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IB English B SL and HL

25 lessons at SL. 28 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.

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Units
7
SL lessons
25
HL lessons
28
Questions
195
Key terms
110

What you will study

Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.

Identities3 lessons · free
  1. IdentitiesDescribing people and lifestyles: present simple and continuous
  2. IdentitiesHealth and well-being: articles and countable nouns
  3. IdentitiesBeliefs, values and language: opinions and verb patterns
Experiences3 lessons
  1. ExperiencesTelling a story: the narrative past tenses
  2. ExperiencesLife experiences: present perfect or past simple?
  3. ExperiencesTravel, customs and migration: used to and phrasal verbs
Human ingenuity3 lessons
  1. Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparatives and superlatives
  2. Human ingenuityEntertainment and artistic expression: relative clauses
  3. Human ingenuityScience, innovation and the future: future forms
Social organization3 lessons
  1. Social organizationEducation and the working world: modal verbs
  2. Social organizationCommunity and social engagement: phrasal verbs
  3. Social organizationLaw, order and rules: the passive
Sharing the planet3 SL · 4 HL lessons
  1. Sharing the planetThe environment: conditionals
  2. Sharing the planetHuman rights, equality and globalisation: reported speech
  3. Sharing the planetUrban and rural life: modals of deduction
  4. Sharing the planetHL: persuasive argument: emphasis, inversion and hedgingHL
Text types, audience and register6 lessons
  1. Text typesAudience, purpose, context and register
  2. Text typesEmails and letters: formal and informal
  3. Text typesBlogs, diary entries and social media posts
  4. Text typesArticles, reviews and essays
  5. Text typesSpeeches, interviews, reports and proposals
  6. Text typesBrochures, leaflets and instructions
Assessment: papers and the individual oral4 SL · 6 HL lessons
  1. Paper 1Paper 1: productive writing
  2. Paper 2Paper 2: listening
  3. Paper 2Paper 2: reading
  4. Individual oralThe individual oral: structure and the SL visual stimulus
  5. LiteratureHL: reading literature in EnglishHL
  6. Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL

Try a question

From “Describing people and lifestyles: present simple and continuous”.

Questions are in English, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.

Which sentence uses the verbs "belong" and "like" correctly?

  1. AI am belong to a hiking club and I am really like it.
  2. BI belong to a hiking club and I really like it.
  3. CI am belonging to a hiking club and I am really liking it.
  4. DI belonging to a hiking club and I really liking it.
Show the answer

B. I belong to a hiking club and I really like it.

Belong and like are state verbs, so they stay in the present simple: I belong, I like.

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The first unit is free. No card needed.

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