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English B
IB DP Category 1
Stockholm, Sweden, 20 - 22 September 2024
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The Extended Essay in DP Language B
Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2024
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This website is a great resource for English Language B teachers. Lots of information and best of all, free resources to use in class! I also like the way it's very up-to-date... I can highly recommend it!
Judith Goebel
Frankfurt International School (Germany)
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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To B or Not to B?
The IBDP is notoriously tough, and for good reason. Perhaps understandably, students (and their parents) will look to game the system if they...
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A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...
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- No, Kristin - full comparisons between languages are not a good idea. I do not know of anything that explicitly bans such an approach, but clearly half of such an essay would have to be about Japanese, and this is not acceptable in an English...
- Hi David. I have a student who has proposed the following question for his EE: What are the linguistic and cultural differences exposed in the language of the English and Japanese versions of 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare? I have...
- Thanks for the example Joseph - sounds like an interesting topic! I'm always surprised by the broad spectrum of acceptable topics for a Language B course!
- Thank you David! I agree, the fan fiction idea is extremely vague, I think it's just something she is interested in and has not yet developed it further since she did not know whether it's an acceptable source / topic. I think every year...