Diploma del Bachillerato Internacional · IB Diploma
Language B · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papeles, muestras y documentos curriculares para este curso.
Course units and learning goals · Unidades del curso y objetivos de aprendizaje
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas lecciones enseñan objetivos del curso seleccionados. Revisa los vacíos de cobertura restantes; el material no es un programa completo de preparación.
Productive skills; five themes · English audience, register and purposeful writing
- Choose an appropriate text type and register
- Organize an English response that addresses purpose, audience and required content
- register
- Language choices suited to audience and situation.
- proposal
- A text recommending a plan with reasons and practical details.
Receptive skills · English listening and reading inference
- Identify stated details, speaker purpose and supported inference
- Use context to resolve unfamiliar vocabulary and distinguish fact from opinion
- inference
- A conclusion supported by clues rather than stated directly.
- contrast marker
- A word or phrase signalling a difference or qualification.
Interactive skills · English oral communication and follow-up
- Describe and interpret a stimulus with a cultural connection
- Respond to questions and develop an interaction in English
- stimulus
- Material used to prompt a response or discussion.
- interaction
- Communication in which participants respond to each other.
HL literature · English literary extract and oral development
- Interpret an extract from one of two studied literary works
- Connect character, voice and situation to sustained English discussion
- implication
- Meaning suggested without being stated directly.
- literary extract
- A short passage taken from a literary work.
Preparing for this qualification · Preparación para esta cualificación
- Writing Paper 1 25%, listening and reading Paper 2 50%, individual oral 25%. SL writing 75 min (250–400 words), HL 90 min (450–600 words); HL studies two literary works and uses a literary extract for the oral.
- Teach English B for the Chinese ESL audience, supported by the official English B specimens. Themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization, sharing the planet. Future 2029 briefs are not the 2026 assessment model.
Teaching coverage still needed · Cobertura docente aún necesaria
- English listening audio, full five-theme progression, language accuracy sequence, two HL literary works and complete official paper review remain.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Especificaciones y documentos de muestra
- Language B — Subject brief · 2029 ↗
First assessment: 2029
- Language B — Subject brief · 2020 ↗
First assessment: 2020
- Language B — Specimen papers · 2020 ↗
First assessment: 2020
Course materials · Materiales del curso
- Study notes · Notas de estudio →
- Revision questions · Preguntas de repaso →
- Teaching guidance · Guía docente · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnóstico del profesor · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
- Supervised task guidance · Guía de tareas supervisadas · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
Course preparation · Preparación del curso
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Los documentos están disponibles. Las notas específicas de la entidad evaluadora, las evaluaciones y la práctica interactiva deantiguos exámenes no están disponibles aún para todos los cursos.
Lessons · Lecciones →