Forty5
EN
Open the app

Studies in language and literature

IB French A: Language and Literature SL and HL

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

Start free See plans
Units
5
SL lessons
22
HL lessons
25
Questions
183
Key terms
95

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.

Non-literary texts (textes non littéraires)6 lessons · free
  1. Text and contextText types, audience and purpose
  2. Text and contextRegister: tu, vous and the French-speaking world
  3. RhetoricPersuasion: questions, commands and repetition
  4. RhetoricImagery: métaphore, comparaison, personnification, métonymie
  5. RhetoricSound and contrast: allitération, antithèse, ironie
  6. Visual textsVisual and multimodal texts
Literary forms and the French tradition (genres littéraires)4 lessons
  1. PoetryPoetry: syllables, the alexandrine, rhyme and the sonnet
  2. NarrativeNarrative: the novel, the short story and the narrator
  3. DramaDrama: classical theatre, Molière and the absurd
  4. PeriodsPeriods and movements: from Roland to the francophone world
Areas of exploration and concepts (axes d’étude et concepts)5 lessons
  1. Course overviewThe course, the reading list and works in translation
  2. Areas of explorationReaders, writers and texts; time and space
  3. Areas of explorationIntertextuality: connecting texts
  4. ConceptsIdentity, culture, creativity and communication
  5. ConceptsPerspective, transformation and representation
Paper 1: guided textual analysis (analyse de texte guidée)3 SL · 4 HL lessons
  1. Paper 1Paper 1 at a glance
  2. Paper 1Planning and writing the analysis
  3. Paper 1Practice: an unseen appeal
  4. Paper 1HL Paper 1: two texts, two analysesHL
Paper 2, the individual oral and the HL essay4 SL · 6 HL lessons
  1. Paper 2Paper 2 at a glance
  2. Paper 2Comparing and structuring
  3. Individual oralThe individual oral
  4. Individual oralBuilding the oral
  5. HL essayThe HL essay: a line of inquiryHL
  6. HL essayWriting the HL essayHL

Try a question

From “Text types, audience and purpose”.

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

Que signifie « corpus » dans l’étude des textes non littéraires ?

  1. ADes textes tous écrits avant 1900
  2. BPlusieurs textes non littéraires liés, d’un même auteur ou producteur
  3. CDes phrases isolées sorties de leur contexte
  4. DDes traductions d’œuvres littéraires
Show the answer

B. Plusieurs textes non littéraires liés, d’un même auteur ou producteur

A body of work groups related non-literary texts by one author or producer, such as one brand’s campaign.

Start French A Lang & Lit today.

The first unit is free. No card needed.

Open Forty5