Spanish course - L2023B1ki
Conversation and practice B1
Day
Monday, Wednesday
Lesson length
90 minutes
Lessons
16 lessons
Course code
L2023B1ki
Teacher
First lesson
10 Jul 2023
Last lesson
30 Aug 2023
Start
18:30
End
20:00
Starting level
Finishing level
Places available
0 z 6
Coursebook
Materials provided by the teacher
Course fee
259 €
Course enrolment
Closed
Course content
B1The course is practice and conversation at level B1. It assumes the knowledge and skills of levels B1.1, B1.2 and B1.3.
In terms of content, the course forms part of the preparation for language exams recognised by the Czech Ministry of Education.
Knowledge expected
Level B1
Skills
- Structuring written and spoken texts
- Expressing consequence
- Expressing purpose
- Assessing and expressing an opinion
- Emphasising a point, arguing a case
- Describing and defining
- Identifying objects, places and people and giving further details
- Asking whether someone knows a person or a thing
- Asking for something specific
- Linking two points in time
- Expressing the moment when an action takes place
- Talking about a moment in the future
- Explaining the reason for and the point of an action
- Correcting what someone else got wrong
- Defending an opinion
- Explaining, apologising and making excuses
- Expressing boredom and resignation
- Regretting something, complaining
- Calming and reassuring someone
- Writing a formal letter
- Expressing gratitude and responding to it
- Offering help, a service, an idea
- Congratulating and apologising
- Turning down an offer or an invitation
Grammar
- Using quizás + subjunctive
- Using a lo mejor + indicative
- The pronouns and adjectives algún, ningún...
- Phrases taking the subjunctive
- Using lo + más/menos + adjective
- Expressions for structuring a text
- Emphasis on object pronouns
- Subordinate clauses
- Differences between the indicative and the subjunctive
- Después de / antes de + infinitive
- Cuando / después de que + indicative or subjunctive
- Hasta que + indicative/subjunctive
- Antes de que + subjunctive
- The past subjunctive and its uses
- Querer + que + subjunctive
- The difference between the present and the past subjunctive
- Gracias por + simple/compound infinitive
Vocabulary
- Connectors in subordinate clauses
- Argumentative connectors in speech
- Ecology
- Describing a person and an object
- Fashion
- Stages of life
- Habits and bad habits
- Note, email, formal letter, memo
- Health and appearance
- Shopping
- Differences in vocabulary between Spain and Latin America
- The world of work in Spain
- Business expressions
- Formal and polite language
- Cultural knowledge from different countries and regions
Which coursebook do we use?
The course uses materials provided by the teacher.
Course teacher
Adolfo García Jiménez
general Spanish, Spanish for children, grammar, conversation
