Spanish Telenovela

When we were assigned to create a telenovela, we did not think it was possible. Writing a storyline, designating roles and editing in Spanish sounded challenging. Inspired by the telenovela culture of Latin America, our telenovela ‘El carisma de Juan’, was a combination of comedy, deception and most importantly, romance.

The story tells the story of Griselda and Juan who got recently married but then suffer a car accident. Juan develops amnesia and Griselda does everything in her power to make Juan remember her, only for the therapist, Aracely to take advantage of his condition and make him fall in love with her. The truth is finally revealed thanks to the help of Refugio but Juan and Griselda’s reencounter is cut short by Gabriela’s revelation of causing the car accident. In the end, love prevails and the protagonists are able to live their everlasting love.

This telenovela was fun, exciting and had many laughable moments during production. It is definitely a once in a lifetime experience and were able to learn a lot relevant vocabulary, which will be highly useful as we start analysing one of Mexico’s most well-known telenovelas, Rubi. We invited our teachers to watch the premier of our telenovela and they loved it.

Together we rose to the occasion and were extremely proud of this masterpiece.

Year 11 IB Spanish Ab Initio class