Full Description
Exam board: International Baccalaureate
Level: IB Diploma
Subject: English
First teaching: September 2019
First exams: Summer 2021
Develop competent communicators who can demonstrate a sound conceptual understanding of the language with a flexible course that ensures thorough coverage of the updated English B Guide and is designed to meet the needs of all IB students at Standard and Higher Level.
- Empower students to communicate confidently by exploring the five prescribed themes through authentic texts and skills practice at the right level, delivered in clear learning pathways.
- Ensure students are able to produce coherent written texts and deliver proficient presentations with grammar and vocabulary introduced in context and in relation to appropriate spoken and written registers.
- Improve receptive skills with authentic written texts, audio recordings spoken at a natural pace, and carefully crafted reading and listening tasks.
- Promote global citizenship, intercultural understanding and an appreciation of English cultures through a wide range of text types and cultural material from around the world.
- Deliver effective practice with a range of structured tasks within each unit that build reading, listening, speaking and writing skills.
- Establish meaningful links to TOK and CAS, and identify learner profile attributes in action.
Answers to the exercises and teaching notes are in the digital Boost Core subscription.
One recorded audio track is FREE to download from www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras
Contents
Contents Theme 1 Social organization CHAPTER 1 Social relationships CHAPTER 2 Education CHAPTER 3 Law and order/Work Theme 2 Experiences CHAPTER 4 Leisure/holidays CHAPTER 5 Life stories CHAPTER 6 Customs /traditions Theme 3 Identities CHAPTER 7 Lifestyle, including health CHAPTER 8 Beliefs/values CHAPTER 9 Language and Identity Theme 4 Human ingenuity CHAPTER 10 Artistic expressions CHAPTER 11 Communications/media CHAPTER 12 Innovation in science and technology Theme 5 Sharing the planet CHAPTER 13 The environment CHAPTER 14 Human rights CHAPTER 15 Globalisation
