Continue developing your intermediate Spanish fluency and confidence with our Intermediate Spanish: B2.4 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate Spanish: B2.3 Course or have approximately 360 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 describe movements, body posture, and physical actions, give instructions, talk about feelings and moods, and express intention or purpose naturally. The course also helps you refer to promises in indirect speech, claim the fulfilment of commitments, and navigate conversations about conflict. Grammar is taught in context, including descriptive structures using adjectives, gerunds, adverbs, and prepositional clauses; pronominal verbs; para + infinitive and the present or imperfect subjunctive for expressing purpose; indirect speech; the use of se to describe involuntary actions; and explanatory expressions such as es que and no es que… lo que pasa es que…. Vocabulary practice includes parts of the body, posture, gestures, emotional states, attitudes, adjectives with prefixes, and expressions for intentional or accidental actions such as hacer algo a propósito and hacer algo sin querer helping you use intermediate Spanish more confidently and naturally in real-life situations.

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 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

• Describe activities and movements
• Give instructions
• Talk about body posture
• Express feelings and mood, purpose, intention
• To refer to a promise in indirect speech
• Claim the compliance of a commitment
• Talk about conflicts

Grammar

• Describe actions with adjectives, gerunds, adverbs, prepositional clauses, etc
• Pronominal verbs
• para + infinitive / present or imperfect subjunctive
• Indirect speech
• "Se" to express involuntary actions.
• "Es que", "no es que..., lo que pasa es que..."

Vocabulary

• Parts of the body
• Body posture
• Body and face movements
• Feelings, attitudes and moods (sentir and sentirse, poner and ponerse, quedar and quedarse)
• Adjective with prefixes
• Indefinite article in front of adjectives
• Hacer algo a propósito / adrede (do something in purpose)
• Hacer algo sin querer (do something involuntarily)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Describe physical actions, movements, and body posture, give clear instructions, and express feelings, moods, intentions, and purposes using a range of descriptive structures.
2. Report promises and commitments in indirect speech, express involuntary actions with se, and explain or justify situations using expressions such as es que and no es que… lo que pasa es que….
3. Talk about conflicts and emotional reactions, using pronominal verbs, adjective formation with prefixes, and vocabulary related to the body, gestures, feelings, attitudes, and intentional or accidental actions.