Spanish B1 course: intermediate

Spanish syllabusB1: learning goals

Your teacher adapts the learning plan to your needs.

B1.1: Talking on the phone:

1. Learn to have phone conversations
2. Telefónica: The telephone revolution
3. Presente de subjuntivo: regular verbs

B1.2: Writing e-mails and letters:

1. How to write e-mails and letters (formal and informal)
2. Correos: The postal service of Spain
3. Present subjunctive: sensations and feelings

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

1. Discuss television programs
2. Los Serrano: The show that impacted television
3. Presente de subjuntivo: express wishes and wills

B1.4: Boardroom banter:

1. Talk about business conferences or networking events
2. La Feria Internacional de Turismo (FITUR) in Madrid
3. Present subjunctive: opinions and recommendations

B1.5: Managing problems:

1. How to find a solution to a problem
2. Everyday disagreements or problem-solving in customer service situations
3. The Ombudsman: resolving conflicts since 1978
4. 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
3. The role of the Spanish press during the democratic Transition (1975-1982)

B1.9: Advertising and publicity:

1. Different forms of advertising
2. Traditional and modern publicity
3. The newspaper "El País" and the iconic adverts of the 1980s

B1.10: Movies and genres:

1. Vocabulary on movies and genres
2. Movie streaming concepts
3. San Sebastián International Film Festival

B1.11: Radio and podcasts:

1. Vocabulary on radio
2. Podcasts and streaming platforms
3. Iñaki Gabilondo and the success of "Hoy por Hoy"
4. Imperfect and preterite: past tenses

B1.12: Music: yesterday and today:

1. Music vocabulary and concepts
2. Music streaming platforms
3. Paco de Lucía and Camarón de la Isla: the revolution of flamenco
4. Past imperfect of irregular verbs: "ser, ir, ver"

B1.13: The social media era:

1. Everyday concepts of social media platforms
2. The phenomenon of influencers in Spain and Andorra
3. Present Perfect Indicative: Morphology and Uses

B1.14: Browsing the web:

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

B1.15: Travel aspirations:

1. Sharing future travel dreams.
2. Adventure on Mulhacén Peak: The Summit of Sierra Nevada
3. Condicional simple

B1.16: Ideal habits and values:

1. Talk about the habits and values you wish for.
2. El Almuerzo Valenciano
3. 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. El Trinquet: Passion for the Pilota Valenciana
4. Condicional posible (valor de futuro)

B1.18: Occupation: expectations and reality:

1. Share your work expectations and contrast with your reality.
2. Diego Velázquez, established painter of Spain
3. Condicional compuesto de indicativo

B1.19: Desires and wishes:

1. Talk about unfullfilled wishes and desires.

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.
2. "La Venus del Espejo", by Velázquez

B1.23: Doctor check up:

1. Asking for a medical appointment.
2. Getting a doctor check up.
3. The health center in Spain: How does public healthcare work?
4. La voz pasiva: objeto indirecto

B1.24: Specialisted doctors:

1. Talk about your experiences with different specialists.
2. Ramón y Cajal, the forest of neurons
3. 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. Nature as therapy in the Picos de Europa and Pyrenees
4. Contrast between "porque" and "para"

B1.28: Healthy and unhealthy habits:

1. Discuss healthy and unhealthy habits from your life.
2. La Ruta del Bakalao (music, partying and excess in the 80s).
3. Indefinite pronouns "algo" and "alguien"

B1.29: Injuries and pains:

1. Talk about body pains and common injuries.
2. Rafael Nadal: The Warrior of Spanish Tennis

B1.30: Personal budget:

1. Talk about your personal finances.
2. The manager and the bank account
3. Noun subordinate clauses: infinitive and conjugated

B1.31: Retirement plans:

1. Planning your retirement.
2. The retirement paradise: foreigners on the Spanish coast
3. Adverbial subordinate clauses of: place, manner, cause, purpose

B1.32: Insurances:

1. Manage your house, car and other insurances.
2. Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros
3. Consecutive adverbial subordinate clauses of indicative and subjunctive

B1.33: Unemployment:

1. Getting fired from work.
2. What to do after losing your job?: SEPE and unemployment
3. Temporal adverbial subordinate clauses I

B1.34: Relationships and break-ups:

1. Navigating hard moments in relationships.
2. Breakups, divorce and heritage.
3. Inheritances in Spain: How do they work?
4. Temporal adverbial (subordinate) clauses II

B1.35: Perceptions and actions:

1. Take responsibility for your own feelings and actions.
2. Hacienda and tax return
3. 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.
2. Registration and residency, the basics for living in Spain

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. When the bricks fall: the 2008 real estate bubble

B1.40: Language barrier:

1. Use key phrases for overcoming language barriers.
2. Discuss the difficulties of learning a new language.
3. Spain: One country, many languages and accents
4. 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. New Year's Eve at the Puerta del Sol
4. 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.

B1.45: Handling bureaucracy:

1. Managing administrative procedures.
2. The appointment system