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Informal E-mail/Letter
When we write an email or letter, the audience is usually a single person. This page covers informal emails and letters, the kind you write to a friend or family member. But what are the key features?...
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HL Crit.B1 'make use' - advice Free
The 2025 subject report states that: “Criterion B1 assesses how well the student engages with the literary extract in the presentation, and how relevant the ideas are to the selected extract. At this...
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What was apartheid?
Read the text from the Anti-Apartheid Movement website and answer the Paper 2 reading comprehension questions. Choose an appropriate heading from the list that completes each gap in the text. To whom...
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Sydney Tree Vandalism
The topic of "The Environment" is explored in several academic disciplines in the IB Diploma Programme. Whether it's environmental risks in geography, processes relating to the environment in the natural...
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Introduction to the course
English B is a language acquisition course in group 2 of the IB Diploma Programme. It can be taken as a higher or standard level class. This page contains a summary of the course to help you feel prepared...
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Opinion Column
It might sound obvious, but to write a good opinion column, you need to have strong opinions. Unlike objective news reports and articles, this text type requires you to clearly choose a side. But what...
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1.2 Health and Wellbeing
How does our approach to health and wellbeing reflect our identity and values? Contents...
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TASKS Bilingual brains
Does being bilingual change the way you think ? An interesting interview with the distinguished research psychologist Ellen Bialystok, published in the New York Times, argues that bilingualism does indeed...
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ATL Skills
The ATL skills are key to developing as an IB student. They are the skills that IB schools you grow and that can transfer to university life and beyond. This page will give a brief overview of the ATL...
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Social Skills
Along with communication skills, social skills are a natural fit for English B In particular, they help you develop interactive communication skills which are key for success on the Individual Oral. ...
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Text types listed & summarized
Text types summarized Each text type involves different registers for the intended audience. Also, each text type has an intended purpose that will integrate different vocabulary and grammar. For example,...
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ToK - the Theory of Knowlege
Underlying the ToK course are two guiding questions: 1. How do you know what you know?2. How do you know it’s true? During the course, students explore how knowledge is obtained or produced through...