Languages A2, B and Ab Initio
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Ya hi. This is really effing late. My laptop is having issues so I had to get it fixed. Please don't hate me forever. Anywho I'll just explain to yall the format of the paper then give you some of the normal question formats that will be on the test. Mkay.Ready? Let's go! The Format Yall Ok so the paper 1 is divided into 4 different texts: A, B, C, and D. Each of these texts have their own set of questions and prompts. This paper tests two things: Your ability to respond to text based question and a written response to a text. The texts will be all in the language that you have taken and will be chosen externally. You have no say whatsoever in what they pick. Sorry. Altho…
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Just out of interest, I wanted to ask people how many options their school offers their students in terms of Language B's. The most common Language B's being studied on this forum seem to be French, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, German and and Italian. Is anyone out there studying a very random language, or one that is not commonly spoken worldwide? If you are, why did you choose it instead of a more commonly used language? My own school offers French, Hebrew and Arabic as Language B (and a few students have taken Spanish, Italian and Finnish as a 7th subject).
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Here are some tips that I think will help with formatting paper 2's for language B. Sorry it's not very well edited. Paper 2 Tips Overarching tips: -Register: Who are you talking to? Should you use “tu” or “vous”? Are you being subjective or objective? -Linguistic elements: Always remember to include a variety of tenses and colloquial language. However, when considering tenses always make sure to stay consistent and match the tense that the prompt requires. -Structure: For structuring, always make sure your paragraphs are cohesive and transitions are solid. As Lower would say “Give their eyes a break”. -Principal ideas: This is very important. So important it needs to…
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Greetings humans. The following are some tips I've compiled in order to make your oral a less painful and rather care free process in which you talk with the examiner (which may or may not be your teacher) about a topic that you have chosen (or not). So here we go with the tips... The Format Alright. The oral for language B consists of 9-12 minutes of you purely talking in your chosen foreign language. Whether it be French, Spanish, German, MAndarin, etc. the list goes on and on, the format will mostly be the same. (Unless I'm delusional in which case it isn't). It is also divided into three 3-4 minute chunks. These 'chunks' if you will each have a different component to …
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Here are the links to the notes and sample works for Languages A2, B, Ab Initio we have on our Files archive. To be able to download files, you have to be a VIP member or a VIP subscriber. Please see the FAQ for information on how to become a VIP or how to buy a VIP subscription. If you want to donate and contribute files to our archive, please see this announcement or this FAQ section. Languages A2, B & Ab Initio Language A2 Language B and Ab Initio French: Notes and essays for French B and Ab Initio
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So according to some, having language pen-pals can count for creativity hours. How? Basically, what you have to do is find someone who is doing IB somewhere else (outside of your country of residence), and talk to them in a language that you are not fluent in. In this case, us IB students can use our language B to fit that criteria. The only requirement is that you conduct your email entirely in that foreign language, and that person will reply to you in their foreign language (one in which you can understand of course). The emails should be set about once or twice a week for about 15 minutes, depending on how free you are. However, you'll notice that if this is continue…
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Just started making Quizlets form my German class and I thought someone else could benefit from them too! I'll add more as I make more Quizlet Folder
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Hello, For those of you that have done Latin HL before can you please tell me what you did so that you could actually read it, what did you do build up vocabulary, learn grammar etc? Thanks in advance.
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Title says it all. If I learn the ab initio language I'm studying to a point beyond what is taught at the IB through self-study, can I apply this learned knowledge to the written assessment (e.g. using more complicated grammar structures, words not in the course, etc.)? Specifically for the externally assessed final IB examinations.
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We have TOK formative once every two week and these formatives have direct correlation with our predicted grades. This week, there are both midterm exams and the TOK essay deadline. TOK deadline on Thursday, Exam ends on Friday. The exams also impact our predicted grade for IB. We have argued many times and we asked for an extension (two day extension) so that we can focus on the exam first, however, they disagreed and said they gave us class time. The "class time" they gave to my class was 45min only, and when we have exams we don't have the normal class schedule, which means that there are no TOK class during the week of exams. Can you finish an essay in …
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Despite having over a year's experience with the language by this September, I'm taking Mandarin ab initio through Pamoja next year. To those who have finished it - what HSK or CEFR level would you say it got you to? I can already pass HSK 3 and would like to know if the course could bring me any further. While it's already set in stone and I know it will be good to strengthen my foundations, it's still a question of interest.
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Hi all, I have two main questions. The first is 1) if we happen to want to redo the oral, will we have the opportunity to do that? My teacher has never answered this question explicitly. The second is about idiomatic expressions. I am in Spanish B SL, and while I did notice that idiomatic expressions are listed under the mark band for the highest number of points on the rubric, my teacher didn't stress idiomatic expressions in class AT ALL. I'm not sure what experience people have here with learning idiomatic expressions, but I'm not a native speaker and we didn't cover this topic in class. I was planning to throw in one or two I learned online throughout the pr…
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Hii, I need to choose a topic for my EE. I was thinking about doing English B category 2 (culture and society) but I'm not quite sure on what specific to do. I brainstormed some ideas: doing a research focusing on Disney movies or cartoons and the impact they have on kids' views and values analyze the problems in a specific kid movie something related to traveling and moving around (and therefore the effect on the person) something about societies and the impact on individuals' identity Could someone give me some tips?? I'm struggling a lot on finding a specific research topic 😕 (In case it might help, I'm very interested in sociology …
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It has been about a year I have been studying IB in my school but my school doesn't have any Japanese teachers. Me and my parents have been searching for so long but we couldn't find any. Please help me I am in desperate need of a Japanese ab initio teacher.
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Hei fellas, After a long hiatus doing other stuff, I'm trying to do self-taught German to go to University in Luxembourg, and I would like to use the IB methods even though I won't take the examinations (I did the IB long ago). I bought this second hand book online Deutsch im Einsatz, but I realised that it does not include any CD or link to the audio files, which are supposed to be played or shared by the teacher in an "elevated version". I was wondering if any of you happens to have these files or knows where I could get them for free? Best,
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I have two friends that are taking Ab Initio. One has been taking Spanish for five years, and is taking Ab Initio, and one has been taking French for four years, and is taking Ab Initio. Is this right? I'm in french with one of them and its just difficult for me.
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Does anyone know where I can learn how to write the different formats for French B SL paper two? Our teacher did not teach us them and I hear that you get marks off if they aren't done properly...is this true? Whoever changed my post is just rude
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So I just got my practice grades back from my French teacher and as an exam grade I got a 5/7. I'm super disappointed and was considering taking French Phase 2 rather than Phase 4, as I think I overestimated my capabilities. Please can someone advise me on what I can do and how I should progress?
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Hey! So according to the ammendments for M21 exams, it says that Internal assessment—amended; teachers may share two extracts from the same literary text with students. Can we ask the teacher to show us 2 extracts from one of the texts? Or is it something that the teacher decides upon? Thanks!
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I got 2 marks away from a 7 in French SL B-- the lower grade boundary for a 7 is an 83. Does anyone have any experience with remarking of SL French? I don't see hope in the Paper 2 Reading Comp. because it's primarily objective, but I have more optimism for additional points in the Paper 1 written task and oral for their subjectivity. Can anyone say if it's worth requesting a remark?
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HI, im a dp1 student in IB. i'm looking for a book list for italian selftought but i could not find it. Do some one has a link for the book list?
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My current topic is To what extent does the social class we are born into affect us and our future? on The Outsiders. I was thinking it was good for the literature category, but my teacher first said it was okay, then said it was not okay, and she said that the book is not literature. I realized that she doesn't really know how to help me even and I started searching up online, but got even more confused. Is this topic good? Or should I change it?
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I'm a May 2010 candidate taking Spanish Ab Initio. I'm the only one at my school who takes this subject, and I basically I have to follow the syllabus on my own, since my teacher is not familiar with the IB-program. Consequently, I don't know if I should work harder or less. What have you done for Spanish Ab Initio so far? I have, in broad strokes, taught myself the regular verbs in every tense: present, perfect, imperfect, conditional, etc. Now I can just pump my head full of regular verbs and I'll know them in each tense. ^^ Soon I will start with common irregular verbs in each tense. Meanwhile, I learn new words and try to read, etc
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i have a problem choosing subjects that will be right for me. in my igcse I took Spanish as a second language. but for ib, I want to take French ab initio. is this the right choice or should I continue with Spanish?
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Hi fellow procrastinators! I'm currently a junior and I am having second thoughts on taking HL French. Right now, I'm losing confidence in doing well because I've been seeing some discussions that say a number of people around the world that take HL French are somewhat fluent. As someone that is quite "average" at French, I'm curious on how difficult it is exactly to pass HL French. So far my skill level has been hard to evaluate because my teacher focuses on the immersion experience, so more talking, and less grammar and vocab. The farthest that i have gotten in grammar was "Passé composé" from 9th grade. To give you a better sense of my experience in cl…
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i am doing my ee in hindi and am unable to find any sample ee's for this subject on the internet. it would be great if u could help me by sharing a few links. thankyou.
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Hey I am from India and I am doing Extended Essay in Hindi and I am stuck up with what topic should I take and how to take a topic and how to go on with it. I have taken help from my teacher but he has just given the broader topic like language, literature and culture-society but I need a more focused topic to frame my research question. So can anyone please guide me through the topics Thank you
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Hi guys, I am doing my EE on english B and I was wondering if anyone had some tips or an EE in english B to share... Thank you
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Hiya everyone! New around here. My family is moving abroad (my parent's home country) and I'll be taking the IB from September. My parents speak the language; I don't apart from a few phrases, greetings, etc. However, I'm a little worried as I have chosen to do HL Language B for this language. During lockdown, I have been going through the Duolingo course for the language, have an online tutor for three times a week from next week and we'll be moving to the country about 2 months before I start - will this be enough to get me up to scratch so that I'm able to take HL Language B - what kind of fluency is expected when you start? It's worth pointing out …
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Hello, there! This is my first post here ever. So, I'm going to hand in the subjects option form two days later. But I have trouble making choices on English. I want to know the differences between English A SL and English B HL apart from the difficulties and quantity of assignments. Do both English A HL and SL focus on literature itself, whereas B focuses on the application of the language and cultures? Thanks!
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I need to soon come up with some ee topic and question and i have none. If you could give me any cool and iteresting ideas, i would really apreciate it.
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I've taken spanish since 7th grade (and I am in 11th grade now doing the IB Diploma program). I have always had amazing teachers, and I try to practice outside of class with my friends but I am no where near fluent. My grades are good, but I fear that I am not prepared for the test. I have looked into travelling to Spain for a couple weeks to immerse myself in the language... but I have not found a good program.
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This is the first time to use a forum, so if I am posting at a wrong category, tell me. I got A for my IGCSE english language last year. (still cannot believe- I was expecting B for it) I chose English A SL for my IB, but I thought English B HL would be a better choice for me... so I visited the IB coordinator, but every time she rejected because of my IGCSE score. She told me that there is a policy in IB that a student that got a high score (over B? over A?) cannot change to English B even though it is HL; but all the other teachers said that there is no such policy like that. Also, I heard that other student in the school that scored well for their IGCSE eng c…
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Hello, I am starting my IB program this year and I was wondering, in order to take Language B (either SL or HL) do I have to know this language beforehand? I will be attending school in Sweden, however, I am not from there nor have I spent more than a month there. I am planning on taking Spanish HL (I have been studying Spanish for four years) and I really want to learn Swedish. So is it possible to learn a language without having an experience in target language? Thanks in advance!💘
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Instead of an art subject, is it possible to take a 3rd language for your group 6? I've already decided on English A LangLit and my first language A Lit, but I also really want to do French B. Is that possible?
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I just came out of the examination room for my Individual Oral Assessment in Mandarin B SL and I don't feel confident that I'll even get a level 4 for it. I was very under prepared and included a lot of filler words like "um" and couldn't answer the discussion questions well. Even though it's only 20% of the overall grade itself, I'm quite concerned that it may pull me down if if I actually were to score a really bad grade. Mandarin is one of my weakest subjects, and I'm paranoid that it would pull my total IB grade down as well. I don't know what to do
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Is it difficult? I’m a native speaker, but I’m horrible at Arabic.
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Anyone taking Hindi B sl for May 2021 exam, how are you preparing for it? Also for IA what topics will be high scoring
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Hi all, I'm taking German B SL because my school requires German as language B. My grammar is fine, but I find myself struggling due to lack of vocabulary. My teacher expects my understanding to be much better than it is, which is not helping much, and my textbook (Cambridge, second edition) does not have any vocabulary pages. Anyone here knows where I could find a good vocabulary list that is appropriate for SL? Thanks!!
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Hi there, Just wondering if anyone was taking Classical Greek, apparently there are only about 12 people in the world each year! Would be great to find another one of the select few :) P.S. I'm doing Latin too if anyone does that!
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SO Can someone please explain the exam pattern and what i need to submit in my IA? I went to the IB website but I got a little confused. What does the written assignment consist of? and what are interactive oral activities? Also, there are rumors that the whole pattern changed or something? Is that true? whats the new pattern?
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Hi guys! I'm a Grade 10, and I'll be going to the DP next year. I'm currently taking Language A Mandarin and Language B Spanish, but even though I am Taiwanese, I have never studied in Taiwan, therefore, my mandarin level is lower than the other 2 Chinese students in my class. My parents want me to keep taking Mandarin A but I'm afraid that if I keep taking it in DP, my score will be really low and I can't convince them to let me drop it.. So do you guys have any advice? :(
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Hey! I've just started IBY1 and until the end of September, I can make changes to my subjects. So I'm wondering if I should take English B HL instead of English A HL (which I'm taking now). I've always been quite good at English however it's not my native language and that's why I'm afraid if I can handle English A HL. I'm most stressed about the interpretations and analyses of the texts during the final exams. I'm quite good at writing but I'm not sure about analyzing. I'm also already taking 3 other HL subjects (Biology, Chemistry and Geography) and I want to make it easier for me and have the best results possible and since I'm not planning on studying a…
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Hi guys, I will be starting the IB in a month and give my exams in 2021. I was confused whether to take French SL or Spanish abinitio. I have previously taken french for my igcse. The HL subjects i had planned were Math AA, Physics and Chem and my SL's as Spanish abinitio, eco and lit lang. Could someone help out with differences of taking each subject and the difficulty levels. My school unfortunately doesn’t allow me to take french abinitio. I would prefer the subject in which it is easier to score. Thank You.
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Hi, Next year, I will be going into my IB years. I am not good at french and I was wondering what I can do to prepare for IB French B SL. This year, I was quite confused with a lot of the lessons and assessments so I wanted to know the steps I can take to be on the right track for next year. I am in Ontario, Canada (might be easier to answer my question with a bit of context). Appreciate all the help, Neil
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My Chinese teacher has permitted me to study a year of Chinese over the summer, and this will put me into IB Chinese B SL. The course progression of foreign languages goes like this: freshman year -- Chinese 100, sophomore year -- Chinese 200, junior year -- IB Chinese B SL (300), and senior year -- IB Chinese B SL (400), and then we take the IB Chinese B SL test in our senior year. Since I will be studying over the summer, I will be taking IB Chinese B SL a year earlier and have the chance to study IB Chinese B HL (500) if I find myself truly loving the subject and language. I learn languages fast, but I have never done it in two months before. However, I am not a n…
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Hi I wrote my Language B Paper w today and the question said that we had to write a diary. My format for the diary was mostly incorrect and my sounded more like a letter. I know I will lose marks in the format criterion but since my format was so incorrect can they even cut marks under Language and Content which are the other two criteria even though they were completely upto the mark?
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can we take language B SL as a self taught language? I want to take Urdu in Language B SL
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Hi I wrote my Hindi B Paper 1 today and I cancelled a few MCQ answers in the box and wrote the new answers right outside the box. Are only the boxes scanned and sent or is the whole sheet sent so the examiner would understand what I have done?
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I was told to go through past papers and find vocabulary that I do not know. However, just going through one paper nearly took a whole day. I feel this is inefficient. So, how do you get a 7 in your Language B papers? Is it simply a matter of memorising vocabulary to do with the Core Topics and an option and then knowing some advanced grammatical constructions? Should we know some more general verbs and adjectives ? Any tips on getting a 7 for Language B will be greatly appreciated. I am asking for SL German B.
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