Advanced Spanish courses in Edinburgh

Due to COVID-19 outbreak this term we are delivering online courses.

In these Advanced Spanish lessons we revise the main points studied before, but focus more on speaking skills. The goal of these classes is to improve students’ level of comprehension and communication.

The student should be able to understand complex texts and take part in discussions naturally and in a spontaneous way with a native speaker. They must also express themselves clearly and in detail on a wide range of subjects, including abstract concepts.

Advanced 1

• 11.week A1
• Description A1
• Prerequisite A1
• Course content A1

• Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.

  Summer Term: 6th July – 17th Sept

  *Assessment necessary before enrolment

  Advanced		Price	Student discount

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• By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Talk about our relationship with information and media
  • Analyse and write pieces of news
  • Show agreement or disagreement
  • Refer to something it has been mentioned before: (eso de que, lo de que…)
  • Express their point of views: lo encuentro…
  • Deny pieces of news: no es cierto/ verdad…que + subjuntive
  • Discuss about current pieces of news
  • Talk about their feelings and emotions
  • Describe personalities, feelings and attitudes
  • Formulate unlikely hypothesis
  • Analyse literary texts

  GRAMMAR

  • Adverbs ending in –mente.
  • Expressions in the subjunctive (es falso que, no es verdad que)
  • Opinion and thinking verbs + indicative/subjunctive
  • Verbal periphrases with infinitive, gerund or participle
  • The Imperfect Subjunctive
  • Conditional clauses

  VOCABULARY

  • The media
  • Information channels
  • The language of news writing
  • News and stories
  • Different types of personalities
  • Relationships

Advanced 2

• 11-week A2
• Description A2
• Prerequisite A2
• Course content A2

• Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.

  Summer Term: 6th July – 17th Sept

  *Assessment necessary before enrolment

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  Advanced		Price	Student discount
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• By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Talk about characteristics of places : se encuentra, fue declarado, allí abundan…
  • Locate places in the space: se halla, se encuentra…
  • Talk about identity
  • Talk about lack of knowledge: no sabía que + indicative/ subjunctive
  • Express physical and emotional states: sentirse mareado, quedarse maravillado, etc.
  • Talk about medical conditions
  • Recommend
  • Unlikely conditions and exceptions
  • Talk about nutritional habits
  • Make excuses

  GRAMMAR

  • Relative clauses with prepositions: que, cual
  • Relative clauses in a formal register: cuyo/a/os/as
  • The passive voice
  • Impersonal structures: se construyó, lo construyeron, fue construido
  • Concessive linking words: aunque, a pesar de (que) por mucho que, por muy …que + indicative/ subjunctive
  • Conditional clauses: a no ser que/siempre y cuando + subjunctive / excepto si + indicative
  • Pronominal verbs: me, te, se

  VOCABULARY

  • Landscapes and geographic features
  • Travelling
  • Nature and environment
  • Climate and weather
  • Verbs to express movement: subir, bajar, acercarse a,…
  • Identity and belonging to a place
  • Health and diseases
  • Body parts and organs
  • Diets and nutrition
  • Sentirse, sentarle, sentarse, doler, hacerse daño

   

Advanced 3

• 11-week A3
• Description A3
• Prerequisite A3
• Course content A3

• Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.

  Summer Term: 6th July – 17th Sept

  *Assessment necessary before enrolment

  Refund policy | Terms and conditions

  Advanced		Price	Student discount
  Advanced 3 | Thu – 11am-1pm 11 weeks | Starts 9th July		Price: £150	*£120 Student

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• By the end of this course students will be able to:• Tell stories and react to them
  • Express emotions: ¡Qué + adjective/ noun!
  • Refer to previous conversations
  • Make complaints
  • Make requests
  • Form conjectures about the past
  • Apologise
  • Coherence resources to hold a conversation
  • Give their opinion and make recommendations
  • Talk about social expectations
  • Talk about stereotypesGRAMMAR• Past tenses contrast
  • Using the present tense in stories
  • Exclamatory sentences
  • Reported speech and change of tenses
  • Conditional tense to speculate about the past
  • Subordinate clauses: no me pareció bien que, me quejé de que + Imperfect Subjuntive
  • Debería/ tendría que + Perfect Infinitive
  • Pluperfect subjunctive
  • Me gustaría que + Imperfect Subjunctive
  • Conditional clauses in the pastVOCABULARY• Hotel services
  • Feelings and emotions
  • Adjectives to describe/ evaluate situations
  • Stages of live
  • Verbs that express a change of state: volverse, hacerse, quedarse, ponerse…

Advanced 4

• 11-week A4
• Description A4
• Prerequisite A4
• Course content A4

• Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.Summer Term: 6th July – 17th Sept *Assessment necessary before enrolmentRefund policy | Terms and conditionsSorry, we are not offering this course during this term.
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• By the end of this course students will be able to:• Talk about their own biography
  • Talk about factors that condition their existence
  • Talk about achievements and failures
  • Evaluate actions and achievements
  • Familiarize themselves with literary texts
  • Talk about festivals and traditions
  • Talk about pieces of art
  • Highlight an element in a sentence

  GRAMMAR• Subordinate clauses with indicative or subjunctive
  • Relative clauses in the past
  • Me gustaría + relative clauses
  • Points of view and tenses in stories
  • The conditional as the future of the past
  • Impersonal structures and generalizing
  • Verbs with prepositions

  VOCABULARY• Biographical dates and facts
  • Relevant circumstances in one’s life
  • Social problems and discrimination
  • Family relationships
  • Free time activities
  • Art
  • Festivals and traditions

To book a class using a different method please contact us on 0131 228 6788 or info@saltedinburgh.co.uk. If you have questions please visit our FAQs or contact us.

* Student discount
Proof of current matriculation must be provided before your first lesson.

To book a class using a different method please contact us on 0131 228 6788 or info@saltedinburgh.co.uk. If you have questions about our Spanish courses please visit our FAQs or contact us.* Student discount
Proof of current matriculation must be provided before your first lesson.