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Spanish Course Levels & Learning Objectives

A Structured Academic Program

Our Spanish courses follow a structured academic program aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Each level is designed to develop real communicative competence through meaningful language use, combining grammar, vocabulary, and practical communication skills.

Learn Spanish with Confidence and Purpose

This academic approach allows students to track their progress, build confidence, and achieve their language goals efficiently, whether for long-term study, professional development, or official certification.

Clear Progression from A1 to C1

Students progress through clearly defined levels, from A1 to C1, with specific learning objectives at each stage. This structured progression ensures steady improvement, measurable results, and a solid foundation for personal, academic, or professional use of Spanish.

A1

7 weeks · 115 hours

A1

At this level, students are able to understand and use very frequent everyday expressions and simple phrases aimed at satisfying immediate needs. They can introduce themselves and others, ask for and provide basic personal information about their place of residence, belongings, and people they know, and interact in a simple way provided the other person speaks slowly and clearly and is willing to help.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Communicative Objectives

  • Greet and say goodbye
  • Give and ask for personal information
  • Introduce yourself and others
  • Talk about reasons for learning a language
  • Provide basic information about places, countries, towns, and cities
  • Talk about the weather and climate
  • Express needs and preferences
  • Follow basic classroom instructions
  • Ask for and exchange information when shopping
  • Describe people briefly
  • Express likes, interests, habits, and frequency
  • Ask for and tell the time
  • Order food and manage in bars and restaurants
  • Ask for and give directions
  • Express past experiences
  • Express skills and abilities
  • Talk about quantities and numbers

Vocabulary

Clothing, colors, seasons, weather and climate, family, physical appearance and character, division of time, food, professions, daily activities, and more.

Grammar

Present tense, present perfect indicative, and tener que + infinitive.

A2

5 weeks · 82 hours

A2

Students can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (basic personal and family information, shopping, places of interest, occupations, etc.). They can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters and describe in simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment, and matters related to their immediate needs.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Communicative Objectives

  • Talk about study habits
  • Describe feelings and moods
  • Understand and write short biographies
  • Talk about the beginning and duration of actions
  • Describe family relationships
  • Identify and describe people and their appearance
  • Express likes and preferences
  • Describe houses and objects
  • Compare
  • Manage formal social situations
  • Ask for favors and make requests
  • Give excuses and justifications
  • Talk about future plans
  • Describe and evaluate past experiences
  • Exchange information about eating habits
  • Understand and explain recipes
  • Describe pain and symptoms
  • Give and follow advice for personal and health issues

Vocabulary

Feelings, common illnesses, adjectives for physical appearance and character, types and parts of a house, shapes, styles and materials, food, weights and measures, recipes, parts of the body, sports, time prepositions, and the verbs parecer and parecerse.

Grammar

Present perfect and simple past indicative, ir a + infinitive, estar + gerund, affirmative imperative, and basic forms of the conditional (me gustaría, podría).

B1

9 weeks · 148 hours

B1.1

Students are able to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure, etc. They can deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in areas where the language is spoken, produce simple connected text on topics of personal interest, and describe experiences, events, wishes, and ambitions, as well as briefly explain and justify opinions or plans.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Communicative Objectives

  • Exchange information about past habits and customs
  • Express obligation, prohibition, and impersonality
  • Narrate anecdotes and personal experiences
  • Talk about work experience
  • Understand advertising messages
  • Give and follow instructions
  • Summarize information and ask for clarification
  • Write notes and messages
  • Talk about future situations
  • Express hypotheses and conditions
  • Give advice and recommendations
  • Summarize fictional plots
  • Understand jokes

Vocabulary

Work and professional life, historical events, personal experiences, advertising, technology, science, film and literature genres, and verbs such as dejar, pedir, and preguntar.

Grammar

Imperfect indicative, basic verbal periphrases, past forms of estar + gerund, all imperative forms, and the simple future.

B1.2

Students are able to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure, etc. They can deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in areas where the language is spoken, produce simple connected text on topics of personal interest, and describe experiences, events, wishes, and ambitions, as well as briefly explain and justify opinions or plans.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Communicative Objectives

  • Exchange information about daily and linguistic skills
  • Express emotions and involuntary actions
  • Express wishes, complaints, and needs
  • Report problems with services and discuss solutions
  • Narrate anecdotes showing reactions
  • Express causes and consequences
  • Show disagreement in different registers
  • Describe objects and their functions
  • Express opinions on fashion and the environment
  • Talk about mysterious and paranormal events
  • Express degrees of certainty and hypotheses
  • Report what others said

Vocabulary

Change verbs and pronominal verbs, social activism, emotions, travel and tourism, habits, psychology, science, work-related topics, scams, conflicts, and complaints.

Grammar

Present subjunctive, conditional, pluperfect indicative, all past tenses, and future perfect.

B2

11 weeks · 180 hours

B2.1

Students can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization. They can interact with native speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and spontaneity so that communication takes place without strain for either party, and can produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects, explaining a viewpoint and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Communicative Objectives

  • Comment on news and write articles
  • Express complex opinions and evaluations
  • Support or reject proposals
  • Set conditions
  • Discuss cultural traditions
  • Give advice in different ways
  • Express distant wishes
  • Express ignorance and surprise
  • Describe people and objects
  • Express cause and purpose
  • Reflect on emotions and relationships
  • Describe cities
  • Analyze formal and informal registers

Vocabulary

Change verbs (hacerse, volverse, convertirse), media and information transmission, verbs with prepositions, legal and bureaucratic expressions, education, tourism, traditions, fears, emotions, and urban culture.

Grammar

Passive voice, impersonal se, imperfect subjunctive, perfect subjunctive, and perfect infinitive.

B2.2

Students can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization. They can interact with native speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and spontaneity so that communication takes place without strain for either party, and can produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects, explaining a viewpoint and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Communicative Objectives

  • Describe movements precisely
  • Give and follow instructions
  • Express complex emotions
  • Make imaginary comparisons
  • Report past speech and intentions
  • Handle conflicts and complaints
  • Narrate historical events
  • Make predictions
  • Structure cohesive texts
  • Discuss environmental issues
  • Talk about professional contexts
  • Express regret and reproach

Vocabulary

The body, movement and posture, verbs poner, ponerse, quedar, quedarse, adjectives with prefixes, conflicts, environment, natural phenomena, history, work, education, and life events.

Grammar

Gerund, future perfect, conditional perfect, and pluperfect subjunctive.

C1

12 weeks · 180 hours

C1

Students are able to understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognize implicit meaning. They can express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions, use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes, and produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Student's Book (Aula Plus)

Aula Plus places students at the center of the learning process, prioritizing meaningful language use and offering a modern, non-stereotyped view of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.

Course Organization

 

  • Week 1: Unit 1
  • Week 2: Unit 2
  • Week 3: Unit 3
  • Week 4: Review week, evaluation, and additional content
  • Week 5: Unit 4
  • Week 6: Unit 5
  • Week 7: Unit 6
  • Week 8: Review week, evaluation, and additional content
  • Week 9: Unit 7
  • Week 10: Unit 8
  • Week 11: Unit 9
  • Week 12: Review week, additional content, and final evaluation

Please note: The Aula C1 textbook is modular, which means it does not follow a linear progression. Its units can be studied independently and in any order, allowing for greater flexibility in the learning process.

Communicative Objectives

  • Discuss language and linguistic phenomena
  • Express opinions and (dis)agreement, argue, reformulate, counter-argue, qualify and nuance ideas, and reinforce arguments
  • Talk about music, sounds, memories, and transformative experiences
  • Discuss personal and social changes
  • Analyze formal and informal registers and spontaneous oral discourse
  • Express conjecture in different ways (conditional forms, expressions such as de repente and de pronto)
  • Correct, question, and evaluate information
  • Use irony appropriately
  • Talk about life stages and reflect on the concept and management of time
  • Use linguistic resources to express impersonality
  • Discuss media, social networks, and misinformation
  • Talk about art, describe works of art, their style, and interpretation
  • Reflect on misunderstandings and humor
  • Mediate conflicts related to communication
  • Learn and use Spanish onomatopoeias
  • Describe roles in cooperative work and use conversational strategies
  • Discuss identity, laws, and social norms
  • Talk about housing and living conditions
  • Talk about food and gastronomy, including textures, flavors, history, restaurants, and gastronomic experiences
  • Discuss discomforts, their causes, and consequences
  • Express wishes clearly and accurately

Culture & Certification

Cinema, literature, and Hispanic music are integrated throughout the course. This level prepares students for the DELE C1 Exam.

Grammar

Students will work with advanced grammatical structures, including: Periphrasis with ir and venir + gerund, independent gerund, conditional forms, and the subjunctive in a wide range of contexts (exhortative que, concessive clauses, temporal clauses with a medida que and conforme, conditional clauses with como, siempre que, a menos que, etc.). They will also work with imaginary comparisons (como si), structures such as el hecho de que…, adjectives derived from verbs (-ble, -dero/-a, -izo/-a), expressions with possessive pronouns (lo mío, ir a lo suyo), causal clauses, complex comparisons (cuanto más/menos… más/menos…), the historical present, periphrases such as encontrarse / verse + participle, relative clauses, uses of hasta, structures like lo mismo… que / como…, periphrasis venir a + infinitive, adverbs ending in -mente, and substantivized infinitives.

Textual Production

Students will become familiar with and produce a wide variety of text types, developing coherence, cohesion, and precision in written and spoken Spanish.

C2

24 weeks · 240 hours

C2

Students can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. They can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation, and express themselves spontaneously, very fluently, and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001.

Although we do not offer regular group courses at this level, we do provide preparation for the DELE C2 certification. If you are interested in a C2 course or in preparing for the DELE C2 exam, please contact us and we will be happy to advise you on available options.

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