It happened in 2016 / Speaking activity: Cultural diversity in the Olympics

This activity has been designed for my Spanish students, therefore most of the responses will be in Spanish and focused in the IB exam format. But this activity applies to all languages classes, remember that visual stimuli are great ice breakers to start conversations, debates, discussions, etc in your class.

Activity:
1.- Look at the image in this post and describe the scene [be as specific as you can, to the detail]
2.- Mention the topic this image is related to and justify it
3.- Give your personal point of view
4.- Develop your ideas and don't forget about supporting details 
5.- End with a personal reflection
Think about these three questions, they can help you develop your ideas:

Questions:

- What's going on in this picture? 
¿Qué está pasando en esta imagen?
- What do you see that makes you say that? 
¿Qué ves que te hace pensar eso?

- Do you find any connection to your own culture? 
¿Ves alguna conexión con tu propia cultura?

Then, join the conversation by posting comments below and responding to the comments of others. Your teacher can give you personalized feedback replying to your comments below.

Context information for the image:
Doaa Elghobashy of Egypt and Kira Walkenhorst of Germany compete in the preliminary beach volleyball event at the Rio Olympics.
Image's source: 
Website: Reuters
Photographer: Lucy Nicholson
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Date: August 7, 2016.

Relájate y aprende

Related links:

• Interactive oral activities for Spanish B SL
• Individual oral for Spanish B SL
• Resources for the Individual Oral

Idea based on: The Learning Network, New York Times.

Lunaprofe 4/10/2017  No comment

It happened in 2016 / Speaking activity: A house built on bombs

This activity has been designed for my Spanish students, therefore most of the responses will be in Spanish and focused in the IB exam format.
Activity:
1.- Look at the image in this post and describe the scene [be as specific as you can, to the detail]
2.- Mention the topic this image is related to and justify it
3.- Give your personal point of view
4.- Develop your ideas and don't forget about supporting details 
5.- End with a personal reflection
Think about these three questions, they can help you develop your ideas:

• What's going on in this picture? / ¿Qué está pasando en esta foto?
• What do you see that makes you say that? / ¿En qué te apoyas para decir eso?
• Do you find any connection to your own culture? / ¿Encuentras alguna conexión con tu propia cultura?

Then, join the conversation by posting comments below and responding to the comments of others. Your teacher can give you personalized feedback replying to your comments below.

Context information for the image:
A boy stands in front of a house built on bombs dropped by the U.S. Air Force planes during the Vietnam War.
Image's source: 
Website: Reuters
Photographer: Jorge Silva
Location: Ban Napia in Xieng Khouang province, Laos.
Date: September 5, 2016.

Relax and learn!

Related links:

• Interactive oral activities for Spanish B SL
• Individual oral for Spanish B SL
• Resources for the Individual Oral

Idea based on: The Learning Network, New York Times.

Lunaprofe 2/27/2017  No comment

Speaking activities: Niños fumando

This activity has been designed for my Spanish students, therefore most of the responses will be in Spanish and focused in the IB exam format.

Activity:

1.- Look at the image in this post and describe the scene [be as specific as you can, to the detail]
2.- Mention the topic this image is related to and justify it
3.- Give your personal point of view
4.- Develop your ideas and don't forget about supporting details 
5.- End with a personal reflection

Think about these three questions, they can help you develop your ideas:

• What's going on in this picture? / ¿Qué está pasando en esta foto?
• What do you see that makes you say that? / ¿En qué te apoyas para decir eso?
• Do you find any connection to your own culture? / ¿Encuentras alguna conexión con tu propia cultura?

Then, join the conversation by posting comments below and responding to the comments of others. Your teacher can give you personalized feedback replying to your comments below.

Enjoy!

Context information for the image:
You can see kids smoking, they are chatting out of St Louis Times, the newspaper they worked for, in 1910.

Related links:

• Interactive oral activities for Spanish B SL
• Individual oral for Spanish B SL
• Resources for the Individual Oral

Idea based on: The Learning Network, New York Times.

Lunaprofe 2/13/2017  No comment

It happened in 2016 / Speaking activity: Air Force One approaching to La Habana

This activity has been designed for my Spanish students, therefore most of the responses will be in Spanish and focused in the IB exam format.
Activity:
1.- Look at the image in this post and describe the scene [be as specific as you can, to the detail]
2.- Mention the topic this image is related to and justify it
3.- Give your personal point of view
4.- Develop your ideas and don't forget about supporting details 
5.- End with a personal reflection
Think about these three questions, they can help you develop your ideas:

• What's going on in this picture? / ¿Qué está pasando en esta foto?
• What do you see that makes you say that? / ¿En qué te apoyas para decir eso?
• Do you find any connection to your own culture? / ¿Encuentras alguna conexión con tu propia cultura?

Then, join the conversation by posting comments below and responding to the comments of others. Your teacher can give you personalized feedback replying to your comments below.

Context information for the image:
Air Force One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama and his family flies over a neighborhood of Havana as it approaches the runway to land at Havana's airport.
Image's source: 
Website: Reuters
Photographer: Alberto Reyes
Location: La Habana, Cuba.
Date: Monday, March 21, 2016. 

Relax and learn!

Related links:

• Interactive oral activities for Spanish B SL
• Individual oral for Spanish B SL
• Resources for the Individual Oral

Idea based on: The Learning Network, New York Times.

Lunaprofe 2/10/2017  No comment

It happened in 2016 / Speaking activity: Coexistence

This activity has been designed for my Spanish students, therefore most of the responses will be in Spanish and focused in the IB exam format.
Activity:
1.- Look at the image in this post and describe the scene [be as specific as you can, to the detail]
2.- Mention the topic this image is related to and justify it
3.- Give your personal point of view
4.- Develop your ideas and don't forget about supporting details 
5.- End with a personal reflection
Think about these three questions, they can help you develop your ideas:

• What's going on in this picture? / ¿Qué está pasando en esta foto?
• What do you see that makes you say that? / ¿En qué te apoyas para decir eso?
• Do you find any connection to your own culture? / ¿Encuentras alguna conexión con tu propia cultura?

Then, join the conversation by posting comments below and responding to the comments of others. Your teacher can give you personalized feedback replying to your comments below.
Context information for the image:
A Muslim woman wearing a Hijab stands in the waters in the Mediterranean Sea as an Israeli stands nearby on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Image's source: 
Website: Reuters
Photographer: Baz Ratner
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel.
Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2016.

Relax and learn!

Related links:

• Interactive oral activities for Spanish B SL
• Individual oral for Spanish B SL
• Resources for the Individual Oral

Idea based on: The Learning Network, New York Times.

Lunaprofe 1/30/2017  2 comments

It happened in 2016 / Speaking activities: Refugee children are still kids

This activity has been designed for my Spanish students, therefore most of the responses will be in Spanish and focused in the IB exam format.
Activity:
1.- Look at the image in this post and describe the scene [be as specific as you can, to the detail]
2.- Mention the topic this image is related to and justify it
3.- Give your personal point of view
4.- Develop your ideas and don't forget about supporting details 
5.- End with a personal reflection

Think about these three questions, they can help you develop your ideas:

• What's going on in this picture? / ¿Qué está pasando en esta foto?
• What do you see that makes you say that? / ¿En qué te apoyas para decir eso?
• Do you find any connection to your own culture? / ¿Encuentras alguna conexión con tu propia cultura?

Then, join the conversation by posting comments below and responding to the comments of others. Your teacher can give you personalized feedback replying to your comments below.

Context information for the image:
Refugee children play with a stuffed toy at a muddy makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, Greece.

Image's source: 
Website: Reuters
Photographer: Alexandros Avramidis
Location: Idomeni, Greece
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

Relax and learn!

Related links:

• Interactive oral activities for Spanish B SL
• Individual oral for Spanish B SL
• Resources for the Individual Oral

Idea based on: The Learning Network, New York Times.

Lunaprofe 1/23/2017  9 comments

Interactive oral activities

Some useful resources for your interactive oral in class. Rubric included in the activity.
If you want to know more about this assessment click here. 
If you just need a refreshment on the basics:
- based on the core
- 10% of the final score
- oral / interactive / group
- does not need to be recorded

communication & Media	Global issues	Social relationships
Alimentación e imagen personal	Ciencia y transporte	De tapas con los amigos
Enfermedades olvidadas	Uber vs Taxi	Ayude a un danés
El flamenco		Mi nombre es Khan

This work has not been develop and/or endorsed by the IBO.

Lunaprofe 9/27/2016  6 comments

Spanish B Unit: Sensacionalismo

This topic is always on fire. Talking about media, communication, mass media, newspapers, news... is bringing to our classes the reality and is totally necessary to help our students go through this format and type of information. The Internet made our world a rapid changing world and we need now to re-learn how to interpret and consume information. 
I usually use the following quotes to start our classes with a brief debate after going through the definition of sensationalism. We can talk about Subjective vs. Objective as a stepping stone for this unit. A few questions that can be used along with the quotes:

- Who are/were they?
- Are these quotes objective or subjective?
- Do you agree with this type of thinking? why?

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. [Spiro T. Agnew]

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. [W. H. Auden]

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. [Walter Benjamin]

Learn the unit vocabulary with Quizlet:

More ideas to put in practice with this unit:
- Word families activity: 
We learn vocabulary by associating words with concepts in our brain, the more connections and meanings you make for a word the longer it will remain in your memory and the easier you will learn it. You can make your students look for similar prefixes and suffixes, find similar words with a similar meaning...

Below you'll find everything you need to teach/learn this unit with your IB Spanish SL class. If you think something can be improved, you have materials/resources than can be used along with these ones and/or you are missing something listed here, any links are not working... please give me a shout! 

Unit's resources:

• Essential questions [PDF]
• Unit planner [Coming soon]
• Vocabulary [PDF] [Quizlet] 
• Definition of Sensationalism [jpg]
• Visual stimuli  [Oral communication]
• Text types: Blog [PDF]
• Activity: Word families  [Pensar] 
• Scheme for news analysis  [jpg]
• Online activity: become a journalist [google form]
• [2016 addition] What are Mass Media? [pdf]
• [2017 addition by Mr Cameron Smith] Guía para detectar noticias falsas [pdf] [with answer key]

Lunaprofe 8/24/2015  6 comments

Visual stimuli for oral activities

As an IB teacher we are always surfing the web searching for images that fit our IB purposes and ideas. To do an oral commentary based on a picture is a requirement for the MYP and DP programs.
I've tried to compile all the images I've been collecting throughout the past years. If you have more pictures and are willing to share with the community you can find me here or email me at: contact[@]antonioluna.org 

Movies pictures, images & photos	Compilation from yohevistocosasquenocreeriais
Lots of pictures Walls philosophy	Photography The Arts
Interested in more resources for your Spanish B class?	Check out this page full of resources or the specific page for the Individual Oral

Lunaprofe 2/27/2015  No comment