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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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With up to date information on the English B, this is by far a better resource for teachers than any textbook or Teacher's guide on the subject. If there is a question about English B -- and I have had many over the years -- the answer will be...
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Shohei High School (Japan)
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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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- Hi David, I have a student who wants who write her EE based on songs. At the beginning she wanted to proof if there were some changes in the way some songs presented "love" in earlier years and nowadays. She wanted to take songs from the early...
- Thank you very much David.
- 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...