SPANISH INTERMEDIATE 5. The FIRTH segment of the comprehensive Intermediate level five-course series designed for adult learners.

An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Intermediate 5 level description:

Spanish Intermediate 5 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Intermediate 4 or possess a similar level of proficiency.

Here's an overview of the topics covered in Intermediate 5:

COMMUNICATION: Describe the characteristics and functioning of something, give opinions about objects, evaluate situations and facts, comment on actions and behaviors, make hypotheses and conjectures, narrate mysterious events, and express degrees of certainty.

GRAMMAR: Superlatives ending in -ísimo/-a/-os/-as, some modifiers of adjectives: excesivamente, demasiado, exclamatory phrases: ¡qué...!, ¡qué... tan/mas...!, relative clauses with prepositions, the use of the indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses, me parece bien/mal/injusto/ilógico...que + the present subjunctive, está bien /mal que + the present subjunctive, the conditional, lo de + infinitive/noun, some uses of the simple future and the conditional, constructions in the indicative and subjunctive to express different degrees of certainty.

VOCABULARY: Vocabulary to describe objects (material forms), vocabulary to evaluate the design of objects, environment, solidarity, creer algo/creerse algo/creer en algo, mysterious events and paranormal phenomena, psychology, science.

Next level: Spanish High Intermediate 1.

SPANISH BEGINNER 2. The SECOND segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.

An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Beginner 2 level description:

This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 1 course or have some minimal experience with the Spanish language. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.

Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 2:

COMMUNICATION: Expressing intentions, explaining the motivations for what you do, talking about what you do in different languages, describing places, expressing existence and location, talking about climate and the weather.

GRAMMAR: Gender, definite articles (el, la, los, las) and indefinite articles (un, una, unos, unas), the presente de indicativo, regular verbs ending in -ar, -er, -ir, uses of por, para and porque, uses of hay, the verb estar, the superlative, quantifiers: muy, mucho/mucha/muchos/muchas, qué, cuál, cuáles, cuántos/cuántas, dónde, cómo.

VOCABULARY: Languages, activities in language class, leisure activities, climate and the weather, geography, information about countries, cardinal points, seasons.

PHONETICS: Connectors, accentuation.

Next level: Spanish Beginner 3.

SPANISH ADVANCED 4. The FOURTH segment of the comprehensive Advanced level five-course series designed for adult learners.

An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Spanish Advanced 4 level description:

Spanish Advanced 4 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Advanced 3 or possess a similar level of proficiency.

Here's an overview of the topics covered in Advanced 4:

COMMUNICATION: Make predictions about the future, analyze and expose problems related to the environment (their causes and consequences), cohere texts.

GRAMMAR: The past perfect subjunctive, termporary constructions with mientras, hasta (que), en cuanto, antes de (que), después de (que), resources to cohere texts: dicho / -a/-os/-as, el citado/-a/-os/-as, tal.

VOCABULARY: Enviromental vocabulary, resources to cohere texts: use of synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, pronouns, nominalization.

Next level: Spanish Advanced 5.

SPANISH BEGINNER 3. The THIRD segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.

 An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Beginner 3 level description:

This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 2 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.

Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 3:

COMMUNICATION: Identifying items, expressing needs, buying in shops, asking for products, asking about prices, etc., talking about preferences, talking about physical appearance and personality, expressing and comparing likes, dislikes and interests, asking about likes and dislikes, talking about personal relationships.

GRAMMAR: demonstratives: este/esta/estos/estas, esto, el/la/los + adjective, que + noun, cuál/cuáles, tener que + infinitive, the verbs ir and preferir, the verb gustar, quantifiers (muy, bastante, un poco), possessives, también/tampoco, diacritical accents.

VOCABULARY: numbers over 100, colours, clothes and accessories, objects in daily use, uses of the verb llevar, combinations with the verb ir, family, personality adjectives, music.

PHONETICS: the erre, intonation in questions.

Next level: Spanish Beginner 4.