Language
Online test 4 Full
If the marks for each student's performance are to be recorded in the Student Access markbook, follow this procedure: > Student Access > All assignments > Add assignments > Quiz (then follow the sequence...
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Social media posting / online forums
Another 'new' text type - or rather, a collection of related text types linked by being produced online, through online systems. Accordingly, it is not clear precisely which types of text, in which context(s)...
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TASKS Editor letters, sampled Free
. Here are three Letters to the Editor. They all relate to an article published in the New York Times by a woman called Kimberly Probolus, arguing that men should listen more carefully to women. That's...
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TASKS About a diary
Why do people write diaries? Worth asking the students this question... although probably not a good idea to ask 'Which of you write a diary?', since diaries are by their very nature a very private form...
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TASKS Reporting robot rights
We read news reports in order to know what's going on. Everyone will agree with this ... but everyone will surely also agree that news reports are inherently a selection of what is really going. This...
DP essentials
TASKS Developing language
Oliver Sacks' book Seeing Voices (1989) is a fascinating enquiry into how people who are deaf from birth cope with the world, and in particular, how they develop and handle language. As usual with Sacks'...
DP essentials
TASKS Language & thought
We would probably all agree with the view that language interacts with thought and that thought interacts with language - but what do we mean by 'interact'? The short text below plays with this question....
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TASKS Nationalist myths
. Why, in the age of Globalisation, does nationalism in all its shapes and forms seem to be on the increase? One view is that this is a natural reaction, a counter-balance - the more that the world is...
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TASKS Pulling down statues
In June 2020, in Bristol, the statue of a 17C businessman called Edward Colston was pulled down and thrown into the river. Why? Because Colston had made most of his very large fortune from the slave trade....
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TASKS Democracy, renewed
I don't know for certain whether the IB is in favour of democracy, but I would reckon that it is. There may be no explicit statement, but if according to the Learner Profile, we should aim to be Open-minded,...