Continue expanding your intermediate Spanish communication skills with our Intermediate Spanish: B1.4 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Spanish: B1.3 Course or have approximately 240 hours of prior study. This course develops your ability to relay information, recount anecdotes, explain causes and consequences and communicate more naturally in spoken and written interactions.

You'll practise reporting conversations, leaving messages and discussing travel experiences while expanding vocabulary related to communication and tourism. Grammar is developed through meaningful communication as you strengthen your use of reported speech, past tense combinations and connectors that create more cohesive spoken and written Spanish.

DELIVERY MODE

Language courses are offered in two delivery modes:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: via Zoom or Microsoft Teams

Please check the delivery mode listed before enrolling, as some classes are face-to-face and others are online.

TEXTBOOK

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

Suggested Textbook Suppliers: Abbey's Bookshop · Intext Book Company / Language International Bookshop · The Language People

The textbook is not included in the course fee. Please check textbook availability with the supplier and wait until your course is confirmed before purchasing. WEA Sydney cannot accept responsibility for textbook purchases if a course is cancelled. Courses are confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days before the start date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Leaving messages; transmitting commands, requests, and advice
• Telling real or made-up anecdotes
• Showing interest when listening to an anecdote
• Talking about causes and consequences

Grammar

• Indirect speech: reporting messages (me ha dicho que, me ha preguntado si)
• Structures: reporting orders, requests, and advice
• Connectors: cause and consequence (como, porque, así que, o sea que)
• Past tense: pluperfect (pluscuamperfecto de indicativo)
• Tense usage: combining past tenses (pretérito indefinido, imperfecto, perfecto, pluscuamperfecto)

Vocabulary

• Verbs expressing intention (preguntar, recomendar)
• Types of messages: letter, text, email
• Verbs for requesting (pedir, preguntar)
• Travel and types of tourism

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate in Spanish by reporting information, telling anecdotes, and expressing cause and consequence with clarity.
2. Use key grammar structures such as indirect speech and multiple past tenses with improved accuracy.
3. Apply relevant vocabulary to discuss communication, travel, and everyday interactions effectively.