Languages A2, B and Ab Initio
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I've read the assessment criteria for paper 2 and the second is called Cultural Interaction, but it doesn't say much of culture there, it's more like "how convincing is the text?", "To what extent is rhetorical devices used?" etc etc. This makes me wonder why the criterion is called that and what do they mean? Do I have to know a lot about German life and culture or what's the point? I know that it's important to use "du" und "Sie" in the correct way, but would I get points of if I for example wrote that München is located in Austria? All this makes me so confused, I thought Language B was just about learning the language, not about having relevant ideas and good …
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I wanted to do this as my oral topic; "To what extent does summer camp really help in boosting children’s interpersonal skills in the United State? " The topic should be about the lifestyle of people in the anglophone country. That's why I chose US. And the oral topic should be argumentative. I know that summer camp brings lots of benefit. But I wanted to say, although it can develop independence and leadership skills; the social problem among teenagers still continue happen. There's a news about this entitled; "[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7725613.stm"]Teenager 'raped at summer camp[/url]'" I never go to any summer camp before. My count…
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I need to make a SWA about the book Lord of the Flies, but I have no idea of what to write about, I usually write quite creative SWA's but now I ran out of ideas ... what do you recommend???
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hey everyone, im not sure if all language B's do their orals at the same time, but if they do.. when are they? our school doesnt tell as anything about due dates, and im getting worried if they are sooner rather than later. ohh i live in Australia if that changes anything thank you!
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Hey everyone! So our french oral topics are do next week and i'm not quite sure what im doing yet... I want to do something related to Belgium because my mom is from there and i have been there many times however i'm having trouble narrowing down a topic... I was thinking about doing something related to WW2 because i've been to all the war museums and trenches there but my teacher said that might be too hard to talk about in the short time period and the fact that it was so long ago might make the language difficult for the question period. I was also maybe thinking Belgian cuisine (including beer of course haha). But i'm really torn. If anyone has any ideas at a…
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anyone have May 07 French B Paper 2??? thanks in advance!!
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Hola, My teacher says that I have my prueba 1 down pact... the reading comprehension... but she says I am weak in writing the 100 words part and my 400 word prueba 2.... por lo tanto, she told me to start writing some 200 word little essays and give them to my boyfriend to check. Well, she wants me to follow some prueba 2 ideas but I cant find the past prompts anywhere. She said she would give me some but the problem is that even though she trusts me she still uses those prompts for practice tests so she does not want to risk any cheating. So what I'm asking is if anyone has a link to past paper 2 prompts for spanish HL or maybe some prompts that thier teachers gave the…
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I will be starting IB next february (I study in Australia) and I am absolute overwhelmed by the thought of speaking for 10 minutes in my language B- Japanese. I've been doing Japanese for four years now and I guess I can be considered as above average when it comes to reading and speaking, but speaking (the pronunciation, intonation) is simply beyond me. I get so nervous during the oral tests I had this year that I either spoke really fast or forgot about the things I needed to say. Anyway, I am just wondering, does doing well (say getting a 6 or a 7) in language B require a high degree of fluency? What happens if you just don't understand what the teacher is talking ab…
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French SL or HL 1 2
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I dont know whether to take SL or HL. My teacher has been trying to convince me to take HL, but im worried that if i do, i may not get my diploma. So idk what to do?!?!?!
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Hello anyone who does an Ab Initio Japanese course could you please tell me what the semester exams are like?? I have a hunch it is a long じこしょかい on genkoyoshi paper or something... but the teacher hasnt mentioned it or aything ive got no idea :I plz help i want to start studying and memorizing kanji asap...
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I'm dropping french next semester so that I can study it on my own to get a better grade. Does anyone know of any books I should or sites that have sample tests or anything that would be useful? I'm fluent in french, so I don't need any of the basic stuff. Thank you!
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To anyone who has done the IA for Spanish Ab Initio or knows what it's all about - what is the IA all about? Interviews, right? Are they difficult?
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Hi everyone, I was talking to my Spanish teacher, and although she has so far given me perfect scores on my orals she says that I will probably NOT get a perfect score on the individual oral because she considers it an extremely rare occurrence (it has only happened once in the history of our school, and it was a native speaker). My question is, does this regularly occur in your schools, and [b]how can I become exposed to extremely higher level vocabulary and sentence structures that will persuade her to give me a perfect score[/b]? I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I consider myself good at Spanish, and my teacher has even given me the nickname "La Nativa", so I don…
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I really have to make a choice between French B Standard or Japanese Ab Initio. The most important thing for me is to get a very high grade and with as little work as possible, because I'm taking either French or Japanese at Standard level and I don't want to worry so much about these subjects as about Higher Level ones. The problem is that French B seems quite hard for me because everybody in my class has a much higher French knowledge than me. And even though I got an A* in IGCSE, I know that with my 2 years of French experience, I am simply hopeless at the language! And so I was looking for an alternative, but I can't take German Ab Initio (I have other lessons then) a…
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i have a title but i really cant find the right words to use, or if they are the right words im not sure about the order. the topic and research question is: L’uso della musica come tema principale e come sottofondo linguistico nel monologo Novecento di A. Baricco. Come viene usata la musica per esprimere emozioni e per raccontare la storia di Novecento? can anyone suggest anything?
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Approximately how much do you have to know apart from what is stated in the specific syllabus for spanish? It's hard to know when it looks like this, for instance: ASPECTO Y PERSONALIDAD Descripción física alto...; cara (ojos…); colores…; pelo (largo…); peso… Ropa camisa, pantalones…; llevar…; informal…, a rayas… Carácter simpático, hablador… Sentimientos esperar…; estar de buen humor…; sonreír…
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Hey everyone, Just wondering what type of work that you have been doing in French B SL?? This year we have a new teacher who is completely incompetant [the best out of a bad lot apparently]. He is Swiss German and speaks French and English as his third and fourth languages respectively. I feel like we are really not going through very fast or that we are being pushed enough. What level of french are you guys at?? -Thanks for the help in advance -Soph x
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Is it a big disadvantage to take B instead of A2?
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I'm planning to do mines on obesity in france..any suggestions on sub-topics and which direction I can go with this?
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My biggest problem in IB is my languages, I just don't like them at all and never did, therefore I am just no good at them. My subject are Math, Phy, Eco HL and Chem, Swe A1, Eng A2 SL so you can maybe see I am a bit of a science geek. My problem has never been speaking: I speak Dutch, Swedish and I would say English fluently but lack the writing skills. When I moved to Sweden I was the fastest one among my siblings to learn Swedish. Even though I hated our extra swedish lessons. What I tried to do instead was to talk and talk as much as possible during the lesson with my teacher so that she would never have me write or check my homework. Can now say this probebly worked…
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English A2 Written works Diary entries Newspaper articles Diary entries Two diary entries (Paper 2 task)Submitted by Scarlet Haag Grade awarded: 7 Written_Task_English_II.pdf Newspaper articles A newspaper article about obesity and smoking (Paper 2 task)Submitted by Scarlet Haag Grade awarded: 7 Written_Task_English.pdf
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