Building a programme
C3 Teaching & learning
C3: Teaching & learning - explanatory notes The notes are arranged to follow the sequence of the document Action flowchart 3. Numbers refer to the IB document Guide to school authorisation: Diploma Programme,...
Building a programme
C2 Written Curriculum Free
C2: Written Curriculum - explanatory notes The notes are arranged to follow the sequence of the document Action flowchart 2. Numbers refer to the IB document Guide to school authorisation: Diploma Programme,...
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On hating Free
I enjoy hating. I don't like this idea at all, but I really can't pretend that it's not true. To be more precise, I enjoy hating at times. There have been periods in my life when I have had reasons to...
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Pook's Perplex Free
Fifteen years or so ago, George Pook, the then Head of Assessment at the IB, carried out an interesting experiment. He took 1000 English A1 exam scripts, and paid a couple of students to go through them...
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Watching Carnage Free
To El Prado to see 'Un diós slavaje', Polanski's latest film ... or 'Carnage', to give the English title … or 'Le Dieu du carnage', to give the title of the original play written in French by Yasmina...
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Virtual & face-to-face Free
Just back from the English B Grade Award in Cardiff. A very successful Grade Award, in that everything was wrapped up efficiently within the time, and with no significant problems. There were no important...
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About calçots Free
Valls is a small town inland from Tarragona, about 50 kilometres south west of us. It's a sleepy little place, but it seems to have contributed three major elements of Catalan culture – it is considered...
Literature
A different world
In a sense, the reading of any novel demands that the reader constructs the world of that story – builds a mental model of everything from the basic geography of where it takes place, through the social...
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Narrative & dialogue, image & phrase Free
In the Op/Ed section of El Pais, they publish two first class cartoonists every day – Forges and El Roto. These two guys maintain an astonishingly high level, given that they produce witty, thought-provoking...
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Zombie chic Free
RESORT TAKEN OVER BY ZOMBIES was a headline on the main TV news – with gripping visuals of pleasant streets swarming with pallid beings dripping gore. I should explain. My town, Sitges, runs a film...