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 strengthen your communication skills for everyday situations while deepening your understanding of Spanish grammar and vocabulary, making it ideal for learners wanting to learn the Spanish language for travel, work, or personal enrichment in a supportive, interactive learning environment.
You will learn to combine past tenses to refer to events with precision, tell stories and legends, convey requests and warnings, make predictions about the future, and analyse environmental issues by presenting their causes and consequences clearly. Grammar is taught in context, including covering time markers such as justo cuando and entonces, uses of the imperfect (indicative and subjunctive), gerunds, adjective position, the future perfect, time clauses (mientras, hasta que, en cuanto, antes de que, después de que), and cohesive devices for structuring texts. Vocabulary practice includes natural disasters, environmental issues, the history of cities, sports, and language resources for text cohesion, including nominalisation and lexical relationships such as synonyms and hypernyms, helping you to support clearer, more natural communication in 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 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.
Communication
Combine past tenses
Refer to past events
Convey requests and warnings
Tell stories (tales, legends, etc.)
Make predictions about the future
Analyse and present environmental issues (causes and consequences)
Structure and organise texts coherently
Grammar
Time markers and structures: justo cuando, entonces…
Uses of the imperfect (indicative and subjunctive)
Uses of the gerund
Position of adjectives
Future perfect
Time clauses with 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 resources for text cohesion: synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms
Nominalisation
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Narrate and connect past events with clarity and coherence, combining past tenses effectively, telling stories and legends, referring to historical events, and structuring texts using appropriate time markers and cohesive devices.
- Use advanced grammatical structures to express sequence, prediction, and analysis, including the imperfect (indicative and subjunctive), gerunds, future perfect, time clauses (mientras, hasta que, en cuanto, antes de que, después de que), adjective position, and cohesive language for organising ideas.
- Expand vocabulary and improve discourse skills, developing language related to natural disasters, environmental issues, historical events, cities, and sports, while using nominalisation, synonyms, hypernyms, and hyponyms to present causes and consequences clearly and persuasively.
