IB Spanish
LENGTH: Two years
KEY CONTACT: Ryan Brown
COURSE CONTENT:
IB Spanish is a language acquisition course designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where Spanish language is spoken. Through studying the five prescribed themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization and sharing planet; students are provided with opportunities to communicate about matters of personal, local or national and global interest, and to make connections to other disciplinary areas in the IBDP. This course is recognised as a group 2 subject within the IBDP and can only be studied as an SL subject.
Topics:
- Education
- Entertainment
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Holidays and travel
- Technology and Innovation
- Globalisation
- Life Stories and Migration
- Customs and traditions
- Social relationships and the Community
- The Environment
- Language and Identity
ASSESSMENT:
Students will demonstrate their understanding through assessment in the following forms:
- External Assessment
- Paper 1: writing
- Paper 2: listening and reading[spacer height=”20px”]
- Internal Assessment (externally moderated)
- A conversation with the teacher based on a visual stimulus, followed by discussion based on an additional theme[spacer height=”20px”]
- Formative learning tasks
- Speaking: Interview, role plays, oral presentations
- Reading and reading comprehension
- Writing: Students will be given a choice of two questions[spacer height=”20px”]
- Semester examinations
SUBJECT COSTS:
All IB subjects incur an examination fee in the second year of the course in order to be externally assessed. The costing system is only applied to those that undertake the final examination, there is no cost to students who undertake the course for only one of two years.
Please note, costs vary slightly due to global exchange rates.
