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The Individual Oral in DP English B
Virtual Think-In, 2 December 2024
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Receptive Language Skills in DP Language B - Paper 2
Virtual Think-In, 9 December 2024
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Themes, 2018 onwards
Young People Should Be Reading Newspapers Free
The generation we belong to plays a huge role in the formation of our identity. I (Joe) have a colleague and good friend who was born in the same year as me. While I see myself as an early millennial...
Themes, 2018 onwards
Horrible food Free
The extract from E.M.Forster that forms the basis of this text is a fine piece of writing in itself, typical of Forster's lucid phrasing and acute observation, but the text as a whole can be exploited...
Assessment
Listening INDEX
. An American's Defence of British Food ... quite a challenging song is the basis for a gap-fill/cloze exercise - students have a transcript of the lyrics, with gaps to fill in. Conspiracyland ... the...
Themes, 2018 onwards
An American's Defence of British Food Free
Let’s face it: British food doesn’t have the best reputation globally, does it? It’s synonymous with stodge and blandness and the source of much mockery and ridicule. The defence that’s usually put forward...
Language System
Apostrophes
The apostrophe is a small detail of punctuation, but it has the power to change the meaning of a word. So, it is necessary to know how to use it. The rules governing the apostrophe are few and simple...
Blog
Dialects
I grew up mainly in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Yorkshire is an area with a strong local identity. My father was a Yorkshireman, and proud of it … and of course I absorbed the feeling. One part...
Themes, 2018 onwards
Ig Nobel prizes
The Ig Nobel prize ceremonies have now been running since 1991, and are in their 34th year. The idea behind them is stated succinctly in their website - The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising...
Writing
Report (official)
context, audience, purpose - * the basic context will be explained in the question - and the student will then have to invent the details of the report, expanding on the basic background provided. * the...
Subject Guide overview
Language & culture
Most language teachers would accept, at least in theory, that it is valuable for students to understand something of the culture of the language that they are studying. But what does this really mean...
Assessment
Practising Paper 2 reading
. Examples of the various types of question used in Paper 2 are scattered around the site, usually in the handouts provided to support texts for reading. The listing below gives you links so that you...