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Paris, France, 21 - 23 February 2025
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English B
IB DP Category 2
Berlin, Germany, 28 February - 2 March 2025
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English B
IB DP Category 1
Stockholm, Sweden, 19 - 21 September 2025
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The Individual Oral in DP English B
Virtual Think-In, 6 February 2025
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The Individual Oral in DP Language B
Virtual Think-In, 12 February 2025
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Writing well for DP Language B examinations
Virtual Think-In, 4 March 2025
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Themes
Billie Eilish: Ghosted Free
Billie Eilish is one of only three musical artists with over 100 million monthly plays on Spotify. How's your pop-culture knowledge?! Name the other two! This immense level of popularity makes it all...
Assessment
Listening INDEX
. Billie Eilish: Ghosted ... a short (less than 2 minutes) explainer video about ghosting with a gapfill/cloze exercise. An American's Defence of British Food ... quite a challenging song is the basis...
Themes
Words of 2024 Free
Around this time each year, English language dictionaries around the world publish their "Word of the Year", a term that has seen significant usage, predominantly on online platforms. On this site, we...
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The Schwa
I find the schwa /ə/ a fascinating sound. As the excellent webcomic on the right, XKCD, humorously observes, it’s the most common phoneme in the English language and can usually be found in unstressed...
Themes
Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers
Despite various headlines decrying the death of social media, the evidence suggests that it is just as popular as ever. With 30% of people using social media to get their news, and concerns around disinformation...
Themes
Digital nomads
People known as 'digital nomads' have become a globally significant sociological group over the past ten years or so, and this group continues to grow. Being a digital nomad is a way of life that will...
Themes
Themes
The Themes required by the 2018 Subject Guide are wider than the Topics of the 'old' Subject Guide - but in fact, they cover much the same ground as the old Topics. So, how do we deal with them? It is...
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In Memoriam: David Ripley (1949-2024)
It is with tremendous sadness that we inform subscribers that David Ripley, the lead author of this website, died unexpectedly last week. As well as being a colleague, David was also a close friend, and...
Themes
Refugees - Brian Bilston
Immigration has been a divisive topic in several elections around the world of late. The topic is often used to stir up hate and make scapegoats of people who have fled war, persecution, famine, or extreme...
Assessment
SL Listening exam B
Here is another complete exam, following the pattern of the Listening Component. Note that this is an SL exam - the lengths of recordings, the level of difficulty of the texts, and the challenge of the...