Pre-Intermediate 1: January 2025 Wednesdays 6.15-7.45 pm

£189.00

Starting Wednesday 15th January 2025
Format: face-to-face on site
Location: ‘Rock Cottage’ (240-248 West Street, BS3 3NE)
Duration: 10 weeks (with a break for half-term)
Day/Time: Wednesdays 6.15-7.45 pm
Duration of each session: 1h 30min
CEFR Level: B1.1 Part A
Fee: £169 Early Bird (book before 24th November) / £189 afterwards

Course book: Gente Hoy 2 – Libro del alumno (Spanish edition 2014). Not included in the course fee. Approximate price £30-35 brand new. Can be purchased at Languages Direct, Waterstones or Amazon (first hand or second hand). This book is used for levels Pre-Intermediate 1, Pre-Intermediate 2, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2.

This course is suitable for students with a solid Elementary level of Spanish (i.e. have attended a full Elementary course, have learned how to use Present and Past Tenses, can understand basic conversations, respond to basic questions and engage in basic conversation. Students joining this course should have previously covered most of the content in our Elementary 2 course programme.

The level B1.1 refers to the European CEFR levels, and is similar to a UK post-GCSE level of Spanish.

COURSE INFORMATION

In this course you will have the chance to…

  • Meet new people with a common interest and have fun learning together ☺
  • Have face to face conversations in Spanish with the tutor and classmates
  • Continue developing your listening, speaking, interacting, reading and writing skills
  • Expanding your knowledge of Spanish to an B1.1 level of the CEFR
  • Develop your speaking and interacting skills using a range of verb tenses.

By the end of the course you will have acquired the necessary language skills to understand a native speaker talking to you at a moderated native pace and about a range of topics. You will also be able to talk with confidence about those topics, using different verb tenses.

After completing this course, students will be able to continue with their Spanish studies by joining the Pre-Intermediate 2 course (B1.1 Part 2).

See course programme, course book and T&Cs below.

If you have any questions about this course, please email maria@spanishcoursesbristol.co.uk

* CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference for languages

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Course book: Gente Hoy 2 – Libro del alumno (Spanish edition 2014). Not included in the course fee. Approximate price £30-35 brand new. Can be purchased at Languages Direct, Waterstones or Amazon (first hand or second hand). This book is used for levels Pre-Intermediate 1, Pre-Intermediate 2, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2.

 

Approximate course programme:

1 Repaso del curso anterior: presente verbos irregulares, objeto directo/indirecto, pasados, imperativo, ser y estar

 

At home: Revisad lo aprendido en el curso anterior
2 Unit 0: Gente en clase

-Verbos Valer y costar

-Valorar actividades y dificultades

Ejercicios 3 y 5

 

At home: ejercicio 4 pág 17
3 Unit 0: Gente en clase

-Por y para

Ejercicio 2 + material adicional

 

Unit 1: Gente que se conoce

-Video introducción

 

At home: WordDoc por/para
4 Unit 1: Gente que se conoce (1)

 

-Dar y pedir información sobre personas. Hablar de:

– carácter

– virtudes y defectos

– gustos, aficiones, manías…

– ámbitos personales

-Verbo gustar y otros que se conjugan igual

-Uso de “lo” para resaltar un aspecto

 

Ejercicio 1 A y B

Ejercicio 2

 

At home: Leer texto “Gente con premios” + ejercicio 8 A y B y ejercicio 9
5 Unit 1: Gente que se conoce (2)

-Seguimos hablando del carácter

-El condicional

 

Ejercicio 1 C y D

Ejercicio 3

 

At home: ejercicio 5 y 6 B
6 Unit 1: Gente que se conoce (3)

–Trabajamos con el condicional

-Frases interrogativas directas e indirectas

 

Ejercicios 6 y 7

 

At home: Repasad todo lo visto hasta ahora
7 Unit 2: Gente que lo pasa bien (1)

–Video introducción

-Nos ponemos de acuerdo

–Speaking practice

 

At home: ejercicios 8, 9, 10 A y 11
8

 

 Unit 2: Gente que lo pasa bien (2)

-Valoramos y describimos espectáculos

-Superlativo

-Speaking practice

 

At home: ejercicios 12 y 13
9

 

 Unit 2: Gente que lo pasa bien (3)

-Quedar / quedarse

-Deseamos hacer algo

-Speaking practice

 

 

At home: Revisad todo lo aprendido en este curso
10 Revision, games, quizzes and end of course drinks

Terms & Conditions

  • There will be a maximum of 15 students in the class.
  • The course materials included in the price are any materials used in class (i.e. handouts, games, PDFs, Power Points, audio files and links to online activities), which will be sent by email as well.
  • Students will have to purchase a course book which costs around £25 new (but second hand copies of the book are accepted). The book covers levels Beginner 1, Beginner 2, Elementary 1 and Elementary 2.
  • The course fee paid for this course is not transferrable to any future courses.
  • Missed classes policy: if a student misses one or more classes, the teacher will send them an email with the learning materials used in class during those sessions so they can catch up at home. It is the student’s responsibility to catch up and continue attending their course. Missed lessons will not be refunded. Students who have missed a considerable number of lessons cannot automatically retake this lessons in the next term as the fee paid is for the current course only. However, the school may offer them the opportunity to retake the lessons if, after the enrolment period has finished, some of the places have not been filled.
  • Cancellation policy: if a student wishes to withdraw from the course, they must notify SCB by email. With 2 weeks notice or more, full refund. With 1 week notice, 50 % refund. With less than 1 week notice, no refund.
  • For the course to go ahead, a minimum of 6 students is required. If the week before the course starts a group has less than 6 students registered, that group may have to be cancelled and registered students will receive a full refund. Alternatively, the course can still go ahead, but the fee will have to be increased.
  • This course does not lead to an official certificate; students can register for official DELE or GCSE exams independently. SCB can advise on where to take the exams and offer additional exam preparation classes.

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