Spanish B1 · Intermediate
Connect ideas across time, talk about hypothetical situations, and handle the subjunctive, the conditional and reported speech.
- Present perfect vs pretérito indefinido
- Pretérito pluscuamperfecto
- Present subjunctive: forms
- Subjunctive after verbs of influence (querer que, pedir que)
- Subjunctive after emotion (alegrarse de que, es una pena que)
- Subjunctive after impersonal expressions (es importante que, es necesario que)
- Subjunctive after doubt and negated belief
- Subjunctive after para que and future-time conjunctions
- Negative commands with tú, usted(es) and vosotros
- Double object pronouns (se lo, te la, nos los)
- Por vs para
- Condicional simple
- Real conditions (si + present, future)
- Imperfect subjunctive: forms
- Imaginary conditions (si + imperfect subjunctive, conditional)
- Relative pronouns: quien and donde
- Lo que (what / the thing that)
- Neuter lo (lo bueno, lo importante, lo de...)
- Passive se and impersonal se
- Passive voice with ser + past participle (present & preterite)
- Gerund as an adverbial of manner and means
- Common verbal periphrases with infinitive and gerund (soler, volver a, empezar a, dejar de, seguir + gerund)
- Reciprocal actions with nos, os and se
- Futuro perfecto
- Reported speech: basic statements with decir que
- Indefinite adjectives and pronouns (cualquier, cada, todo, ningún)
- Stressed possessives: pronouns and after-noun adjectives (el mío, un amigo mío...)
- Demonstrative pronouns (este, ese, aquel as pronouns)
- Linkers of cause and consequence (ya que, puesto que, por lo tanto)
- Linkers of contrast (sin embargo, aunque, mientras que)
- Verbs followed by a, de, en + infinitive
- Irregular comparatives (mejor, peor, mayor, menor)