Print this page Intermediate Spanish: B2.5 Course
Available Classes
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, making predictions, conveying requests and warnings, and discussing environmental issues. Grammar is developed in context, including advanced tense usage, time clauses, and cohesive devices. Vocabulary is expanded across topics such as history, environment, and narrative language, supporting more sophisticated and structured communication.
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: via Zoom / Microsoft Teams
TEXTBOOK
- 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.
COURSE OUTLINE
Communication
- Combining past tenses; referring to past events
- Conveying requests and warnings
- Telling stories (tales, legends, etc.)
- Making predictions about the future
- Analysing and presenting environmental issues (causes and consequences)
- Structuring and organising texts coherently
Grammar
- Time expressions and structures: justo cuando, entonces…
- Tense usage: imperfect (indicative and subjunctive); combining past tenses
- Verb forms: uses of the gerund
- Word order: position of adjectives
- Future forms: future perfect
- Time clauses: 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 for text cohesion: synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms
- Nominalisation
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Communicate in Spanish about past, present, and future events with fluency and coherence.
- Use key grammar structures such as complex tense combinations, time clauses, and cohesive devices with accuracy.
- Apply relevant vocabulary to narrate, analyse, and structure ideas effectively across a range of topics.
