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Welcome to the InThinking English B website
This site is designed to provide in-depth help for teachers, and for their students. It provides a wide range of resources so as to give you everything you need to teach IBDP English B more effectively. The site is continually changing and developing, being updated at least every week 52 weeks a year.
Teaching materials are designed to be ideal both for in-class, face-to-face teaching, and also for distance & blended learning.
To take full advantage of the teaching materials, you should set up Student Access, which is included in your subscription fee at no extra cost. This will allow you to provide materials, and to set tasks, for students outside the classroom. See the Student Access pages listed in the box below.
The site also contains substantial sections dealing with professional skills and IB requirements, so as to support your professional development.
What you can find in this section
Using the site ... a general overview & introduction to the site, including How to navigate and overall Categories of resources
Student access ... a detailed introduction to the Student Access system, including its practical educational advantages, and the types of materials and tasks available
Setting up student access ... a practical, step-by-step guide to how to get the system working for you
Using student access ... an introduction to the basic elements of the Student Access system, in use
Task types & purposes ... a survey of the educational purposes and effects of the various tasks and exercises available
Students start here ... once you have signed up your students for Student Access, tell them to open this page - it provides an explanation of the site, and in particular about the 'Direct' student access pages, which they can look at whenever they need to check or refer
The Language B course
If you are new to English B, you will find the whole section Subject Guide overview valuable for reference. In particular, you could start with...
A Summary of Guide 2018 ... which provides a concise summary so as to grasp the overall pattern
Selected Pages
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Using the site Free
Here is how to navigate among the various elements of the site:Top band - at the top of the screen you will see all of the...
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Student access Free
Practical advantagesEducational advantagesAll of these depend on whether all of students have easy online access with their...
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Task types & purposes Free
But first of all, a reminder of how to handle the system in order to set up tasks for the students...The principal tool...
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Using student access Free
.The simplest way of seeing the range of tasks available is toThese pages have been designed for reference purposes by the...
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Setting up student access Free
In order to use Student Access, the first essential step is to get your students invited into the system. Basically, they...
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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...