Lower / Upper Intermediate resources
*Please note: miPatio study resources pages specific to Intermediate courses are still under construction.
Gramática y verbos
Spanish Grammar Libro de Herramientas de español
Ejercicios de gramática Juan Manuel Soto Arriví
Zona ELE gramática, verbos, vocabulario
Spanish Language Exercises Juan Ramón de Arana
Auladiez ejercicios online
Spanish Grammar Exercises Matthew D. Stroud
¡Más Arriba! Spanish language exercises
Grammarlab Tutorials and Drills
Puntos de Partida quizzes
Audio y video
News in slow Spanish real news read slowly for easy comprehension, with exercises. New edition each week.
English-Spanish audio project recordings done by people from various countries (accents!). Look at the index to see more pages.
El Mensual BBC audio magazine with language focus
Notes in Spanish podcast audio conversations from Spain
Sueños BBC audio-video course
BBC Talk Spanish online course with audio
BBC Spanish Steps online course with audio/video
Proyecto Sherezade stories that you can read with mp3 files to listen to
Audio and reading lessons news, interviews in audio supported by pdf
Sayings - Refranes here's the English to Spanish, but try it the other way around as well
Leer
La Biblioteca de las Culturas Hispanas del sitio cervantesvirtual una recopilación enorme de todo tipo de lectura
Lecturas Paso a Paso Centro Virtual Cervantes (el nivel Inicial es bastante difícil)
eBooks El Tutor de Bangkok, books by Hispanic authors!
BBC Mundo BBC versión española
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Gain a DELE qualification
Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera
Nivel Inicial B1 corresponds to
El Patio's Upper Intermediate 1 level (approximately)
Perfecto, Indefinido e Imperfecto
The first 3 past tenses
Our sheet which summarises the forms and uses of the Perfecto, the Indefinido and the Imperfecto