Languages A Language & Literature
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I'm writing up my written task one however, I wasn't given any clear guidance with the rationale for my piece. This is the first written task I've done. How do I write it? What do I include? Are there any specific pieces of information that I need to include? Thank you!
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I have to turn in my WT1 first draft in two weeks and I want to write about language and power, and perhaps write a blog / editorial. The problem is, I'm not very sure whether the topic I've chosen corresponds to the marking criterias. I want to write about the influence and status of English in China, but as English is not one of China's official languages, there isn't a very big conflict around this particular topic. Most of my classmates seem to be writing about different variants of English and their status in the world. So I'm wondering if any of you guys know whether my topic is okay for WT1?
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Hello! I am going to write my first written task 2 very soon and was hoping I could get some advice. I have decided to write about Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is one of the works we have studied and the one I liked the most. I am thinking about doing question 3) How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Here I could discuss how the social group of Kambili (the main character), which is rich and catholic, compares to the social group of her Grandfather and Aunt, which is more focused on the old Gods of Nigeria and are not very rich. Do you think this is a good idea? Am I on the right track?
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Hey, I have to decide my subjects in a few months. For english, I had originally decided to take SL language and literature, as I haven't studied literature at gcse level. However, after looking through the IB options booklet, I realized that Lang and Lit is 70% exam, where as Lit is only 45%. Which is easier?? English is not something I really enjoy and I'm just looking for an easy way out. Pls recommend appropriate. Thanks
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heyyyyyy, May I know where can I get some examples of WT from students for english? I cant seem to find anything on google...I only found the rationale, but I dont really need help with that... thanksss
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Hey! I was looking for tips for the IOC (internal oral commentary) because we are going to do ours in a few weeks ( ) and I realized there are no threads with advice for it! I was wondering if someone could give me some tips on how to structure the IOC, and how much time I should aim to spend talking about the stylistic and literary devices in the 40-line passage itself.
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Just a short introduction: I am: 10th grader, German, living in England, going to do the IB next year. *Note: LangLit = abbreviation for 'Language and Literature' Lit = abbreviation for 'Literature' I already have an exact idea of all the courses I want to do in the IB (HL: Maths, Physics, English A course and SL: German A LangLit, Chemistry, Economics). The only uncertainties I have are relating to the choice of my language course choices. I am 100% sure that I will do the 'German A Language and Literature' as this is the only German course my school offers (Please don't understand me wrongly, I do appreciate the fact that they actually give us this opportunit…
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So, I'm an IB Junior and I have to start working on my English IOP for The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien today. I wasn't sure where to start, so I asked my teacher and she said to start with a thesis. However, I'm awful at writing these. I've already decided on a topic and picked out a bunch of quotes/passages that I want to talk about, but I don't know how to form this into and organized presentation. The topic (or thread) I've chosen is the relationship between courage and pride in the novel. For example, one of the passages I want to use is when Norman Bowker is describing all the medals he received, but how he didn't receive the silver star. "And his [bowker'…
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Hi , I have done my gce o levels in 10th grade and never took literature as a subject, currently I am struggling with Shakespeare and analysing poetry and prose, so any advice on how I should improve my analytical skills and are there any books which have practices and etc.???
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Hello Everyone! I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to fully annotate poems, i.e. what to start with, and what important things to note. Anything that can help really. Thank you all :3
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Yeah, I need some help and opinions on my written task. so.... can you guys personally message me and i shall send forth my WT. I NEED HELP PRONTO
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Hey guys, I've got my first FOA coming up this Monday and i'll be doing mine about the song 'Freedom of Speech' by Immortal technique (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYbZZTEwiM) I'm a bit nervous since this is my first FOA that i've ever done. I've been told by my teacher not to do a 'line-by-line' analysis of the song but I should rather focus mainly on the main ideas and also to draw multiple conclusions from the themes that I find in the song. The activity that i'm planning to do is to by re-enact an interview and when I say something sensitive, the interviewer would take out a double meaning of that sentence and say something with a different meaning which I had inte…
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So we are about to start on the first written task, and I'm going to write an interview with the creator/s of the series skins on their chosen use of language and slang among the teens in the show to emphasize the culture. I really don't know how to start... any ideas on how to write this? What kind of questions should "I" ask? All help greatly appreciated!
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im going to write WT2 on the old man and the sea i ve chosen the first question: How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? please help me with 2 different types of reader, i just have no idea
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Hi guys, writing my first written assignment soon, However, first, I have to write a rationale. As this is my first time, I'm freaking out. The topics that are available for me are "What I am" by Eminem, "Ice Ice baby" by Vanilla ice, the telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka, River of blood speech by Enoch Powell. I am leaning towards Eminem's "What I am" but I don't know what I should write about. Having seen examples from the forum, many people have opted to write diaries based on poems or works of literature. However, I don't see an applicable written task that I can write based on this. Please give in any suggestions or comments or just help me to the extent of yo…
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So, i need advice on how to write an open letter. my written task is to write an open letter to Russian president putin regarding the violence in Russia against the gay community, and to ask him to remove these laws. it is an open letter, so it means it is written to the specific person but also intended for publication. it is cultural because it refers to the traditional values clashing with the more liberal values about gay people. it is supposed to be persuasive, however it must also be diplomatic. could you please help me in terms of knowing what type of language to use, and some key points for my body paragraphs?
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Hey fellow IBers, could you please give me some tips on how to write a good outline for an essay? Also, if any of you know any tips on supervised writing, could you please give me some tips on that as well? Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi guys, does anyone have the May 2011 past year papers for English A1 SL?
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Hey. I'm supposed to write my English (HL) written task 2. I was absent so I don't know much about it. Can anyone tell me what it is supposed to be like in terms of content we write? And where do we get the essay titles from? And explain every bit of it to if you can.
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Hi guys, So I have been trying to write my Works in translation essay. I was going great with my introduction but, my brain just stopped when I came to write the main body. Even though I structured the paragraphs and gave each paragraph a specific topic, I still don't know how to begin the paragraph or how to write the topic sentence. Does anybody have any tips or advice ? Thanks
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So, I am stuck on choosing a proper written task topic for my imaginative piece. I want to write an opinionated column on a specific taboo topic (which I need help in finding) Can someone list the text types available, and GUIDE ME THROUGH THIS PLEASE?
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My oral exams start next tuesday. Does anyone know what exaclty do I need to talk about during my book extract analysis? Stylistic devices and such..
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So, I personally think I have the worst English teacher in the world. Our class "doesn't have time" to do four WT1's, we weren't given a syllabus, we have no idea what themes we are doing and it appears to take the teacher (not the class) a week to go over things most teachers would cover in a day. Most of the class spends the lessons with nothing to do, because there is not nearly enough work set. In any case, enough ranting: We have been "set" a WT1, where the teacher has given us a very specific topic and subject (Hamlet's wedding speech to Ophelia). From what I understood from the OSC course guide (the only material I have been able to find) the subject and topic of …
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Hey guys, I am doing A streetcar named desire in English Language and Literature and my teacher has set me with some homwork which I am struggling with. This is what she gave me: Tennessee Williams assigns color imagery to many of the characters in the play "A Streetcar Named Desire." Describe how his use of this literary device adds depth to the character development using specific examples from the text. Does anyone have an idea? I need a quick answer! Thanks
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Hello! I will be writing a Written Task 2 soon and I was wondering what other people had experienced when having to write this essay. How complicated is it? Is it better to write it on a literature piece or in an article from the language part? Which of the questions did you choose? Thanks in advance!
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We're going to start reading The Great Gatsby. Our teacher has given us a research project, each two classmates have a different topic to research and they must teach the class about it. Each group will be given five minutes. The topic she's chosen center around what was happening when The Great Gatsby was written (context). She has the chosen "The 19th Amendment" for me and my classmate. Here's what she's written on the assignment: During your presentation, be sure to point out the information you consider most vital. This information will be on a quiz. Work must be MLA cited. The nineteenth amendment was made effective in 1920. Trace the history of the women's suffrage…
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Hey guys, I am doing A streetcar named desire in English Language and Literature and my teacher has set me with some homwork which I am struggling with. This is what she gave me: Tennessee Williams assigns color imagery to many of the characters in the play "A Streetcar Named Desire." Describe how his use of this literary device adds depth to the character development using specific examples from the text. Does anyone have an idea? I need a quick answer! Thanks
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SO heres my topic: Strindbergs portrayal of misguidance and deception through Jean and Julie's relationship in "Miss Julie". I want to know how to tackle this topic What to avoid, what to include etc And other tips Thank you (I'm in English HL)
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Hello everyone! I am doing my FOA pretty soon, and I am basing it on the presentation "A call to men" by Tony Porter in TED Talks. I was wondering if anyone had any tips about how to fulfil the first and second criteria for this task. How can I analyse a text properly and show it in my presentation? Thanks in advance!
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Hello everyone. I'm doing my EE in group 3 of Lang and Lit, which focuses more on media and it's effect rather than a thematic analysis of a book, perhaps. I was wondering if anyone has done this before, and if you could please give me some tips or good references. If you could refer me to where I can read good past papers, that would be amazing. Thank you all. Have a great summer!
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Hello guys , Can you please help me out by telling me how to answer the English paper 1 and Paper 2. what are the topics to be dealt when analysing and if it is the same when doing the individual Oral Activity ? Thnx Keshuv19
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Hey guys, I have yet another question. I'm sort of nervous about taking English Lang& Lit next year. Any advice guys? Is it really difficult? What books are you reading?
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Hey everyone! This is my first post, and it was encouraged by the impending due date of my WT1. My class has just finished Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the written task on it is due Thursday. And I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do it on. Any ideas would be most welcome. Thank you everyone, and have a good day.
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Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone knew where I could get my hands on a copy on the list of prescribed authors for IB? I would like to know if some of the books I'm reading in my own time qualify as an independent reading material for English. Thanks in advance!
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Hey guys! By this friday, i hopefully need to have though of the topic of my IOP! Very Scary! I am thinking of doing mine on Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, and thinking that it wont be one of the creative options (yeah im boring ) but like an explanation or something on the reversal of gender roles and what Esquivel is saying through that. Im thinking of perhaps focusing on the reversed gender roles of the females rather than talking about it from both sides (we need to make our topic specific apparently) and talk about not just characterization but also the structure of the book etc. What have you guys done in the past/are planning on doing/or can suggest i…
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HEYY, I am doing my FOA on the poem 'Morning Song' By Sylvia Plath. This is our first FOA and is based on part 1 of the course (Language in cultural context). The learning outcome I have chosen is: “How does the audience and purpose affect the structure and content of ‘Morning Song’ by Sylvia Plath?” Our teacher gave us a few guiding questions: Guiding questions a. How can language be gender-biased? b. How does language reinforce stereotypes or culturally received ideas about what different genders do, and don't do, think and don't think? c. Does language reflect our world, or does it create it? Is English really a non-sexist language because it has n…
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Hi everyone! I need your help, I'm doing my global paper about advertisement, but refeering particularly to McDonal's. It is like an extract taken from a newspaper. the problem is that I'm stuk! I've wrote just 400 words and I've to write at least 1200
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Can anyone please give me some pointers on what exactly is to be done for the Outline of the Written Task 2? I'm so lost and I don't know what to do, is it similar to the Rationale for Written Task 1? Thanks in advance!
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Hi! So I have my paper 1 on Friday afternoon and Paper 2 on the following Monday morning. How are you guys revising because there are no past papers and I have done the specimen papers? For paper 1, is it only going to be non fiction? And for paper 2, since I have a play and a novel, do I only have a choice from the general literature section? Thanks a lot and good luck for any exams left! Enora
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My language A is modern Greek and im a HL and tomorrow I have paper one so I want a last-tip. How many words should I write in the analysis???
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URGENT PLEASE HELP Hey, So I have my first paper 1 exam coming up and would really appreciate some help with the revision process because i have been battling this year with english... anyone have good revision notes that they are willing to share? thanks
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Written Task Written Task 1--opinion column
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Hello, is there anyone here who knows if I could write an opinion column about how advertisement affects people? This is for my first written task, I really don't know if it is a good idea. If yes, how should the structure of the main body be? Anything concrete which I should emphasize? Thanks in advance
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For Paper 2 of English A: Language and Literature , would it be possible to use one text out of the two which has not been taught by the school to me, but rather I have self-studied it, as long as it fits the PLA?
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English Lang and Lit HL Paper two today.... any last tips on structure ? Thanks !
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Chronicle of a Death foretold, Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart?
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I have a few questions on the course syllabus and everything, if anyone wanted to share their experience with this class...
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I just moved to Iran a few months ago. Before moving here I was in a Spanish speaking country so I had Spanish Language and Literature classes, now in my school here they only offer English and Persian Lit, so my IB Coordinator told me to take up self-taught Spanish Lit. Doing this means RE-DOING basically everything in IB2 (the second year) so I was wondering whether I could take self-taught language and literature instead of just Literature? (L+L is easier to me than just Lit) I'm SL by the way.
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Hi, I am having my English A1 exam, paper 2 on Friday. I am stuck and really really need help. We have studied three books; kiss of the spider woman, the yacoubian building and wuthering heights. I have no idea how to study for the exam and what to look for in these three books. Also, it would mean a lot if anyone could contribute or discuss (or give any idea) about these three books! And also any tips on how to write a good paper 2 I really need help Thanks and good luck to everyone!
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Okay, So my teacher hasn't done a good job in explaining what goes here. Can anyone just briefly explain how to start the essay properly? Also, how to do the conclusion? Thank you in advance
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Hey peeps.. 3 days till our IB's now... I need a lil help regarding some of the important quotes that i might need to remember for my paper 2 exam. Im studying, The Great Gatsby, Chronicles of a Death Foretold and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest I have already made note of a few important quotes.. however i need to find some in relation to possibly some themes and motifs in the respective novels.. The common themes include: Role of Society Gender Bias/Discrimination Position of a woman in the society American Dream ( The Great Gatsby) Machismo (Chronicles) There are many more.. It would be great if you could help me with possibly a few quotes from the above themes or maybe…
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