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Continue building your confidence in Spanish with our Beginner Spanish: A1.2 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Spanish: A1.1 Course or have approximately 20 hours of prior study. This course expands your ability to communicate in everyday social situations, including talking about family and friends, describing people, discussing your interests, shopping, and expressing preferences with greater confidence.

You'll develop practical communication skills while comparing people and things, asking questions, identifying everyday objects and interacting in simple shopping situations. Grammar and vocabulary are introduced naturally through meaningful communication as you extend your use of common verbs, adjectives, demonstratives and question forms to participate in increasingly natural conversations.

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 1 A1 Edicion Hibrida Libro del Alumno (Difusion: 2022), ISBN: 9788419236043

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

• Talking about physical appearance and personality
• Expressing, comparing, and asking about likes, dislikes, and interests
• Talking about personal relationships
• Identifying items; expressing needs
• Buying in shops (asking for products and prices); talking about preferences

Grammar

• Determiners: demonstratives (este, esta, estos, estas, esto)
• Nouns and adjectives: el / la / los / las + adjective
• Interrogatives: qué + noun; cuál / cuáles
• Verb structures: tener que + infinitive
• Verbs: gustar, ir, preferir
• Quantifiers: muy, bastante, un poco
• Expressions: también / tampoco
• Orthography: diacritical accents

Phonetics

• Sound: /r/ (erre)
• Intonation: questions

Vocabulary

• Family; personality adjectives; music
• Numbers over 100; colours; clothes and accessories
• Everyday objects
• Uses of llevar; combinations with ir

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate in Spanish about people, preferences, and everyday situations such as shopping and social interactions.
2. Use key grammar structures such as demonstratives, verb patterns, and quantifiers with increasing accuracy.
3. Apply relevant vocabulary and pronunciation patterns to describe, compare, and express opinions effectively.