Language acquisition
IB Spanish B SL and HL
22 lessons at SL. 24 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.
- Units
- 7
- SL lessons
- 22
- HL lessons
- 24
- Questions
- 149
- Key terms
- 90
What you will study
Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.
Identities (Identidades)3 lessons · free
- IdentitiesDescribing people: ser and estar
- IdentitiesLifestyles and health: the present tense
- IdentitiesBeliefs, values and language: giving opinions
Experiences (Experiencias)3 lessons
- ExperiencesTelling a story: preterite and imperfect
- ExperiencesHolidays and travel: irregular preterites
- ExperiencesCustoms, traditions and life experiences
Human ingenuity (Ingenio humano)3 lessons
- Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparisons
- Human ingenuityEntertainment and the arts: gustar and reviews
- Human ingenuityScience and the future: future and conditional
Social organization (Organización social)3 lessons
- Social organizationEducation and work: por and para
- Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: commands
- Social organizationRules and relationships: the present subjunctive
Sharing the planet (Compartir el planeta)2 SL · 3 HL lessons
- Sharing the planetThe environment: building an argument
- Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalization: impersonal structures
- Sharing the planetHL: hypotheses with the imperfect subjunctiveHL
Text types, audience and register4 lessons
- Text typesAudience, purpose and register
- Text typesEmails and letters
- Text typesBlogs, articles and reviews
- Text typesSpeeches, interviews and brochures
Assessment: papers and the individual oral4 SL · 5 HL lessons
- Paper 1Paper 1: productive writing
- Paper 2Paper 2: listening
- Paper 2Paper 2: reading
- Individual oralThe individual oral: structure and the SL visual stimulus
- Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL
Try a question
From “Describing people: ser and estar”.
Questions are in Spanish, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.
¿Qué frase significa «The film is boring»?
Show the answer
B. La película es aburrida
Boring is a quality of the film, so it takes ser, and the adjective agrees with the feminine la película: es aburrida. Es aburrido breaks the agreement.
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