Writing a Praxis Spanish opinion essay in 18 minutes

June 09, 2026

Watch me write a 120-word Praxis-style Spanish opinion essay in 18 minutes — live, on camera. The structure: claim → reason → reason → restate. Four paragraphs. ~30 words each. Plus connector words and verb-tense variety raters look for.

Episode Transcript

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,

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,

I'm gonna say c,

Creo que

debería reservar cierto porcentaje.

I'm just gonna write here.

Se debería OK,

reason one,

diversidad

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,

plan,

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,

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?

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

importante o necesario.

I'm gonna say por qué es

necesario

porque es necesario

que

tengamos

cierto,

Que tengamos

cierto,

cierto equilibrio,

cierta

equilibrio

los

géneros.

En los

puestos

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,

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.

Drop in the,

comments

One topic you would hate to write about

in Spanish.

Under timed pressure,

I read every comment.

The most mentioned

topic shows up in a future video as a real.

And there are two great resources for you

to help you pass the Praxis Spanish test with

confidence.

They are free.

Links are in the description box

My 50 academic Spanish verbs PDF the recognition

list that shaves four to seven minutes of reading

on test day

and 2

and this part is a bonus when you grab the

verbs.

You will also get my post

section Debrief checklist.

It covers all five sections of the Praxis and

every

practice test you take into one specific

fix.

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insight

Both free

both yours when you sign up.

Next Tuesday.

Writing again

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article

in 120 words

in 18 minutes

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Quick action this

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.

Writing a Praxis Spanish opinion essay in 18 minutes

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