Introduction to the course
Spanish ab initio is a language acquisition course designed by the IB for students with no prior experience of Spanish or with very limited previous exposure to it. In this course you will be about to communicate in Spanish through the study of language, themes and texts and you will be able to develop conceptual understandings of how language works.
Here you find a summary of all these ingredients in this course and a more general structure related to more general areas such as the core, the IB learner profile, the approaches to learning and international mindedness.
Receptive skills: Reading and Listening
Productive and interactive skills: Writing and Speaking
Identities (Identidades)
Experiences (Experiencias)
Human ingenuity (Ingenio humano)
Social organization (Organización social)
Sharing the planet (Cómo compartimos el planeta)
| Theme | Topics |
| Identities |
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| Experiences |
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| Human ingenuity |
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| Social organization |
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| Sharing the planet |
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Personal texts
The audience can be family members, friends or yourself or a group with a common interest such as a message on social media.
Professional texts
The audience has no personal relationship with the producer of the text. For example, an email to the director of a company.
Mass media texts
Directed to a large audience such as an article published in a magazine.
These concepts are key to successful communication and include:
Audience (with whom you are communicating)
Context (the situation in which you are communicating)
Purpose (the desired intention when communicating)
Meaning (the message you want to communicate)
Variation (referring to register for example: formal/informal, etc.)
