Spanish B Unit: Tabúes

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This unit embraces what I consider among best practices. Students will explore controversial topics and will have the opportunity to discus...

Trabajo escrito (español nivel medio): la fundamentación

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Algunas ideas para escribir una buena fundamentación  ¿Qué es una fundamentación? Es una justificación, es una primera impresión...

False friends in Spanish (II)

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False friends are pairs of words in two languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning.  They are like people yo...
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How to score highly: Latinismos

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If you are looking at acquiring a higher level in a foreign/second language and or if you want your students to score highly in a test this ...

Spanish B Unit: Calentamiento global

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This is a topic we always end up going through: global warming, eco-friendly, environmentally friendly... are all concepts we need to cover...

Acquiring vocabulary through opposites [Antonymy]

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The way our brain works is through connecting ideas, concepts. Everything we storage in our minds is connected, categorized, related to som...

Noun gender in Spanish: heterónimos

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We've seen some rules to determine the gender of a noun in Spanish. But language is usually like life, a lot of rules don't apply so...

Grammar thoughts

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I do believe it is good to share all the sides of the coin with your students. Our certainties but also our doubts our mistakes our struggle...

Visual stimuli for oral activities

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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 ...

IB Profile: Risk-takers=Audaces=Valientes

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This attribute from the IB Profile is possibly one of the most difficult to grasp deeply by our students. Most of the times they get stuck o...