Continue developing your beginner Spanish fluency and confidence with our Beginner Spanish: A1.3 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Spanish: A1.2 Course or have approximately 40 hours of prior study. This course helps you build stronger communication skills for everyday situations while expanding your understanding of Spanish grammar and vocabulary. 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 everyday communication such as talking about daily routines and habits, asking and telling the time, ordering food and drinks in cafés and restaurants, discussing eating habits, and describing places and weather conditions. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context to help you describe actions, ask questions, give information, and talk about everyday experiences using a wider range of verbs and sentence structures. Phonetics is integrated throughout the course, with focused practice on Spanish accentuation, natural intonation patterns for narration and listing information, and key pronunciation features such as the sounds represented by "j" and "ch" to help you develop clearer and more confident spoken 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 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.
Communication
- Talking about habits, expressing frequency, asking for and giving the time
- Learning how to get by in bars and restaurants
- Asking for and giving information about food
- Talking about eating habits
- Describing places, expressing existence and location
- Talking about climate and the weather
Grammar
- The presente de indicative of irregular verbs
- Pronominal verbs
- Yo también / yo tampoco / yo si /yo no
- Primero / después / luego
- Verbs: poner, traer, estar
- Direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las)
- Uses of de, con, hay
- The superlative
- Quantifiers: muy / mucho / mucha / muchos / muchas; qué, cuál / cuá, cuáantos / cuántas, dónde, cómo
Phonetics
- Accentuation
- Intonation: narration and enumeration
- che and jota
Vocabulary
- Days of the week, times of day, daily activities
- Food, ways of cooking, utensils and recipients
- Typical dishes in Spain and Latin America
- Climate and weather, geography
- Information about countries
- Cardinal points, seasons
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Communicate in Spanish about daily routines, habits, and time in everyday situations.
- Interact in common social contexts such as cafés and restaurants while discussing food and eating habits.
- Use basic Spanish pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar structures to describe places, talk about the weather, and participate in simple conversations about everyday life.
