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- Extended Essay
- Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
- The old course
- Part 1 (2020 exams)
- Topics
- Language and Laughter
- Gender & sexuality
- #MeToo - Gender and Power
- #MeToo - Gender and Power (Part 2)
- #MeToo - Gender and Power (Part 3)
- Cartoons for change
- Gender & occupations
- I want a wife
- Language, Gender, and Power
- Sex and the City
- Language and communities
- Language and the individual
- Artistic Expressions of Identity
- Bilingualism & identity
- Controversy: Adele versus Beyonce
- The Politics of Learning and Living with English
- The way I am
- Language and power
- Language of war
- Pikey English
- Racial profiling
- The Language of Migration
- The Language of Migration - Australian Edition
- The Power of Naming
- Understanding Modality
- Undocumented worker or illegal immigrant - The language of immigration
- What's in a name?
- Evolution of the language
- Translation
- Language and knowledge
- Language and social relations
- Language and belief
- Key concepts
- Part 2 (2020 exams)
- Topics
- Textual bias
- Stereotypes
- (Mis)representation of Chinese Culture
- Gap Kids and Gender Stereotyping
- Media and Race - #OscarsSoWhite
- Powerful women
- Popular culture
- Beyond Baby It's Cold Outside
- Generation Z: #memyselfieandi
- Girls run the world
- Have Your Say – Sports Columns and Mass Communication
- More Sportswriting
- Political Cartoons
- Sportswriting
- What Not to Wear on Halloween!
- Language and campaigns
- "I, too, sing America": 5 Significant Michelle Obama Speeches
- A Wildly Successful Advertising Campaign
- Anti-smoking Advertising
- Brexit: The Language of Politics
- Cool Hunting: Introducing Further Oral Activities and Understanding Texts
- Just Do It - Protest!
- MTV Switch campaign
- Political Attack Advertisements
- Teen Activism - March for Our Lives
- Vote Different!
- Language and the state
- Media institutions
- #deleteFacebook - Media and Ethics
- In Thinking Critically about the Internet of Things
- Make a Change - Public Service Announcements
- Post-Truth, Alternative Facts, and Fake News - Part 1
- Post-Truth, Alternative Facts, and Fake News - Part 2
- Post-Truth, Alternative Facts, and Fake News - Part 3
- The Fake News Debate: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
- Truth, Lies, and Politics (2016 U.S. Presidential Debate)
- Understanding News Values
- Why is the World so Peaceful?
- Role of editing
- Use of persuasive language
- "Hey Dad, Can I Have Some Money?" (The Language of Charity)
- Constructing Readers and Writers
- Diets, Diets, Diets - The Language of Nutrition Part 2
- Sex in ads
- Arts and entertainment
- Key concepts
- Part 3 (2020 exams)
- Works
- Key concepts
- Characterisation: A Values Profile
- Characters and context
- Context of composition
- Context of interpretation
- Faction
- Intertextualty: Introductory Activities
- Introducing Literature in Context: A Summer Activity
- Letters in Context
- Literature, Characterisation, and the IB Learner Profile
- Marxism, feminism & Freud
- Patterns in Literature: Parallelism and Deviation
- Revising Part 3 Texts
- Revision With Twitterature
- The Preconception Game
- What is this thing called literature?
- Theoretical reading
- Part 4 (2020 exams)
- Assessment (2020 exams)
- Paper 1
- Tips
- Criteria
- Skills
- 8 writing tips
- Analyzing tone
- Applying CDA
- Approaching Texts: Line by Line
- Comparative Textual Analysis Through Fiction and Non-fiction
- Comparative Textual Analysis: Working With Genre
- Compare & contrast
- Eton: An Activity in Text Choice
- Exploring text types
- Integrating quotes
- Rewriting
- The Big 5
- P1 Sample work
- 2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Imperial War Museum
- 2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Imperial War Museum (Reopened)
- 2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Imperial War Museum (Revisited)
- 2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Reluctant Fundamentalist versus Robin Cook
- 2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Reluctant Fundamentalist Versus Robin Cook Revisted
- 2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Reluctant Fundamentalist Versus Robin Cook Revisted (Part 3)
- 2013 Paper 1 (SL) Crisis at Christmas
- 2013 Paper 1 (SL) More Crisis at Christmas
- 2014 Paper 1 (HL) Fatherhood
- 2014 Paper 1 (HL) Fatherhood (Part 2)
- 2014 Paper 1 (HL) Fatherhood (Part 3)
- 2014 Paper 1 (SL) Return to The Cagle Post
- 2014 Paper 1 (SL) The Cagle Post
- 2015 Paper 1 (HL) Surveillance
- 2016 Paper 1 (HL) Chevrolet Cars
- 2016 Paper 1 (HL) Environment
- 2016 Paper 1 (HL) Income Inequality
- 2016 Paper 1 (HL) Income Inequality (Part 2)
- 2016 Paper 1 (HL) Income Inequality (Part 3)
- 2016 Paper 1 (SL) "Aggressiveness and Readiness Gestures"
- 2016 Paper 1 (SL) "Diary: Listening to the Heart"
- 2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Electronic Texts
- 2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Electronic Texts (Part 2)
- 2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Wealth and Happiness
- 2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Wealth and Happiness (Part 2)
- 2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Wealth and Happiness (Part 3)
- 2017 Paper 1 (SL) "New Scientist"
- 2017 Paper 1 (SL) "New Scientist" (Part 2)
- 2017 Paper 1 (SL) Justice Hub
- 2017 Paper 1 (SL) Justice Hub (Part 2)
- 2017 Paper 1 (SL) Justice Hub (Part 3)
- 2018 Paper 1 (HL) Bees
- 2018 Paper 1 (HL) Robots
- 2018 Paper 1 (SL) Sharks
- 2018 Paper 1 (SL) Tasmania
- 2018 Paper 1 (SL) Tasmania (Part 2)
- 2019 Paper 1 (HL) - Running
- 2019 Paper 1 (HL) - Taxis
- 2019 Paper 1 (SL) - Smartphones
- 2019 Paper 1 (SL) - Spending Time, Not Money
- P1 HL S1 (birds)
- P1 HL S2 (chocolate)
- P1 HL S3 (baby girls)
- P1 HL S4 (hybrids)
- P1 HL S5 (stress)
- P1 SL (The Language of African Literature)
- P1 SL S1 (Saif Ali Khan)
- P1 SL S2 (poverty)
- P1 SL S3 (finca)
- Paper 1 (HL) Visual Texts
- Paper 1 (SL) How to Attract Women
- Paper 1 (SL) The Rings of Saturn
- Paper 2
- Tips
- Criteria
- Skills
- Coherent writing
- Outlines
- Paper 2: Writing Effective Introductory Paragraphs
- PIE structure
- The IB Learner Profile: A Formative Assessment Task
- Unpacking questions
- P2 Sample work
- 2016 P2 HL (The Bluest Eye and Ghosts - Exemplar 1)
- 2016 P2 HL (The Bluest Eye and Ghosts - Exemplar 2)
- 2016 P2 HL (The Bluest Eye and Ghosts - Exemplar 3)
- 2016 P2 SL (Hedda Gabler and Master Harold and the Boys)
- 2016 P2 SL (Persepolis and A View from the Bridge)
- 2017 P2 HL (Kitchen and King Lear)
- 2017 P2 HL (Never Let Me Go and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- 2017 P2 HL (The Great Gatsby and Woman at Point Zero)
- 2017 P2 SL (Hedda Gabler and Death and the Maiden - Exemplar 2)
- 2017 P2 SL (Hedda Gabler and Death and the Maiden)
- 2018 P2 HL (The House of Bernarda Alba and Hedda Gabler)
- Competition Time!
- P2 - SL (The Bride Price and One Day in the Life)
- P2 HL (1984; The Things They Carried; One Day in the Life)
- P2 HL (City of Glass and Perfume)
- P2 HL (Persepolis and This Earth of Mankind)
- P2 HL (The Bell Jar and A Doll’s House)
- P2 HL (The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
- P2 HL (The Reader and The God of Small Things - Example 1)
- P2 HL (The Reader and The God of Small Things - Example 2)
- P2 HL (Things Fall Apart, Death of a Salesman, A Doll's House)
- P2 HL S1 (Disgrace)
- P2 SL (The Kite Runner and A Hero of Our Time)
- P2 SL S1 (Fiela's Child)
- P2 SL S2 (Persepolis)
- Paper 2 HL (The Reader and The God of Small Things - Example 3)
- Written tasks
- Criteria
- WT1 Tips
- WT1 skills
- Exploring text types
- Writing Rationales for Written Tasks
- Writing for a Reader: A Rewriting Activity
- Writing proposals
- Writing rationales
- WT1 Samples
- From IB Learner Profile to Written Task
- WT (SL) The Crucible
- WT 1 HL (Salome)
- WT 1: From Idea to Text (The Kite Runner)
- WT SL (Back in the Bell Jar)
- WT SL (Digging)
- WT SL (Gendered Advertising)
- WT SL (Hinglish)
- WT SL (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- WT SL S1 (The Bell Jar)
- WT1 HL S1 (Mandela)
- WT1 HL S2 (Collector)
- WT1 HL S3 (Things Fall Apart)
- WT1 HL S4 (Gender Stereotyping)
- WT1 HL S5 (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
- WT1 HL S6 (The Black Cat)
- WT1 SL (Language and Identity)
- WT1 SL (Reviving Gaelic)
- WT1 SL S1 (2pac)
- WT1 SL S2 (Internet)
- WT1 SL S3 (CK)
- WT1 SL S4 (Annie Dillard)
- WT2 Tips
- WT2 Skills
- Quote hunting
- Secondary sources
- Thesis statements
- Written Tasks: A Student's Guide to Getting it Right
- Written Tasks: From First to Final Draft (The Magic Toyshop)
- WT2 Questions & samples
- WT2 Q1 ("Master Harold" and the Boys)
- WT2 Q1 (Pieta)
- WT2 Q2 (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- WT2 Q2 (Pygmalion)
- WT2 Q3 (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- WT2 Q3 (Starkey)
- WT2 Q3 (Women's Health)
- WT2 Q4 (Clockwork)
- WT2 Q4 (Persepolis)
- WT2 Q5 (ACLU)
- WT2 Q6 (Little Red Cap - 1)
- WT2 Q6 (Little Red Cap - 2)
- WT2 Q6 (Pretty Woman)
- WT2 Q6 (The Magic Toyshop)
- WT2 Q6 (Vote Different)
- Individual oral commentary
- Tips
- Criteria
- Skills
- IOC Sample work
- Individual Oral Commentary (HL) Death of a Naturalist
- Individual Oral Commentary (HL) The Remains of the Day
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) Shooting an Elephant
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) Shooting an Elephant (2)
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Great Gatsby
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Great Gatsby (2)
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Great Gatsby (3)
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Remains of the Day 2
- Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Remains of the Day 3
- Further oral activity
- Resources (2020 exams)
- Assessment and Feedback Forms
- Comparative Commentaries to Go
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: A Dog's Life
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: A Study After Death
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: At the Hofbräuhaus
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Brain Gym
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Death at the Ball Game
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Death Rituals
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Fit to Lead?
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Generation Me
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Glasgow
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Gravity
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: HIV/AIDS
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Homophobia
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Iceland
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: In Mourning
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Lies and Lynching, Then and Now
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Marriage
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Nutrition and Exercise
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: People and Paths
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Rebellion
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Singapore
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: The Sea
- Comparative Commentaries to Go: Video Games
- Glossary
- Accent
- Actual reader
- Actual writer
- Adjective
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Analogy
- Anaphora
- Anti-advertising
- Antithesis
- Appeal to authority
- Appeal to fear
- Audience
- Bandwagon effect
- Bias
- Cacophony
- Caesura
- Characterisation
- Clause
- Cliché (cliche)
- Coherence
- Colloquialism
- Complex sentence
- Compound sentence
- Conflict in advertising
- Conjunctions
- Connotation
- Context of production
- Context of reception
- Core vocabulary
- Couplet
- Crowdsourcing
- Deictic
- Denotation
- Denouement
- Dialect
- Diatribe
- Direct narration
- Direct speech
- Dramatic Irony
- Ellipsis
- End-stopped line
- Enjambement
- Eponymous
- Equivocation
- Ethos
- Euphemism
- First-person point-of-view
- Formalism
- Free indirect speech
- Free verse
- Function
- Gatekeeper
- Generalizations
- Genre
- Graphology
- Haiku
- Hyperbole
- Idiolect
- Imagery
- Indirect narration
- Intertextuality
- Irony
- Jargon
- Juxtaposition
- Language
- Logos
- Long tail marketing
- Mash up
- Metaphor
- Metonymy
- Modality
- Multivocal
- Newsworthiness
- Nominalisation
- Notifications
- Noun Phrase
- Onomatopoeia
- Paralanguage
- Pathos
- Pay-per-click
- Personalization
- Personification
- Phonlogical
- Phrase
- PLA
- PLT
- Problem / solution technique
- Pun
- Reported speech
- Second-person point-of-view
- Semantic Field
- Sensationalism
- Setting
- Shock advertising
- Simile
- Slang
- Slogan
- Social networking
- Stereotyping
- Super crunching
- Synecdoche
- Testimonial
- Textuality
- Use of celebrities
- Viral
- Grading Criteria on One Page
- Secondary sources
- Essays of Interest
- Links for Enquiring Minds
- Reviews
- Language in the News
- Mother Tongue
- Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back
- Teaching Textual Analysis with Textbooks
- Texts to Teach
- The Adventure of English
- Writing Black Britain
- Websites
- Text types
- Texts to go
- Attitudes to Language
- Book Reviews
- Endangered Languages and Language Death
- Language and Gender
- The Language of War
- Translation
- Travel and Nature Writing
- Tool kit