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Parts of Speech
This page provides you with the vocabulary for discussing the parts of speech in the English language. Most likely, you already know them! Still, being able to discuss patterns - how verbs are used as...
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15 Essential Literary Terms
This page lists 15 vocabulary words that are essential to our course. You should be able to not only define these terms and notice them in your reading(s), but also analyze how they are used to create...
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Best Books - January to June 2026 Free
Looking back at the last six months, I have read a lot of nonfiction. A lot. Two stand out books took my breath away: Man’s Search for Meaning and Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar. I was...
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Text-Type Debates (iPhone 17 Pro)
On this page, you will find two sets of debates that deal with Apple's iPhone 17 Pro in some way. The first debate pits an online newspaper review of the phone against a YouTube review. The second debate...
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Academic Writing: Writing Paragraphs – Introductions
I have read thousands of essays written by high school and undergraduate students. And, I have written a few essays myself. Of those that I have read, I have witnessed the sacred and the profane, the...
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iPhone 17 Pro - 5 Text Types
On Friday, September 19th, 2025 Apple released the iPhone 17 and all the variations they offer - air, pro, max. Who cares, you might be asking yourself? And that's a valid question. For us, in Language...
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Academic Writing: Paragraphs - Topic Sentences
This page is part of a series that supports students' academic writing development. Students often struggle to organise their ideas in a coherent, logical way, and this is frequently apparent in poorly...
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Teaching Novels
Almost all teachers who teach IB English A: Language and Literature have experience of studying novels, and many of you will have studied novels as part of your own undergraduate and postgraduate studies....
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May 2025 Paper 2: Sample Response 5 (Question 1)
This is the fifth, and for the time being, final Paper 2 we are publishing from the May 2025 exams. It is another excellent response to question #1: Discuss how the writers of two works you have studied...
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May 2025 Paper 2: Sample Response 5 (Question 1) Free
This is the fifth, and for the time being, final Paper 2 we are publishing from the May 2025 exams. It is another excellent response to question #1: Discuss how the writers of two works you have studied...