Baccalauréat international · IB Diploma
Language A: Language and Literature · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Dossiers, échantillons et documents de programme pour ce cours.
Course units and learning goals · Unités de cours et objectifs d'apprentissage
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Ces leçons abordent des objectifs de cours sélectionnés. Vérifiez les lacunes restantes en couverture ; ce matériel ne constitue pas un programme d'entraînement complet.
Readers, writers and texts · English non-literary analysis
- Analyse audience, purpose, register and multimodal choices
- Support interpretations of a non-literary text with precise evidence
- register
- Language choices suited to a purpose, audience and situation.
- visual hierarchy
- Arrangement that gives some elements greater prominence.
Time and space; intertextuality · Literary comparison and context
- Compare authorial choices across two selected literary works
- Explain how contexts shape meaning without reducing a work to biography
- intertextuality
- Connections and relationships among texts.
- narrative voice
- The perspective and manner through which a narrative is told.
Individual oral · A global issue across literary and non-literary work
- Form a focused global issue and select relevant extracts
- Balance extract analysis with whole-work or body-of-work discussion
- global issue
- An issue of wider significance that operates in local contexts.
- authorial choice
- A deliberate formal or linguistic decision shaping meaning.
Preparing for this qualification · Préparation à cette qualification
- SL: one unseen analysis Paper 1 75 min 35%, comparative Paper 2 105 min 35%, individual oral 30%. HL: two unseen analyses Paper 1 135 min 35%, Paper 2 105 min 25%, HL essay 20%, oral 20%.
- English is the teaching focus. SL studies four literary works, HL six, plus non-literary bodies of work. School chooses texts under the guide; oral connects one literary work and one non-literary body of work through a global issue.
Teaching coverage still needed · Couverture pédagogique encore nécessaire
- School-selected four/six literary works and non-literary bodies of work need detailed teaching and exact guide eligibility/reuse checks.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Spécifications et documents d'échantillon
Course materials · Matériel pédagogique
- Study notes · Notes de cours →
- Revision questions · Questions de révision →
- Teaching guidance · Guide pédagogique · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnostique enseignant · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Supervised task guidance · Guide pour la tâche supervisée · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
Course preparation · Préparation du cours
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Les documents sont disponibles. Les notes spécifiques au conseil, les évaluations et la pratique interactive des anciens sujets ne sont pas encore disponibles pour tous les cours.
Lessons · Leçons →