The photo above is of a street sign in Madrid, Spain. Can you infer what a "berenjena" is? It's an eggplant and a "berenjenal" is an eggplant patch. The idiom "meterse en un berenjenal" literally is "to get into an eggplant patch," but it translates as "to get into hot water" or "to get into a scrape." You'll stay out of "eggplant patches" at this school if you read in Spanish every day!
About IB Reading (Exam Paper 2)
* By the time of the IB exam, students are expected to be able to read a variety of texts on any of IB's five themes at the level of BBC World News (click on link below to BBC Mundo).
* The exam presents three texts in increasing difficulty.
* Students read the texts and answer multiple choice, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions, spending roughly 20 minutes on each of the three texts and accompanying questions.
What types of text can a student expect on the test? For a list that IB requires students to be able to understand and respond to, please click here and scroll down to "Text types."
As stated in IB's Language B Guide, " In theory, a text is anything from which information can be extracted, including the wide range of oral, written and visual materials present in society. For example: • single and multiple images, with or without written text • non-literary and literary written texts and extracts • broadcast media texts: films, radio and television programmes, and their scripts • oral texts: presentations, debates, interviews, speeches, recorded conversations, and their transcripts • electronic texts that share aspects of the above areas: text messaging, web pages and blogs, social media and video-sharing websites." (page 20).
For an overview of the IB course as well as its assessments, click here.
About IB Reading (Exam Paper 2)
* By the time of the IB exam, students are expected to be able to read a variety of texts on any of IB's five themes at the level of BBC World News (click on link below to BBC Mundo).
* The exam presents three texts in increasing difficulty.
* Students read the texts and answer multiple choice, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions, spending roughly 20 minutes on each of the three texts and accompanying questions.
What types of text can a student expect on the test? For a list that IB requires students to be able to understand and respond to, please click here and scroll down to "Text types."
As stated in IB's Language B Guide, " In theory, a text is anything from which information can be extracted, including the wide range of oral, written and visual materials present in society. For example: • single and multiple images, with or without written text • non-literary and literary written texts and extracts • broadcast media texts: films, radio and television programmes, and their scripts • oral texts: presentations, debates, interviews, speeches, recorded conversations, and their transcripts • electronic texts that share aspects of the above areas: text messaging, web pages and blogs, social media and video-sharing websites." (page 20).
For an overview of the IB course as well as its assessments, click here.
TODO EL MUNDO
Students in IB Spanish should be reading at the level of BBC Mundo by May of their senior year when they take the IB exam. Visit this site daily to catch up on the latest news. Link to BBC Mundo
Extra! Extra!
Read all about it--in Spanish! The Smithsonian publishes TweenTribune in Spanish with high-interest articles for students. It's worth it just to skim the headlines and check out the cool pix! Click here.
REad all about it!
This web site has a host of free resources plus links to other web sites with audio/video content, grammar help, vocabulary boosters, verb conjugations and more. Think of Dadoque as a curator of content so you don't have go searching around the web to find it. Click here.
All the news that's fit to print
READING: What's happening in the 21 countries where Spanish is spoken? What's the Spanish-language press in the USA covering? Find out at www.prensaescrita.com where you can get the headlines in Spanish from dozens of daily newspapers in the USA and Spanish-speaking world. Click here.
For videos and articles written for natives, El Nuevo Día has great content: click here.
For videos and articles written for natives, El Nuevo Día has great content: click here.
And EVen MORE news that's fit to print
Check out these Spanish-language newspapers, magazines and other pages in print:
* El País (España, Madrid)
* La Vanguardia (España, Barcelona)
* ABC (España)
* El Mundo (España)
* CNN en Español
* National Geographic en Español
* El Nuevo Herald (Miami, EEUU)
* Periódicos de España
* People en Español
* National Geographic en Español
* Univisión
* El País (España, Madrid)
* La Vanguardia (España, Barcelona)
* ABC (España)
* El Mundo (España)
* CNN en Español
* National Geographic en Español
* El Nuevo Herald (Miami, EEUU)
* Periódicos de España
* People en Español
* National Geographic en Español
* Univisión