I'm going to write a 120 word opinion essay in
Spanish
in 18 minutes
live.
Watch the structure that makes it possible.
Quick question before we start.
Drop a comment with one topic you would hate to
write about in Spec Vanish
under
timed pressure.
The most mentioned topic
I will demo in a future video
Real prompts from real teachers
beat
once
I make up.
Quick setup.
Two parts.
The budget refresher first
then the structure
Praxis Writing is 50 minutes for three
tasks.
We covered the email
last week 12 minutes.
The opinion essay is task 218
218 minutes 120 words minimum.
Inside those 18 minutes the split is
31233
31233 minutes to plan,
12 minutes to write
and 3
to review
the structure I follow
for every opinion piece.
4 paragraphs
paragraph 1
your claim
paragraph 2 your first reason
with one specific example
paragraph 3 your second reason with one example
paragraph 4
restate the claim in different words.
4 paragraphs 120 words
about
30 words per paragraph.
That is the ratio.
After I'm done writing
we are going to use
this Praxis World Languages scoring guidelines for
writing
specifically for opinion position
essay
and we're going to
grade
my writing
based on
topic development,
organization,
vocabulary,
grammar,
spelling,
belling,
register,
task completion
and today
I'm doing this live
real prompt real 18 minute timer
mistakes
stay in.
Let's go.
step one,
read the prompt.
I'm going to
read the prompt aloud
and you need to understand
exactly what position
you are being asked to argue,
and then choose for or against
pick the site that gives you clearer reasons,
and not just your personal opinion,
and I'm going to start the timer.
Presentational writing opinion position essay.
En la mayor parte de los países hay más hombres
que mujeres
en puestos de responsabilidad.
¿Cree usted que se debería reservar
cierto porcentaje de estos puestos
para las mujeres?
Explique y defiende su postura con ejemplos
específicos.
So,
that is our
prompt
And,
step two,
We're going to plan
quickly,
three minutes
claim
reason one,
reason two,
and restate
and making sure we're going to also include the
transition words
en primer lugar,
además,
sin embargo,
or lo tonto,
I'm going to
open my scratch paper
and
write my claim in my claim.
Yes,
I'm gonna see.
Yes,
sorry.
Okay,
see.
¿So making sure that we are also using the words
from the prompt,
right?
of,
we teach our students to restate the prompt using
the keywords and the same,
of course applies here,
right?
So I'm gonna go back quickly to my prompt and
I'm gonna use the same keywords in the prompt.
So,
c,
I'm gonna say c,
Creo que
se
debería reservar cierto porcentaje.
So
I'm just gonna write here.
Se debería OK,
reason one,
diversidad
e
equilibrio,
equilibrio.
¿And here,
reason two,
I'm gonna say?
¿Perspectivas differentes
and restate
so again,
I'm gonna say,
see,
right?
So that's really my scratch,
my
plan,
so
it's really fast
now that I jotted down what I'm going to
write
and
know what I'm going to write,
I am going to write for twelve minutes.
Okay,
Okay,
With transition words
also
vary verb tenses
deliberately,
OK,
so I just copied and pasted our prompt
on Google Doc.
And the prompt is
en la mayor parte de los países hay más hombres
que mujeres en puestos de responsabilidad.
¿Cree usted que se debería reservar cierto
porcentaje de estos puestos para las mujeres?
Explique y defiende su postura con ejemplos
específicos.
And we have our plan claim reason one,
reason two,
and restate the claim
and now I'm going to start writing and set my
timer twelve minutes.
¿So I'm gonna say
creo que
sé debería?
¿So
again,
we tell our students to use
keyword from the prompt right?
So
here,
the same here
reservar cierto porcentaje de estos puestos para
las mujeres.
And I can say que sie
quisiera
destacar
algunas,
algunas razones
por qué
es
importante o necesario.
I'm gonna say por qué es
necesario
necesario
porque es necesario
que
tengamos
cierto,
Que tengamos
cierto,
cierto equilibrio,
cierta
equilibrio
de
los
géneros.
En los
puestos
de
responsabilidad.
Responsibilidad.
So now I am going to
move to my reason one,
so I want to also make sure I'm using my
transition words primero
and.
So I'm going to read my
see if
any errors.
Que sierra desta car algunas razones porque es
nesario que 10 gamos sierra equilibri dad de los
generos en los puestos de responsibilitad
primero
las impresas necessitan diversidat e calibrio
sicieran competir.
And Estemundo,
quando AI diversidate generos las decicionis
quetomamos como un grupos son mass effectivas y
utiles
porre gemplo
un grupo de hombres nova al considerar las
necessidades odesa fios kela
and frantan diare maintained suvida cotidiana
at the mass Una organizacion con gente de ambos
generos considera
las perspectivas differentes deste el punto de
vistas de las mujeres y los hombres
porreso esa organization
va servir a
los clientes contenta combacion coma comprencion
d'.
Ambien.
In conclusion,
una organization
con las Personas de ambos generos es masumana y
fuerte en estemundo contenta competicion.
Now,
and I
have.
First.
Requirement
Write essay and check for,
errors.
I'm going to score
my own writing
based on this
praxis World languages Scoring guidelines for
writing
and there are
seven
topic development,
organization,
vocabulary,
grammar,
spelling,
register,
task completion
and you know what?
I'm just going to give myself
to all these
criteria.
at,
advanced low
level.
I want you to notice three things.
First,
the plan was a skeleton,
not
sentences.
Four labels,
three Spanish words each.
Two minutes of planning saves five minutes of mid
essay restructuring.
Second,
I picked the position that gave me the clearest
reasons,
not necessarily the one I feel
strongest about.
Praxis isn't grading your beliefs.
It is grading your ability to argue any position
with structure.
And third,
I intentionally varied verb tenses on purpose.
Readers look for verb tense range as part of the
grammar score.
Show range deliberately.
Before we wrap,
back to the question I asked at the beginning.
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comments
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in Spanish.
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write 120 word opinion essay in Spanish
real 18 minute timer.
Pick one topic,
get past the first one
and drop your comment.
What topic would you hate to write about?
See you next Tuesday.
Bye.
