Language B

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Free Language B revision notes for IB Diploma Programme (DP) - SL & HL students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

Identities

    Paper 1: Writing text types

    • Article and opinion column

    • Blog and diary entry

    • Email and personal letter

    • Formal letter and proposal

    • Report, instructions and guidelines

    • Brochure, leaflet and travel guide

    • Speech and interview

    • Review and essay

    Experiences

      Human ingenuity

        Paper 2: Listening and reading skills

        • Listening for gist and main ideas

        • Listening for detail and specific information

        • Listening for speaker attitude, tone and purpose

        • Note completion and short answers from audio

        • Reading for main idea, skimming and scanning

        • True or false with justification

        • Matching headings, paragraphs and speakers

        • Reference words, vocabulary in context and inference

        Social organization

          Grammar in use

          • Tenses and time reference

          • Modality, conditionals and hypothesis

          • Passive, causative and impersonal structures

          • Connectives and cohesion

          • Relative clauses and complex sentences

          • Reported speech and citing sources

          • Articles, prepositions and agreement

          Sharing the planet

            Vocabulary and functions

            • Register, tone and formality

            • Describing and narrating

            • Opinion, argument and persuasion

            • Comparing, contrasting and evaluating

            • Advising, instructing and recommending

            • Idiom, collocation and figurative language

            • Cultural reference and intercultural comparison

            Theme: Identities

            Theme: Experiences

            Theme: Human ingenuity

            Theme: Social organization

            Theme: Sharing the planet

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