Intermediate Spanish courses in Edinburgh
After mastering the basic skills achieved in our three beginner Spanish levels, you can continue to deepen your knowledge of the language in our intermediate classes. You will learn more complex grammar structures and enrich your understanding of Spanish and Hispanic culture. These lessons also give a new perspective on Spanish speaking countries, lifestyles and ways of thinking.
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Intermediate 1
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Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.
Refund policy | Terms and conditions
Summer Courses: 5th August & 2nd September*Assessment necessary before enrolment
Intermediate | 4-week 20 hours course August September Starts 6th Aug
Sorry, this course is now cancelled.
Starts 3rd Sept
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Autumn Courses: 30th September – 12th December
Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.
Refund policy | Terms and conditions
Intermediate Price Student discount Price: £150
*£120 Student
Price: £150
*£120 Student
Price: £150
*£120 Student
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By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Arrange meetings and make plans
- Talk about habits, customs and circumstances in the past
- Locate actions in the past and present tenses
- Discuss and debate
- Talk about eating habits
- Explain how to prepare a dish
- Relate and talk about events in the past
- Write a biography
Grammar
- Use and form of Past tense 3: pretérito imperfecto
- Time markers in the past and present tenses
- Ya/todavía no
- Use and form of Past tense 2: pretérito indefinido
- Prepositions (desde, durante, hasta)
- Direct and Indirect Objects Pronouns
- Impersonal structure with se
- Linking words: y, pero, además
Vocabulary
- Holidays and travelling
- Leisure and cultural activities
- Historical periods
- Life stages
- Food
- Recipes
- Quantities, weights and measurements
- Cinema
- Biographies
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The book is included in the price of the course. Your tutor will provide you with the course book on the first day of the course.
For this level, the book used is Aula Internacional 2. It also includes the CD used in the class.
- Level of proficiency in Beginner 3.
Intermediate 2
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Autumn Courses: 30th September – 12th December
Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.
Refund policy | Terms and conditions
Intermediate Price Student discount Price: £150
*£120 Student
Price: £150
*£120 Student
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By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Talk about experiences and react to them
- Express excitement or emotion about people, events and things
- Say what we want to do
- Make a presentation of a typical product from your country
- Give advice and recommendations
- Talk about how you feel
- Describe symptoms, aches and pains
Grammar
- Pretérito Imperfecto vs Pretérito Indefinido
- Pretérito Perfecto vs Pretérito Indefinido
- Exclamatory sentences
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Ser vs Estar
- Verbo doler
- Form and use of Imperative Mood: affirmative and negative
Vocabulary
- Holidays
- Protected Designation of Origin Products
- Expression to describe experiences and people ( pasárselo bien/mal, caer bien/mal)
- Body parts
- Moods
- Symptoms and illnesses
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The book is included in the price of the course. Your tutor will provide you with the course book on the first day of the course.
The book used for Intermediate 2 is Aula Internacional 2 and includes a CD which is used in the class.
- Level of proficiency in Intermediate 1 (see above).
Intermediate 3
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Autumn Courses: 30th September – 12th December
Materials are included in the price of all SALT courses. There are no extra books to buy.
*Assessment necessary before enrolment
Refund policy | Terms and conditions
Intermediate Price Student discount Price: £150
*£120 Student
Price: £150
*£120 Student
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By the end of this course students will be able to:
- To engage in a wide range of daily-life situations: invitations, introductions, greetings and farewells
- Ask for favours, actions and things
- Give and ask for permission
- Give excuses
- Recount stories in the past tenses
- Express emotions
- Make plans and hypothesis in the future
- Write your CV
Grammar
- The Present Continuous (estar + gerund)
- The Gerund (regular and irregular forms)
- Irregular forms of the Pretérito Indefinido
- Pretérito Indefinido vs Pretérito Imperfecto
- Estar + Gerund in the past tenses
- Tenses markers to tell and describe stories
- Indefinite pronouns
- Ser vs Estar
- The Simple Future Tense
- Conditional Sentences Type 1 ( Present simple ense + Future simple tense)
- Linking words: porque, pero, también, por eso, entonces
Vocabulary
- Greetings and farewell expressions
- Politeness verbs: poder, importar, ayudar, poner
- Verbs: dar, dejar y prestar
- Historical events
- Emotions
- Jobs adverts and CVs
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The book is included in the price of the course. Your tutor will provide you with the course book on the first day of the course.
The book used for Intermediate 3 is Aula Internacional 3 and includes a CD which is used in the class.
- Level of proficiency in Intermediate 2 (see above).
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.
Intermediate Spoken
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Spoken Courses | 4 weeks August September Starts 6th Aug
Sorry, this course is now cancelled
Starts 3rd Sept
Starts 7th Aug
Starts 4th Sept
- Keep up your Spanish and improve your vocabulary, pronunciation and speaking skills with our spoken Spanish courses. We will focus on a different topic each week, for which related materials will be available on the website for students who want to prepare the topic before class.
- Equivalent level of proficiency to Intermediate 1, 2 or 3.
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.