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Language Acquisition
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Free Language Acquisition revision notes for IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Listening skills (Criterion A)
Identifying facts, messages and main ideas
Supporting details and drawing conclusions
Spoken text conventions and speaker purpose
Ideas, opinions and attitudes in spoken text
Visual and spatial features of spoken multimodal text
Phase 1: Emergent
Reading skills (Criterion B)
Identifying facts, main ideas and supporting details
Inference and drawing conclusions
Conventions: format, style and author's purpose
Ideas, opinions and attitudes; personal and global response
Reading visual and spatial features of multimodal texts
Phase 2: Capable
Phase 3: Expanding
Writing craft (Criterion D)
Audience, purpose and register
Organization, cohesive devices and paragraphing
Range and accuracy of vocabulary and structures
Writing in response to a multimodal stimulus
Formal and academic language
Writing text types
Letter and email, formal and informal
Article and news report
Blog, diary and reflective writing
Speech and persuasive writing
Narrative and creative writing
Description of people, places and events
Review
Opinion piece and letter to the editor
Phase 4: Proficient
Speaking and interaction (Criterion C)
Rehearsed and unrehearsed exchanges
Presenting and responding to a multimodal stimulus
Everyday transactions and role play
Discussing topics of personal and global significance
Phase 5–6: Advanced
Grammar and language in use
Sentence patterns and word order
Present tenses and everyday description
Past tenses and narration
Future forms, plans and conditionals
Comparison: adjectives and adverbs
Connectives and complex sentences
Passive voice, reported speech and modality
Idiom, collocation and figurative language
Vocabulary and functions
Greetings, introductions and personal information
Numbers, dates, time and quantities
Family, friends and relationships
School, classroom and everyday objects
Daily routines, hobbies and free time
Food, shopping and services
Travel, directions and places
Health, well-being and sport
Global contexts
Identities and relationships
Orientation in space and time
Personal and cultural expression
Scientific and technical innovation
Globalization and sustainability
Fairness and development
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