IB Spanish B SL study plan

Build a personal vocabulary bank of 60 high-frequency words and collocations for describing personality, values and relationships, recording each with a Spanish definition and one original sentence

Write a 200-word personal description covering character, beliefs and one relationship, then self-correct it against a checklist of agreement, ser/estar and reflexive verbs

Record a 2-minute monologue about your daily routine and one rite of passage, then re-record it once to reduce hesitation

Read two short opinion texts on lifestyle and subcultures and underline every connector and opinion phrase you find

Produce 10 sentences contrasting past habits with present routines using imperfect versus present tense, with explicit time markers

Narrate a 250-word life story in the past tenses, correctly alternating preterite for events and imperfect for background

Interview a Spanish speaker or use a recorded interview to extract five expressions for customs and traditions, then reuse them in writing

Draft and practise a 3-minute oral presentation on a tradition in your community, structured with an opening, two developments and a closing

Compile 50 terms across technology, media and environmental issues, grouping them by word family and testing yourself twice

Summarise two 200-word articles on scientific innovation and the environment, each in exactly 80 words, preserving the main claim and one supporting detail

Write a 250-word opinion piece on a technological or environmental issue using at least six subjunctive or conditional structures

Listen to two short podcasts or news clips and note five arguments for and against a single innovation

Write a formal letter of complaint or application of 200 words using an appropriate register, opening and closing formulae

Role-play a workplace or education scenario aloud, practising polite requests, disagreement and negotiation

Analyse two texts on human rights or equality and separate fact from opinion in a two-column table

Produce 15 sentences using passive and impersonal constructions typical of formal written Spanish

Complete one full reading paper under timed conditions, then review every error and classify it by cause

Complete one full listening paper under timed conditions and transcribe the five items you missed

Write one timed 250-word text on a randomly selected domain and self-assess it against the assessment criteria

Consolidate a personal error log of at least 25 recurring mistakes with a corrected example for each

Deliver a recorded individual oral of 4 minutes on a stimulus from a randomly chosen domain, following the required structure

Re-record the same oral after feedback and compare fluency, range and accuracy between the two versions

Prepare and rehearse answers to eight likely conversation questions spanning all five domains

Expand your vocabulary bank to 250 entries and test yourself on the 100 you find hardest

Write two timed 250-word texts on social organization and sharing the planet, each in a different text type

Complete a full timed mock of the written productive paper and mark it against the criteria

Refine your formal register by rewriting five informal sentences into appropriate written style

Review and correct every entry in your error log, retiring items you now get right consistently

Complete one full timed mock of both papers under exam conditions with no interruptions

Deliver three timed oral practices on stimuli from different domains, recording each one

Review your error log and vocabulary bank, focusing only on items still marked as unresolved

Write a one-page personal exam checklist covering timing, structure and the three errors you most often make