Level 5 Classes: This course suits people who have recently completed Level 4, or those who already have a solid foundation in Spanish. It will allow them to communicate quite confidently about themselves, their environment, their past, and their future plans. This level will help you communicate with greater confidence about topics that go beyond your immediate environment, and to formulate your opinion on certain topics. In Level 5, we will work at the B1 level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Term duration 10 x weekly 2-hour classes, Wednesday evenings, 6:15pm to 8:15pm
Communicative themes may include:
Giving and understanding instructions to use everyday household or office devices and appliances.
Understanding and writing simple recipes using Giving and following step-by-step.
Giving and receiving informal advice. Suggesting what someone should or shouldn’t do.
Expressing wishes and desires using common verbs and expressions.
Describing personality and relationships: Talking about the personality of close people and describing the nature of relationships.
Expressing and understanding feelings: Talking about personal feelings and responding to others in both positive and negative emotional contexts.
Handling work-related communication: Writing a basic CV, preparing for and taking part in a job interview, or writing a job advertisement. Being able to ask and answer questions about work experience, skills, and preferences. Understanding cultural expectations in the Spanish-speaking work contexts.
Making future plans and arrangements.
Talking about the uncertain future: Expressing hopes, dreams, and intentions related to personal and social topics.
Key grammatical points covered may include:
Affirmative and negative imperative (regular and irregular verbs): ¡Sigue las instrucciones del manual! No uses el microondas sin supervisión.
Present subjunctive with expressions of desire: Espero que tengas un buen día.
Desire verbs + subjunctive (e.g. querer, desear, esperar): Quiero que me llames esta noche.
Direct and indirect object pronouns in desire expressions: Te deseo mucha suerte.
Pronominal verbs to express feelings (e.g. me da, me pone, me cae): Me pone nervioso hablar en público.
Compound infinitive (for completed past actions in subordinate clauses): Después de haber terminado el informe, se fue a casa.
Relative clauses with unknown antecedent: Busco a alguien que sepa hablar francés.
Simple future (for plans and arrangements): El año próximo e iré a Gales.
Simple conditional (for hopes, dreams, and intentions): Me gustaría ganar más dinero.
