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Cacophony
Cacophony is discordant, rugged or hard-sounded effects in prose or verse, usually produced by clusters of consonants arranged so as to make pronunciation difficult. Cacophony is frequent in comical verse...
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Caesura
From Latin for 'cutting', caesura is a pause within a line of verse, established by the natural organisation of language into phrases, clauses, and sentences, which do not conform to the metrical pattern....
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Grading Criteria on One Page
Both teachers and their students need to be familiar with the grading criteria for the course. It can be handy to have the grading criteria for each assessment component readily available and compressed...
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The Language of War
In its Mission Statement, The International Baccalaureate ‘aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: Iceland
It is sometimes said that anthropology aims to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. If this is so, the two texts on Iceland, below, are works of anti-anthropology. It may be the case that,...
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If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
What do teachers want their students to become? Many things, no doubt. The Language and Literature course is embedded into the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, and the IB has a set of values,...
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Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Remains of the Day 2
The following individual oral commentary (IOC) is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day. It is the second sample on the website based on Ishiguro’s novel. This IOC is a practice activity...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: Homophobia Free
The following Comparative Commentary to Go is submitted to the website by David Preece. David is an intelligent, experienced, and engaged teacher who works at the International School of Phnom Penh in...
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Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Remains of the Day 3
The following individual oral commentary (IOC) is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day. It is the third sample on the website based on Ishiguro’s novel. This IOC is a practice activity...
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Individual Oral Commentary (SL) Shooting an Elephant
The extract for this Individual Oral Commentary (IOC) is from George Orwell’s essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’. For teacher’s who would like to use this exemplar with their students, it is perhaps desirable,...