Continue developing your beginner Spanish fluency and confidence with our Beginner Spanish: A2.3 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Spanish: A2.2 Course or have approximately 120 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 greeting people in different situations, making requests and asking for favours, giving or asking for permission, explaining reasons or excuses, and talking about food and eating habits. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context to help you describe ongoing actions, make polite requests, explain situations, and talk about everyday activities using a wider range of verbs and sentence structures. Phonetics is integrated throughout the course, with focused practice on the intonation of requests and explanations as well as pronunciation features such as seseo and yeísmo 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 2 A2 Edicion Hibrida Libro del Alumno (Difusion: 2022), ISBN: 9788419236067
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
- Behave in specific situations: greetings, presentations
- Ask for things, actions and favours
- Ask for and give permission, make excuses and justify
- Talk about tastes and eating habits, explain how a dish is prepared
Grammar
- Gerund (regular and irregular); Estar + gerund
- The conditional of poder and importer
- Direct obhect personal pronouns
- Forms with se; Some uses of ser and estar
- y, pero, adremis; soler + infinitive
Phonetics
- The intonation of requests and justifications
- Seísmo and sheísmo
Vocabulary
- Greetings and farewells
- Verbs of politeness: poder, importer, ayudar
- dar, dejar and prestart
- paner, pasar and tener
- Food, recipes, weights and measures
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Communicate in Spanish in social situations such as greeting people, making requests, and asking for or giving permission.
- Talk about food, eating habits, and simple recipes while explaining actions and everyday situations.
- Use basic Spanish pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar structures to participate in conversations involving requests, explanations, and daily activities.
