Spanish B1 course: intermediate

Spanish syllabusB1: learning goals

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B1.1: Talking on the phone:

1. Learn to have professional phone conversations.
2. Making polite requests and express urgency over the phone.
3. Formal affirmative imperative: "usted" y "ustedes"
4. El futuro simple: expressing probability

B1.2: Writing e-mails and letters:

1. How to write e-mails and letters (formal and informal)
2. Present subjunctive: sensations and feelings

B1.3: What's on the television?:

1. Discuss different types of television programs.
2. Discuss what you saw on television.
3. Presente de subjuntivo: express wishes and wills

B1.4: Negotation at a conference:

1. Talk about business conferences or networking events.
2. Introduce yourself professionaly.
3. Present subjunctive: opinions and recommendations

B1.5: Negotiations:

1. Solve disagreements and make discussions.
2. Subjunctive (present): opinions and recommendations

B1.6: This is unfair!:

1. Learn how to put a complaint in a constructive manner
2. Present subjunctive: probability and hypothesis

B1.7: Let's debate!:

1. Give your opinion and engage in discussions
2. Make your point with arguments
3. Verbs to express feelings with the indicative and subjunctive

B1.8: Newspapers and magazines:

1. Newspapers and magazine's vocabulary
2. Written and digital press

B1.9: Advertising and publicity:

1. Different forms of advertising
2. Traditional and modern publicity

B1.10: Movies and genres:

1. Vocabulary on movies and genres
2. Movie streaming concepts

B1.11: Radio and podcasts:

1. Vocabulary on radio
2. Podcasts and streaming platforms
3. Imperfect and preterite: past tenses

B1.12: Music: yesterday and today:

1. Music vocabulary and concepts
2. Music streaming platforms
3. Past imperfect of irregular verbs: "ser, ir, ver"

B1.13: The social media era:

1. Everyday concepts of social media platforms
2. Present Perfect Indicative: Morphology and Uses

B1.14: Browsing the web:

1. Basic usage of the web and the Internet
2. Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo: morphology and uses

B1.15: Travel aspirations:

1. Sharing future travel dreams.
2. Condicional simple

B1.16: Ideal habits and values:

1. Talk about the habits and values you wish for.
2. Condicional posible (valor de presente)

B1.17: Awaiting passions:

1. Talk about the passions and hobbies you wish to pursue.
2. Talk about what is stopping you.
3. Condicional posible (valor de futuro)

B1.18: Occupation: expectations and reality:

1. Share your work expectations and contrast with your reality.
2. Condicional compuesto de indicativo

B1.19: Desires and wishes:

1. Talk about unfullfilled wishes and desires.
2. The negative imperative: irregular verbs

B1.20: Happy and difficult times:

1. Reflect on happy and difficult life events.
2. Simple Future vs. Future Perfect: Morphology and Uses

B1.21: Legacy and tribute:

1. Talk about the legacy you want to leave behind.

B1.22: Anatomy:

1. Learn the body parts in detail.

B1.23: Doctor check up:

1. Asking for a medical appointment.
2. Getting a doctor check up.
3. La voz pasiva: objeto indirecto

B1.24: Specialisted doctors:

1. Talk about your experiences with different specialists.
2. Opinion verbs: creer, pensar, ...

B1.25: At the farmacy:

1. Discussing symptoms with your doctor.
2. Asking for a medicine at the farmacy.

B1.26: Nutrition and diet:

1. Talk about the nutrients and components of foods.
2. Talk about your daily food diet.

B1.27: Self-care and mindfulness:

1. Talking about your mental health and selfcare.
2. Going to therapy and mindfulness retreats.
3. Contrast between "porque" and "para"

B1.28: Healthy and unhealthy habits:

1. Discuss healthy and unhealthy habits from your life.
2. Indefinite pronouns "algo" and "alguien"

B1.29: Injuries and pains:

1. Talk about body pains and common injuries.

B1.30: Personal budget:

1. Talk about your personal finances.
2. Noun subordinate clauses: infinitive and conjugated

B1.31: Retirement plans:

1. Planning your retirement.
2. The verb "Estar" + Gerund to talk about the future
3. Adverbial subordinate clauses of: place, manner, cause, purpose

B1.32: Insurances:

1. Manage your house, car and other insurances.
2. Consecutive adverbial subordinate clauses of indicative and subjunctive

B1.33: Unemployment:

1. Getting fired from work.
2. Temporal adverbial subordinate clauses I

B1.34: Relationships and break-ups:

1. Navigating hard moments in relationships.
2. Breakups, divorce and heritage.
3. Temporal adverbial (subordinate) clauses II

B1.35: Perceptions and actions:

1. Take responsibility for your own feelings and actions.
2. Structures for expressing gratitude and apology

B1.36: Becoming parents:

1. Being a mother or father for the first time.
2. Verbs "estar" and "ser": advanced uses

B1.37: Big life changes:

1. Talk about big life changes.

B1.38: Relocating:

1. Manage vocabulary about relocating for work or study.
2. Relative and interrogative adverbs: dónde, cuándo y cómo

B1.39: Houseviewing:

1. Find a new place to live.
2. Vocabulary for buying and renting a place.
3. Relative pronouns (el que, quien, cuyo)

B1.40: Language barrier:

1. Use key phrases for overcoming language barriers.
2. Discuss the difficulties of learning a new language.
3. Uses of "se" in Spanish

B1.41: Culture shock:

1. Superando las barreras del choque cultural

B1.42: A new routine:

1. Starting a new job overseas.
2. Having new habits.
3. Connectors: ya, además, todavía,...

B1.43: Integration and social network:

1. Conversar con personas nuevas

B1.44: Homesickness:

1. Express feelings coming from homesickness.
2. Discuss strategies for coping with homesickness.
3. Prepositional phrases: talking about activities

B1.45: Handling bureaucracy:

1. Managing administrative procedures.