IB Spanish B Unit 1: Sharing the Planet Theme Unit (SL and HL)

A complete ten-day theme unit for IB Spanish B that teaches the theme Sharing the Planet and trains the assessments inside it: Paper 1 writing, Paper 2 listening and reading, and the individual oral. Standard Level and Higher Level in one product, with one build: same texts, same arc, with HL extension layers flagged in gold throughout.

EVERYTHING IS ORIGINAL TO THIS UNIT. All three readings and all three listening texts were written and recorded for this unit. Nothing comes from past papers or from any other product.

THE READINGS (Paper 2 formats: multiple choice in the minority, short answer, matching, true/false/not-given with text justification, gap-fill summary, find the phrase)

- Reading A, "El agua que baja del glaciar" (report, Peru): a highland community adapts as its glacier retreats. Ships at two lengths on one spine: about 540 words at SL, about 725 at HL, the HL paragraphs adding new information, never padding. 12 questions, the last 4 flagged HL.

- Reading B, "La ciudad que aprendió a respirar" (report, Colombia, 471 words): Medellín's green corridors against heat and air pollution. 11 questions.

- Reading C, "La huerta de mi abuela" (personal narrative, Spain, 411 words): drought through one family's garden. 10 questions.

THE LISTENING SET (original narrated audio, each text heard twice in the exam pattern)

- Listening 1, "El mar nos está hablando" (radio interview, Chile): an oceanographer on plastics in the Pacific. 9 questions.

- Listening 2, "Un pueblo que se encendió con el sol" (report, Mexico): a desert village builds a solar cooperative. 9 questions, and the unit check re-tests this text with new questions.

- Listening 3, "La cooperativa de la esquina" (conversation, Uruguay, with Rioplatense voseo labeled as the regional variant it is): neighbors build a recycling cooperative. 9 questions.

Full transcripts live in the answer keys and the teacher guide, never in student materials.

PAPER 1 TASK BANK

Three tasks on the theme (a school waste plan; the town river; young people and climate action), each printed in an SL variant (250-400 words) and an HL variant (450-600 words with an added demand: a counter-argument to answer, a second audience, or a data point to integrate). Text types offered across the bank: proposal, brochure/leaflet, set of guidelines, speech, article, blog entry, formal letter, essay, news report. Planning organizer per task, and TWO annotated model responses (one SL, one HL) annotated for Language, Message, and Conceptual understanding in our own words.

INDIVIDUAL ORAL STIMULUS SET

10 real photographs (Wikimedia Commons, credits and licenses printed in the packet) in the theme's five clusters, each with an observe-interpret-connect presentation scaffold, a five-question discussion ladder (the last two questions are the HL rung), and a share of the unit's 20-question general conversation bank. An honest HL note page explains that the HL oral runs on a literary extract from the works studied in class, which this product does not supply, and how the photos serve the discussion and conversation parts.

VOCABULARY ARCHITECTURE

An 80-word bank in five topic sections with English glosses and an example sentence per entry taken from the unit's own texts wherever the texts offer one. 23 entries (29 percent) are gold-flagged HL. This unit's 80 words are Section 1 of the line's planned 400-word architecture across the five theme units.

THE UNIT CHECK (one verified master, four versions)

40 multiple choice items: 12 on a NEW reading text ("Un río, dos pueblos," 418 words), 10 listening items on Listening 2 with new questions, 10 vocabulary-in-context items, and items 33-40 as a flagged HL extension block, reported as an extension tally out of 8, never as a level score (eight items cannot carry one, and no version pretends otherwise). Key audited for balance and patterns (10/10/10/10, longest run 2). Ships as: printable PDF, self-grading Google Forms (copy link; the master carries anyone-with-link writer permission so your copy opens), Canvas QTI (import route printed: New Quiz > Build > More Quiz Actions > Import Content), and a games-format review.

ALSO INSIDE

Crossword (24 definition clues), word search (20 words, definition clues, no printed word list), bingo (30 cards and a full call list with definitions, HL words marked), an 18-page teacher guide with day-by-day costed pacing (a 50-minute core inside 65-75 minutes of material per day), SL/HL differentiation notes, administration notes, and misconceptions per task; a bilingual family letter (English and Spanish); an editable .docx version of the student packet; and a narrated slide deck (59 slides, PowerPoint plus PDF render) with the listening audio embedded, one control per listening slide.

GOOGLE SLIDES NOTE: Slides' importer drops audio embedded in .pptx files, for any publisher. The standalone Audio folder is included for exactly this: upload it to Drive and use Insert > Audio. The guide and intro packet print the steps.

The course's proficiency band is approximately CEFR B1-B2 at SL and B2-C1 at HL (ACTFL roughly Intermediate High-Advanced at SL, Advanced at HL). These equivalences are professional approximations; the IB does not publish CEFR or ACTFL conversions.

Formats: PowerPoint (.pptx) + PDF render, printable PDFs, editable .docx, MP3 audio, Google Forms, Canvas QTI.

This is an independent practice resource created by EduLingo by Dr. Michael Alan Wood for students and teachers of IB Spanish B. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or produced by the International Baccalaureate Organization. IB and International Baccalaureate are trademarks of the International Baccalaureate Organization, which does not endorse this product.