural way. Grammar is taught in context, including soler + infinitivo, structures such as lo normal / lo habitual es…, quantifiers like todo el mundo and nadie, prohibitions and permissions (está prohibido / permitido), and a range of perífrasis verbales including empezar a, acabar de, volver a, dejar de, seguir and llevar + gerund. You will also learn to use desde, desde hace, and desde que to anchor actions in time. Vocabulary practice includes work, daily and social habits, life changes, and key expressions with ser and estar used to describe norms and rules helping you use intermediate Spanish more confidently and naturally in real-life situations.
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 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.
Communication
- Express prohibition, obligation and impersonality
- Talk about habits in the present tense
- Give an opinion or advice
- Tell past experiences or anecdotes
- Talk about the beginning and the duration of an action
- Placing an action in time
Grammar
- Lo normal/Lo habitual/ Lo raro es + infinitive
- Soler + infinitivo
- Quantifiers: todo el mundo, nadie
- Está prohibido/está permitido
- Se prohíben/se permiten
- Perífrasis verbales: empezar a; acabar de; terminar de; volver a; dejar de + infinitive; llevar / seguir + gerund
- Desde/desde que / desde hace
Vocabulary
- Work
- Social habits
- Verb "dejar"
- Expressions with "ser" y "estar" to talk about habits and social rules
- Facts and changes in a person's life
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Share past experiences and describe habits, express prohibition and obligation, and give advice and opinions using natural, idiomatic structures.
- Place actions clearly in time, using perífrasis verbales (empezar a, acabar de, volver a, seguir, llevar, etc.) and temporal markers like desde, desde hace, and desde que to talk about beginnings, duration, frequency, and social habits.
- Communicate confidently about work, life changes, routines, and social norms, using key vocabulary, quantifiers (todo el mundo, nadie), and expressions with ser and estar to express rules, habits, and general statements.
