Continue developing your intermediate Spanish fluency and confidence with our Intermediate Spanish: B1.4 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Spanish: B1.3 Course or have approximately 260 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 leaving and reporting messages, passing on requests or advice, telling real or invented anecdotes, and discussing causes and consequences of events. Grammar is taught in context and includes indirect speech for reporting messages and questions, connectors for expressing cause and consequence, and further practice combining the main past tenses including the pretérito perfecto, pretérito indefinido, pretérito imperfecto, and the pluperfect. Vocabulary development focuses on communication and messaging, travel and tourism, and verbs used to express intentions and requests, helping you narrate experiences and relay information more clearly 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

• Be able to leave messages and transmit commands, requests and advice.
• Tell real or made-up anecdotes.
• Resources for 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)
• Notifying orders, requests and advice
• Cause and consequence connectors: como, porque, así que, o sea que
• Pluperfect tense (pluscuamperfecto de indicativo)
• Combine the different past tenses (pretérito indefinido, pretérito imperfecto, pretérito perfecto y pretérito pluscuamperfecto)

Vocabulary

• Verbs that explain the intention of a message (preguntar, recomendar)
• Types of messages: letter, text, email
• Verbs to ask something (pedir, preguntar)
• Vocabulary about travels and types of tourism

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate in Spanish by reporting messages, requests, and advice using indirect speech.
2. Tell and respond to anecdotes while showing interest and reacting appropriately in conversation.
3. Use a wider range of intermediate Spanish grammar and vocabulary to describe past events, explain causes and consequences, and discuss travel and communication topics.