ab Initio Unit: Cuestiones sociales

This unit is perfect to explore and compare with other cultures controversial topics such as gender role, homeless, stereotypes, public health care or justice.

The suggested topics are:

• Cuestiones de género
• Desempleo
• Desigualdad
• Discriminación
• Drogas
• Estereotipos
• Matrimonio
• Personas sin techo (sin casa)
• Reglas y reglamentos
• Salud pública
• Sistema judicial

Start off reviewing/learning some vocabulary with Quizlet:

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself.
It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

- Kofi Annan

Lunaprofe 9/02/2018  1 comment

Ab Initio Unit: Tecnología

In this unit we usually assess reading comprehension and oral language production, as they are very common on the exams and easy to bring up in conversations.

The suggested topics are:

• Relaciones cibernéticas
• Seguridad cibernética
• Juegos
• Internet: entretenimiento, compras, etc.
• Comunicación móvil
• Redes sociales
• Uso de la tecnología: escuela, ocio, trabajo, etc.

Start off reviewing/learning some vocabulary with Quizlet:

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important

- Bill Gates

Lunaprofe 5/07/2018  No comment

Eco-educación MYP Unit

This unit and topic are all over the place, so please combine it with materials you might have and/or find in another site, from a colleague, etc

I also have this "same" unit for my ab Initio and B classes, as a part of the "Global issues" but this very one is more focused on Middle Years Program. There is more Inquiry process, actually, the unit starts over with a prediction activity. They have to make questions on images related to their unit and after that each team produces a prediction for the unit. Perfect activity to mix inquiry and language [we all know that sometimes this is hard].

As always, if you have something else you think might fit with these materials, please send it along. Resources:

• Criterion B Assessment: Beneficios del Reciclaje [pdf]
• Eco-Education Unit [pdf]
• Eco-Education Unit [epub]
• Images for the Unit [GDrive folder]
• Activity, plural nouns in Spanish [pdf]
• Image's source: www.cidhu.info 

Every time you don't use a paper you are saving a tree

Lunaprofe 11/14/2016  No comment

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

Spanish B Unit: Tabúes

This unit embraces what I consider among best practices. Students will explore controversial topics and will have the opportunity to discuss with their peers about intercultural issues we all face nowadays.

What you'll find:

- Essential questions to develop your students critical thinking skills
- Reading comprehension resources and assessments
- Interactive online games to learn and practice vocabulary
- A video to bring up a controversial topic to your class to break the ice and start passionate conversations about taboos
- Classic games like Taboo, nothing better to go through Taboos as the proper game (printable)

As always, if you have any work related you think can contribute in any way to this post/unit, send it through or leave a comment below ;)
Thanks to Rebeca & Carolina for telling me some links were broken.

Resources:

• Essential questions [google doc]
• Unit planner [coming soon]
• Vocabulary [Quizlet]
• Compilation of texts related to the unit [pdf] 
• Playing games: Tabú about Taboos [pdf]
• Video: Eating rats in Vietnam [vimeo]
• Article to read along with the video [el confidencial]
• Kahoot for a vocabulary check [Kahoot]
• Formative assessment on Reading Comprehension [Paper 1] [Google form]

Lunaprofe 8/05/2015  No comment