Intermediate Spanish Face-to-Face Courses

Spanish Level 13 | Evenings

  • Course Details

Spanish Level 13 is an Intermediate Spanish course for students who have studied the Spanish language to a fairly high level. Spanish Level 13 requires that you have previously studied Spanish Level 12 or a course of at least 144 class hours. 

Our Spanish language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

 

Course Content

Communicative aims

  • Expressing prohibition, obligation, and impersonality
  • Talking about habits in the present
  • Giving opinions and advice
  • Narrating past experiences
  • Discussing the beginning and duration of an action
  • Locating an action in time

 

Linguistic aims

  • Lo normal / lo habitual / lo raro es + infinitive
  • Soler + infinitive
  • Quantifiers: todos / todo el mundo /nadie…
  • Está prohibido / permitido …
  • Se prohíbe/n, se permite/n
  • The verb ‘dejar’
  • Paraphrases: empezar a / acabar de / terminar de / volver a / dejar de + infinitive, llevar/seguir + gerund
  • Desde / desde que / desde hace
  • Vocabulary:
    • Social customs in the workplace
    • Expressions with “ser” and “estar” to talk about norms and habits
    • Describing your job
    • Describing facts of a person’s life

 

Coursebook

Aula Internacional 3

Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.

 

This language course includes

  • Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
  • Support and advice from Spanish language teachers
  • Spanish language study tips
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Spanish Level 14 | Evenings

  • Course Details

Spanish Level 14 is an Intermediate Spanish course for students who have studied the Spanish language to a fairly high level. Spanish Level 14 requires that you have previously studied Spanish Level 13 or a course of at least 156 class hours. 

Our Spanish language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

 

Course Content

Communication Points

  • Talking about future actions and situations

  • Expressing conditions
  • Expressing hypotheses about the future
  • Narrate using the present tense
  • Summarise a book or a film
  • Understand jokes in Spanish

 

Grammar Points

  • Si + present indicative, future

  • The simple future tense
  • The expressions ‘seguramente / seguro que / probablemente’ + future tense
  • Time markers
  • The use of ‘cada vez más / menos’
  • Connectives to narrate a story ‘ (y) entonces, al final, de repente, de pronto etc..’
  • The use of ‘porque, como, pero, aunque, sin embargo’
  • The forms and uses of the object-direct and object-indirect pronouns

 

Vocabulary

  • Challenges of the future

  • Technology and science
  • Genres of movies, TV shows, literature and entertainment
  • Verbs related to the act of speaking

 

Based on Aula Internacional 3

* To be able to enroll for this level you should be familiar with the pretérito indefinido, pretérito perfecto and pretérito imperfecto.

 

This language course includes

  • Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
  • Support and advice from Spanish language teachers
  • Spanish language study tips
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Spanish Level 15 | Evenings

  • Course Details

Spanish Level 15 is an Intermediate Spanish course for students who have studied the Spanish language to a fairly high level. Spanish Level 15 requires that you have previously studied Spanish Level 14 or a course of at least 168 class hours. 

Our Spanish language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

 

Course Content

COMMUNICATION POINTS 

Giving recommendations and advice

Describing an advertisement

Expressing a wish, a complain and a necessity

Suggesting solutions

Writing a letter of complain

 

GRAMMAR POINTS 

The imperative and some of its use in the affirmative and negative form

The position in the sentence of the reflexive pronouns and the object direct and indirect pronouns

Present subjunctive ‘querer/pedir/necesitar + infinitivo’ – ‘querer/pedir/necesitar que + subjuntivo’ – ‘deberían/habría que ..cuando + subjuntivo’

 

VOCABULARY 

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Describing structures

Aspects of social and administrative life

Social activism

 

Coursebook

Aula Internacional 3

*Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.

 

This language course includes

  • Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
  • Support and advice from Spanish language teachers
  • Spanish language study tips
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Spanish Level 16 | Evenings

  • Course Details

Spanish Level 16 is an Intermediate Spanish course for students who have studied the Spanish language to a fairly high level.  Spanish Level 16 requires that you have previously studied Spanish Level 15 or a course of at least 180 class hours. 

Our Spanish language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

 

Course Content

Communication Points

– Communicate by phone

–Transmit messages, orders, requests, and advice

– Tell anecdotes

– Talk about causes and consequences

 

Grammar Points

– Indirect style

– Combine past tenses in a narrative (present perfect, preterite, imperfect)

–  Past perfect tense

– Connectors to talk about cause and consequence (such as, because, so, in such a way that…)

– Expresar diferentes grados de seguridad en indicativo y subjuntivo

 

Vocabulary

– Verbs that summarise the intention of a message (ask, recommend, etc.)

– Travel

– Types of tourism

 

* To be able to enroll for this level you should be familiar with the pretérito indefinido,  Pretérito perfecto and pretérito imperfecto.

 

Course book

Aula Internacional 3

 

This language course includes

  • Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
  • Support and advice from Spanish language teachers
  • Spanish language study tips
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Spanish Level 17 | Evenings

  • Course Details

Spanish Level 17 is an Intermediate Spanish course for students who have studied the Spanish language to a fairly high level.  Spanish Level 17 requires that you have previously studied Spanish Level 16 or a course of at least 192 class hours. 

Our Spanish language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

 

Course Content

COMMUNICATION POINTS

– Expresar intereses y sentimientos

– Hablar de las relaciones entre personas

– Mostrar acuerdo y desacuerdo

– Describir las características y el funcionamiento de algo

– Opinar sobre objetos

 

GRAMMAR POINTS

– Me fascina/ me encanta/ odio/ no aguanto… que + subjuntivo

– Me fascina/ me encanta/ odio/ no aguanto… que + sustantivo/ infinitivo

– Los superlativos

– Uso del indicativo y del subjuntivo en frases relativas

– Frases exclamativas

 

VOCABULARY

– Verbos para expresar sentimientos, intereses y sensaciones

– Adjetivos para describir el carácter de las personas

– Describir objetos (formas, materiales…)

– Valorar el diseño de objetos

 

* To be able to enroll for this level you should be familiar with the past tenses and some uses 

 of the presente de subjuntivo.  

 

Course book

Aula Internacional Plus 3 – Libro del alumno B1 – Units 9&10

ISBN: 978-8418032226

 

This language course includes

  • Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
  • Support and advice from Spanish language teachers
  • Spanish language study tips
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Spanish Level 18 | Evenings

  • Course Details

Spanish Level 18 is an Intermediate Spanish course for students who have studied the Spanish language to a fairly high level.  Spanish Level 18 requires that you have previously studied Spanish Level 17 or a course of at least 204 class hours. 

Our Spanish language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

 

Course Content

Communication Points

– Expresar gustos y preferencias 

– Plantear situaciones hipotéticas 

– Pedir permiso, darlo y denegarlo 

– Expresar interés, curiosidad y sorpresa 

– Datos sobre algunos países hispanohablantes 

 

Grammar Points

– Revisión frases sustantivas con subjuntivo. 

– Te importa/ molesta… que + subjuntivo 

– Te importa/ molesta… si + indicativo 

– Me sorprende/ parece curioso/ llama la atención… que + subjuntivo 

– Sustantivos y verbos : –ción, –cción, -aje, -miento, etc.  

– Revisión usos del presente de subjuntivo nivel B1 

 

Vocabulary

– La convivencia 

– Economía y política 

– Bienestar y felicidad 

– Verbos de cambio y evolución 

 

Course book

Aula Internacional 3

 

This language course includes

  • Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
  • Support and advice from Spanish language teachers
  • Spanish language study tips
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