Language Acquisition: Spanish

Our Spanish programme engages learners in authentic cultural and linguistic experiences, fostering communication skills and global awareness.

Through interactive learning and critical exploration of texts, students develop confidence in expressing ideas fluently while connecting with the diverse cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

Middle Years Programme
Diploma Programme

Middle Years Programme (MYP)

Language Acquisition: Spanish MYP Overview

Spanish communicators develop their language skills through progressive phases, enhancing their ability to engage with authentic multimodal texts and cultural contexts. Emergent communicators in Phases 1 and 2 focus on understanding and responding to simple texts, identifying explicit and some implicit information to draw basic conclusions. They express their understanding and opinions through rehearsed and unrehearsed exchanges on familiar topics, demonstrating clarity and purpose.

Capable communicators in Phases 3 and 4 expand their proficiency, tackling both simple and complex texts, and producing language in diverse formats. They participate in authentic conversations, articulating their views on personal, social, and global topics with fluency and relevance.

Grade 6

Content:
  • Design Cycle/Design Process
  • Problem / issue identification
  • Design proposal
  • Idea/solution generation
  • Testing methods
  • Success evaluation
  • Improvement explanation
Skills
  • Creating/editing of 2D graphics
  • Presenting / communicating
  • Producing and editing film
  • Developing brand / identity
  • Using structure as function

Emergent: Spanish

Content

Communication Contexts

Grade 6 Phase 1

  • Introduce myself
  • Family and friends
  • School and routine
  • Weather and free time

Grade 7 Phase 2

  • Food
  • The house
  • My neighborhood
  • My holidays

Grade 8 Phase 1 and 2

  • Fashion trends
  • Healthy lifestyle
  • Novel Unit: Cultural and environmental focus
  • Travelling around my city

Grade 9 Phase 2

  • Before and Now
  • Biographies: Who and When
  • Let’s go to Málaga!
  • My passion, my ikigai

Skills

Listening

  • Movies
  • TV programmes
  • Vlogs
  • News
  • Video clips
  • Textbook audios
  • Teachers, etc.

Reading

  • Magazines
  • Newspapers
  • Emails
  • Websites
  • Blogs
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Short readers

Speaking

  • Class discussions
  • Make presentations
  • Interview each other, etc.

Writing

  • Letters
  • Blogs
  • Interviews
  • Diary entry
  • Speech
  • Article, etc.

Capable: Spanish

Content

Grade 8 – Phase 3

  • Fashion Trends
  • Living a Healthy Lifestyle
  • Novel Unit: Cultural/Environmental Focus
  • My City

Grade 9 – Phase 3

  • Before and Now
  • Biographies: Who and When
  • Let’s Go to Málaga!
  • My Passion, My Ikigai

Grade 10 – Phase 4

  • Journeys
  • Future Plans
  • Adolescent Issues
  • E-Assessment Preparation

Language Mechanics and Grammar

Phase 3 and 4

  • Nouns and Adjective Agreement
  • Difference Between Ser vs. Estar
  • Immediate Future
  • Impersonal Verb “Se”
  • Past Perfect
  • Indefinite Tense
  • Imperfect Tense
  • Contrast Between the Three Past Tenses
  • Conditional
  • Basic Present Subjunctive
  • Future Tense
  • Si + Present + Future Tense
  • Imperative: Affirmative and Negative
  • Cohesive Devices
  • Comparatives and Superlatives

Skills

Listening

  • Movies
  • TV Programmes
  • Vlogs
  • News
  • Videoclips
  • Textbook Audios
  • Teachers

Reading

  • Magazines
  • Newspapers
  • Emails
  • Websites
  • Blogs
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Short Readers

Speaking

  • Class Discussions
  • Making Presentations
  • Interviewing Each Other

Writing

  • Focus Areas:

    • Spelling
    • Grammar
    • Plot
    • Punctuation
    • Format and Audience

  • Formats:

    • Letters
    • Blogs
    • Interviews
    • Diary Entries
    • Speeches
    • Articles

Diploma Programme (DP)

Spanish Language B

At both levels of Language B (SL and HL), students learn to communicate in the target language in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.

They describe situations, narrate events, make comparisons, explain problems, and state and support their personal opinions on a variety of topics relating to course content. The study of two literary works originally written in the target language is required only at language B HL.

Grade 6

Content:
  • Design Cycle/Design Process
  • Problem / issue identification
  • Design proposal
  • Idea/solution generation
  • Testing methods
  • Success evaluation
  • Improvement explanation
Skills
  • Creating/editing of 2D graphics
  • Presenting / communicating
  • Producing and editing film
  • Developing brand / identity
  • Using structure as function

Grades 11 & 12

Content

Communication Contexts

The five prescribed themes are:

Communication Contexts

  • Identities

    • Lifestyles
    • Health and well-being
    • Beliefs and values
    • Subcultures
    • Language and identity

  • Experiences

    • Leisure activities
    • Holidays and travel
    • Life stories
    • Rites of passage
    • Costumes and traditions
    • Migration

  • Human Ingenuity

    • Entertainment
    • Artistic expressions
    • Communication and media
    • Technology
    • Scientific innovation

  • Social Organization

    • Social relationships
    • Community
    • Social engagement
    • Education
    • The working world
    • Law and order

  • Sharing the Planet

    • The environment
    • Human rights
    • Peace and conflict
    • Equality
    • Globalization
    • Ethics
    • Urban and rural environment

Grammar – Revision

  • Tenses
  • Pronouns
  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions

Reading Comprehension

  • Past papers
  • Internet articles
  • Texts from textbooks (see below)

Listening Comprehension

  • Past papers
  • Podcasts
  • Audiotexts from course textbooks (see below)

Writing

  • Letter
  • Mail
  • Speech
  • Article
  • Diary
  • Interview
  • Debate
  • Report, etc.

Conceptual Understanding

  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Meaning
  • Variation
  • Register and tone

Skills

Communication

  • Communicate clearly and effectively in a range of situations, demonstrating linguistic competence and intercultural understanding
  • Use language appropriate to a range of interpersonal and/or cultural contexts
  • Understand and use language to express and respond to a range of ideas with accuracy and fluency
  • Organize ideas on a range of topics in a clear, coherent, and convincing manner
  • Understand, analyse, and respond to a range of written and spoken texts
  • Understand and use works of literature written in the target language of study (HL only)

Text Production

Personal Texts

  • Blog
  • Diary
  • Email
  • Personal letter
  • Social media posting/chat room

Professional Texts

  • Blog
  • Email
  • Essay
  • Formal letter
  • Proposal
  • Questionnaire
  • Report
  • Set of instructions
  • Survey

Mass Media Texts

  • Advertisement
  • Article (newspaper/magazine)
  • Blog
  • Brochure
  • Film
  • Interview
  • Leaflet
  • News report
  • Opinion column/editorial
  • Pamphlet
  • Podcast
  • Poster
  • Commentary (editorial/reader’s letter)
  • Radio programme
  • Review
  • Speech
  • Travel guide
  • Web page

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