IB Spanish B

Approaches to learning (ATL) skills explicitly support your lifelong learning and are an essential part of your Spanish B course. This chapter will show you how to explore key study and language learning skills such as

• Thinking skills,
• Communication skills,
• Social skills,
• Research skills and
• Self management skills

In the Spanish B course, you develop the ability to communicate in the target language through the Study Of language, themes and texts. In doing so, you also develop conceptual  understanding Of how language works.

This chapter will show you how to: explore the five prescribed themes:

• Identities
• Experiences
• Elliman ingenuity
• Social Organization and
• Sharing the planet

It is important that you understand the different types of question in each component and how you should approach them. This brief chapter summarizes the key information about how you will be assessed.

This chapter will show you how to: explore general information about assessment components; discover each component at a glance; understand how you will be assessed in each component.

Paper 1 — Writing assesses your ability to: communicate clearly and effectively in a range of contexts and for a variety Of purposes; understand and language appropriate to a range Of interpersonal and / or intercultural contexts and audiences;

This chapter will show you how to: identify specific skills needed for

• Tackling Paper 1 — Writing;
• Use exam tips to improve your writing
• Analyse and evaluate students'  written responses in order to transfer your understanding to your own writing skills

Paper 2 — Listening assesses your ability to: understand and use language appropriate to a range Of interpersonal and/or intercultural contexts and audiences; understand and use language to express and respond to a range Of ideas With fluency and accuracy;

This chapter will show you how to:

• Identify specific skills for tackling Paper 2 —
• Interpret listening assessment types in Paper 2,
• Analyse listening practice and exam tips.

Paper 2 — Reading assesses your ability to: understand and use language appropriate to a range Of interpersonal and/or intercultural contexts and audiences; understand and use  language to express and respond to a range Of ideas With fluency and accuracy.

This chapter will show you how to:

• Identify specific skills for tackling Paper 2 — Reading.
• Interpret reading assessment types in Paper 2.

The SL individual oral assesses your ability to:

• communicate clearly and effectively in a range of contexts and for a variety Of purposes;
• understand and use language appropriate to a range Of interpersonal and/or intercultural
• contexts and audiences.

This chapter will show you how to:

• explore some essential features of productive and interactive skills in Spanish.
• tackle the visual stimulus material for the SL individual oral.

The HL individual oral assesses your ability to:

• Communicate clearly and effectively in a range of contexts and for a variety of purposes;
• Understand and language a to a range of interpersonal and intercultural contexts;

This chapter will show you how to:

• Explore Some essential features of productive and interactive Skills in Spanish.
• Tackle the literary extracts for the HL individual oral.