Continue developing your intermediate Spanish fluency and confidence with our Intermediate Spanish: B2.5 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Spanish: B2.4 Course or have approximately 380 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 telling stories and legends, referring to historical events, making predictions about the future, conveying requests and warnings, and discussing environmental topics and their consequences. Grammar is taught in context and includes further practice combining past tenses, the use of the imperfect in different contexts, the future perfect, time clauses with common connectors, and structures that help organise ideas more clearly. Vocabulary development focuses on themes such as natural phenomena and disasters, the history of cities, sport, and environmental issues, alongside language resources that support text cohesion and clearer expression of complex ideas in Spanish.
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 5 B2.2 Libro del Alumno (Difusion: 2021), ISBN: 9788418224898
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
- Combine past tenses
- Refer to past events
- Convey requests and warnings
- Tell stories (tales, legends, etc.)
- Make predictions about the future
- Analyse and present environmental issues (causes and consequences)
- Structure and organise texts coherently
Grammar
- Time markers and structures: justo cuando, entonces…
- Uses of the imperfect (indicative and subjunctive)
- Uses of the gerund
- Position of adjectives
- Future perfect
- Time clauses with mientras, hasta (que), en cuanto, antes de (que), después de (que)
- Cohesive devices for structuring texts
Vocabulary
- Natural disasters and phenomena
- Vocabulary related to the history of cities
- Sports-related vocabulary
- Language for talking about people and historical events
- Environment
- Language resources for text cohesion: synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms
- Nominalisation
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Communicate in Spanish by narrating and analysing past events while combining different past tenses in coherent narratives.
- Discuss future developments and environmental issues while presenting causes, consequences, and predictions.
- Use a wider range of advanced-intermediate Spanish grammar and vocabulary to organise longer spoken or written texts clearly and effectively.
