Spanish Pre Intermediate

Participation in our evening classes provides far more than the opportunity to learn new skills but also numerous benefits to our mental health and wellbeing. Evening classes are known to lower stress levels, improve confidence, increase social integration, contribute to personal growth and lifelong learning to name just a few advantages.

This course is for those that completed Spanish Beginners during the previous academic year or already have a basic knowledge of the language and wish to progress and further develop their knowledge and understanding of Spanish. You should already understand sentences and commonly used expressions relating to personal and family information, shopping, work and your local area. You should also be able to interact in basic routine situations requiring a simple and direct exchange of information and be able to describe your own background and education, immediate surroundings and matters relating to immediate needs.

Throughout the year you will build upon basic skills and learn to handle more complex situations relating to daily life; understand and use common expressions; talk about past experiences; express needs and participate in simple conversations on familiar topics as detailed below.

Key communicative skills

• Describing daily routines, habits, and household chores.
• Shopping & Food: buying groceries and discussing prices.
• Describing people physically
• Expressing basic likes/dislikes 
• Taking public transport, and buying tickets.
• Talking about past experiences and simple anecdotes
• Describing basic future plans

Core grammar

• Consolidate present tense for regular and some irregular verbs
• Reflexive verbs
• Basic past tenses 
• Near future- going to
• Comparatives