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Best Books of 2018 Free
The last six months were pretty dismal for me in terms of reading adult fiction. I just didn’t get my hands on the books that I wanted to devour. Finding the right book at the right time is so important...
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Beyond Baby It's Cold Outside
InThinking is publishing this page at a time (December 2018) when Frank Loesser's 1944 song, Baby It's Cold Outside, is in the midst of some controversy. In short, the song has been banned (and subsequently...
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(Mis)representation of Chinese Culture
In November of 2018 Dolce and Gabbana wanted to promote a fashion show they were holding in Shanghai. D&G posted three videos (advertisements) on various social media platforms to promote that show. ...
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Writing proposals
Althugh the IB does not stipulate that students must write a proposal before writing the written task 1, this activity helps for several reasons: Writing a proposal of 200 words helps the teacher give ...
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Links for Enquiring Minds - November 2018
At InThinking, we would like our site to be a one-stop-shop. That is, it is our ambition that you can find everything on our site that you need for teaching the IBDP English A Language and Literature...
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2018 P2 HL (The House of Bernarda Alba and Hedda Gabler)
When students get a Paper 2 exemplar that isn’t about their texts, they sometimes complain: How can I learn how to write a Paper 2 if the example you give me isn’t about texts we’ve studied? That’s valid,...
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Anti-smoking Advertising
The following lesson is, unlike much of the material on the InThinking website, a little ‘language light’. It focuses on ideas, rather than language. Teachers may, of course, adapt the lesson, inserting...
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2018 Paper 1 (SL) Tasmania
Texts about travel are proving to be popular choices for Paper 1. It boils down to this: there’s nothing controversial about them. Having to set an exam paper for the entire world—and for such a wide...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: Lies and Lynching, Then and Now
This comparative commentary to go puts together a contemporary newspaper story from India with an extract from Arthur Miller's widely studied play, The Crucible. Both texts concern issues such as lies,...
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Should We Study Current Events in Language and Literature? A Partial Reaction to the 2018 Subject Report Free
The subject report for the May 2018 examinations was recently released. I read it every year because it gives us insight into the course and it gives us insight into the examinations themselves. I like...