International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Language ab initio · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Identities; social organization · Spanish introductions and agreement
- Introduce yourself using ser and llamarse
- Use gender/number agreement and basic questions accurately
- ser
- Spanish verb used here to state identity or description.
- agreement
- Matching relevant gender and number forms.
Experiences; daily life · Spanish routine, time and purposeful messages
- Describe a routine and ask for practical information
- Write a short message with an appropriate greeting, details and closing
- a las
- Spanish phrase introducing a clock time.
- biblioteca
- Spanish noun meaning library.
Sharing the planet; oral · Spanish visual description and cultural comparison
- Describe visible details with hay and location language
- Link a visual to a studied Spanish-speaking context and respond to follow-up
- hay
- Spanish form meaning there is or there are.
- mercado
- Spanish noun meaning market.
Preparing for this qualification
- SL only: writing Paper 1 60 min 25%, listening/reading Paper 2 50%, visual-stimulus individual oral 25%. Two writing tasks of 70–150 words each in the current course. Future 2029 course stays separate.
- Spanish ab initio is the explicit beginner focus, not Chinese or a universal language course. Themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization, sharing the planet. No HL course.
Teaching coverage still needed
- Spanish vocabulary/grammar across all five themes, licensed listening audio, visuals and live oral progression remain; no other language coverage claimed.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents
- Language ab initio — Subject brief · 2029 ↗
First assessment: 2029
- Language ab initio — Subject brief · 2020 ↗
First assessment: 2020
Course materials
Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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