IB Spanish Ab initio

First Exams May 2020

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THEMES

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Identities ● What constitutes an
identity?
● How do we express our
identity?
Explore the
● What ideas and images
nature of the
do we associate with a
self and what
healthy lifestyle?
it is to be ● How do language and
human. culture contribute to
form our identity?

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 Personal attributes

● Personal details: address, age,

nationalities, languages
● Physical appearance
● Personality
● Clothes
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 Personal Relationships

● Community
● Family
● Friends
● Classmates and colleagues
● Pets
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 Eating and drinking
● Cooking, equipment, ingredients,
quantities, instructions, utensils
● Culinary traditions
● Diet, health, food restrictions, allergies
● Foods
● Markets and stores
● Daily foods
● Restaurants
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 Physical Wellbeing

● Accidents: First Aid

● Body
● Doctor: medical appointments
● Health: lifestyle, physical shape
● Hospitals and medical centers: personnel,
buildings
● Sicknesses
● Medicine, pharmacies, prescriptions
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Experiences ● How does travel broaden
our horizons?
Explore and tell ● How does our past shape
the stories of the our present and our
future?
events, ● How and why do different
experiences, cultures mark important
and journeys moments in life?
that shape our ● How would living in
lives. another culture affect our
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worldview?
 Daily Routine
● House
● School
● Workplace
● Shopping, credit, customs, money, online
shopping, transactions
● Social interaction: greetings, table manners
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 Leisure

● Activities and hobbies

● Facilities and venues
● Sport: Equipment, events, types
● Sedentarism (video games, binge
watching)

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 Holiday and tourism

● Accommodation
● Activities & Excursions
● Holiday types: beach, city, adventure, family
● Local customs, food traditions
● Tourist information
● Travel arrangements

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 Festivals and celebrations

● Family celebrations(weddings,
birthdays)
● Festivals (carnival, folk, religious, etc)
● Holidays (national, public, religious)
● Rites of passage
● Traditions
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 Human ingenuity
● How do developments in
science and technology
Explore the ways in influence our lives?
which human ● How do the arts help us
creativity and understand the world?
● What can we learn about a
innovation affect culture through its artistic
our world. expression?
● How do the media change the
way we relate to each other?
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 Transport
● Driving and rules
● Directions and signs
● Emergencies and accidents
● Means of transport
● Public transport
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 Entertainment
● Art
● Celebrities, paparazzi
● TV, Series & Films
● Music & concerts
● Theatre
● Venues Cre b Sa d G iér e R z a k , 2018
 Media
● Advertising
● News and the Press
● Bias
● TV and Radio
● Types of programs
● People in the media
● The internet
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 Technology

● Cyber relationships: bullying, sharing, privacy, dating

● Cyber security
● Gaming
● Internet: banking, entertainment, research, shopping
● Mobile phones
● Use of technology: education, leisure, work,
entertainment, communication
● Advantages and disadvantages
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 Social Organization
Explore the ways in ● What is the individual’s role in the
community?
which groups of ● What role do rules and regulations
people organize play in the formation of a society?
themselves, or are ● What role does language play in a
organized, through society?
● What opportunities and challenges
common systems or does the 21st-century workplace
interests. bring?
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 Neighborhood
● Types of housing: flat/apartment, house, cottage,
studio
● Facilities: banking, post, recreation, recycling, open
spaces, shops
● Municipalities: city, town, village
● Community activities
● Neighbors
● Problems (pollution, rubbish, homelessness, traffic)
● Public Transport
● Directions
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 Education
● Types of schools (private, state, mixed, boarding,
home schooling, etc)
● Equipment and supplies
● Examinations and assessment
● Facilities
● Subjects, timetable & extra-curricular act.
● School calendar
● Uniforms
● Rules
● Levels, kindergarten, university; etc.
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 The Workplace
● Jobs and professions
● Qualifications
● Unemployment
● Applications
● Work conditions: co-workers,
salary, schedule, stress, perks,
promotions
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 Social Issues
● Gender issues
● Discrimination
● Stereotypes and prejudice
● Crime & the justice system
● Homelessness
● Marriage & families
● Public health
● Unemployment
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 Sharing the Planet
● What environmental and social issues
present challenges to the world, and how
Explore the can these challenges be overcome?
challenges and ● What ethical issues arise from living in
opportunities faced the modern world, and how do we resolve
by individuals and them?
communities in the ● What challenges and benefits does
modern world. globalization bring?
● What challenges and benefits result from
changes in urban and rural
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 Climate

● Climate change
● Natural disasters
● Seasons
● Weather; conditions,
impact on daily life,
forecasts
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 Physical Geography
● Basic geographical features
(mountains, hill, river, valley,
field, island, etc)
● Rural areas
● Urban areas
● Continents, countries, capital
cities, maps
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 Environment
● Endangered species
● Natural resources
● Pollution
● Recycling and reuse
● Sustainability
● Waste
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 Global Issues
● Aid organizations/Charities
● Energy
● Human Rights
● Migration: immigration, refugees
● Peace and war
● Marriage & families
● Public health
● Unemployment
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 ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW
External Assessment 75%
Internal Assessment 25%

Paper 1 (1 hour) Productive written skills (30 marks) 25%

Two written tasks between 70-150 words. (3 choices)
Paper 2 (1 hour 45 minutes) Receptive skills. 50%
Two separate sections:
Listening Comprehension (45 mins) (25 marks)
Reading Comprehension (1 hour) 40 marks)
3 audios and 3 written texts based on all 5 themes
Individual Oral Assessment (7-10 minutes) Recorded 25%
Conversation with the teacher. (Visual stimulus and at least
one other thematic unit from the course)
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Grammar syllabus
Adjetivos Adverbios
• Calificativos • Adverbios de cantidad: mucho, bastante, demasiado, ...
• Demostrativos: este, ese, aquel, ... • Adverbios de lugar: aquí, acá, allí, allá, ...
• Gentilicios: mexicano, andaluz, nicaragüense, ... • Adverbios de modo: así, bien, mal, ...
• Grados del adjetivo: • Adverbios de tiempo: ayer, hoy, mañana, ...
− Adjetivos comparativos: más + ADJ + que, menos + ADJ + que, tan + ADJ • Adverbios de duda: quizá, tal vez, a lo mejor, ...
+ como
• Adverbios acabados en .....mente: posiblemente, normalmente, ...
− Adjetivos comparativos irregulares: mejor, peor, mayor, menor
• Posición de los adverbios
− Adjetivos superlativos: el más + ADJ, el menos + ADJ, ...ísimo
• Afirmación y negación
− Adjetivos superlativos irregulares: el mejor, el peor, el mayor, el menor
• Posesivos: mi, tu, su, ...
• Distributivos: cada, ambos, ...
• Interrogativos y exclamativos: ¿Qué tiempo hace?, ¡Cuánta gente!,...
• Posición, concordancia de género y número

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Grammar syllabus
Conectores Conjunciones
• Secuencias: Primero, en primer lugar, luego, después, por último, • Conjunciones de coordinación: y, e, o, u, ni, pero, aunque, sino, ...
finalmente, ...
• Conjunciones de subordinación: que, porque, si, ...
• Consecuencias: por consiguiente, por lo tanto, así que, por lo que, ...
Cuantificadores
• Dando una razón: porque, debido a, ya que, como, por eso, ...
• Números cardinales
• Contrastando ideas: sin embargo, mientras que, aunque, a pesar de, ...
• Números ordinales
• Añadiendo información: y, también, además, ...
• Fracciones y porcentajes
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spécifique Español ab initio: Programa de estudios específico • Indefinidos: unos/as, todo/a/os/as, cerca de, más de, mucho/a/os/as, la
mayoría, la mayor parte,
• Resumiendo: en resumen, en conclusión, ...
alguno/a/os/as, ninguno/a, demasiado/a/os/as, bastante/s, poco/s
• Expresiones de cantidades: un paquete, un litro, ...

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Grammar syllabus
Expresión de tiempo Frases
• Adverbios de tiempo: ayer, hoy, mañana, mientras, cuando, ... • Interrogativas
• Adverbios con cuantificadores: bastante pronto, mucho antes, .... • Exclamativas
• Adverbios con preposiciones: hasta pronto, hasta mañana, hasta luego, ... • Negativas
• Usos de ya, aún y todavía • Subordinadas temporales
• Subordinadas causales
• Subordinadas finales
• Oraciones condicionales
• Orden de las palabras en las frases

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Grammar syllabus
Negación Ortografía
• Formación de oraciones negativas • Acentuación de las palabras: agudas, llanas/graves, esdrújulas.
• Doble negación • Acento diacrítico
• Expresión de la negación: no, ni, nunca, nada, nadie, tampoco, ...
Preposiciones
Nombres/sustantivos y artículos • Movimiento y lugares: desde, hasta, de, en, a, por, ...
• Nombres/sustantivos comunes y propios • Movimiento y tiempo: de, desde, por, a,
• Género de los sustantivos • Ausencia de movimiento: con, en , entre, sin, sobre, ...
• Número de los sustantivos: formación de los plurales • Usos de 'por' y 'para'
• Artículos determinados/definidos, indeterminados/indefinidos • Locuciones preposicionales: adelante, atrás, abajo, delante (de) detrás de,
debajo (de), a la derecha, a la izquierda, al lado (de), antes de, cerca de,
• Contables e incontables
alrededor (de), ...
• Nombres/sustantivos compuestos
• Combinaciones a+el=al y de+el=del

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Grammar syllabus
Pronombres Verbos
• Pronombres personales sujeto. Variación (Ej. Voseo, uso de • Formas no personales: infinitivo, gerundio y participio
ustedes/vosotros, ...)
• Verbos copulativos: ser y estar
• Pronombres personales objeto directo e indirecto • Verbos reflexivos
• Pronombres reflexivos
• Verbo haber: hay, ...
• Usos del pronombre 'se'
• Verbos impersonales
• Pronombres posesivos • Gustar y verbos similares: parecer, doler, interesar, encantar, ...
• Demostrativos
• Perífrasis verbales: estar+ gerundio, ir a+ infinitivo, acabar de + infinitivo,
• Pronombres relativos tener que + infinitivo, ...
• Pronombres interrogativos • Sistema verbal: Indicativo
• Pronombres indefinidos ● Presente: verbos regulares e irregulares
● Pretérito Imperfecto y sus usos
● Pretérito Perfecto Simple (Pretérito Indefinido): verbos regulares e
irregulares
● Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto: Participios irregulares
● Uso de tiempos pasados

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Grammar syllabus
● Formas para expresar Futuro
● Condicional
● Sistema verbal: Imperativo:
● Formas regulares e irregulares.
● Formal e informal
● Variación (Ej.: voseo)
● Imperativo con pronombres
● Sistema verbal: Subjuntivo
● Reconocimiento pasivo de algunas formas del subjuntivo

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All the content has been taken from the IB
Spanish Ab initio Guide for the first exams of
2020.

All the images were taken from the internet for

illustrations purposes only.

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