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 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 discussing everyday habits and social rules, expressing obligation and prohibition, giving opinions and advice, and sharing past experiences or anecdotes. Grammar is taught in context and includes structures for describing habits and social norms, expressing impersonality, and talking about the beginning and duration of actions through common verbal constructions. Vocabulary development focuses on topics such as work, social habits, personal life events, and expressions with ser and estar that help you discuss routines, behaviours, and changes in people's lives with greater confidence in Spanish.

DELIVERY MODE

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

TEXTBOOK

• 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.

COURSE OUTLINE

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

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Discuss habits, social norms, and everyday rules in Spanish while expressing opinions, advice, and obligations.
2. Describe past experiences and anecdotes, and explain when actions begin, continue, or end in everyday contexts.
3. Use a wider range of intermediate Spanish grammar and vocabulary to talk about routines, personal experiences, and changes in life.