Course overview
By studying Spanish Level 3, you will be able to understand authentic passages on familiar issues and communicate on a variety of subjects using accurate pronunciation and intonation and a range of language and structure, be able to read and summarize a limited number of authentic texts, be able to write more complex texts on familiar issues and have developed intercultural competence further.
What does this course cover?
Topics may typically include:
- Life changes
- Employment
- Work vs personal life
- Biographies
- Cities of the future
- The future of Earth
- Predicting the future
Functions may typically include:
- Describing recent past experiences
- Linking past experiences to the present
- Talking about life changes
- Describing people and situations in the past
- Sequencing events in the past
- Making predictions about the future
- Expressing probability
- Expressing conditions and its consequences
Grammar may typically include:
- Revision of the Present & the Preterite tenses
- Hace - desde hace + period of time
- Desde – Hasta + dates
- Preterite vs Present perfect
- Periphrastic verbs
- Preterite vs Preterite continuous
- The imperfect
- Imperfect vs Preterite
- The Pluperfect
- Expressions of cause and consequence
- The Future simple
- Si + Present + Future simple
- Cuando + Subjunctive + Future simple
What will I achieve?
When Spanish Level 3 is complete, you will achieve the equivalent of A2/B1 level of the CEFR, level 2 of the RQF.
*The above is an indication of content that may be covered over the duration of the course but it could vary depending on the level and progress of students in the class.