Language acquisition
IB French B 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.
- Units
- 7
- SL lessons
- 22
- HL lessons
- 25
- Questions
- 158
- Key terms
- 87
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.
Identities (Identités)3 lessons · free
- IdentitiesDescribing people: être, avoir and adjectives
- IdentitiesLifestyles and health: the present tense
- IdentitiesBeliefs, values and language: giving opinions
Experiences (Expériences)3 lessons
- ExperiencesTelling a story: passé composé and imparfait
- ExperiencesHolidays and travel: irregular participles and variation
- ExperiencesCustoms, traditions and life experiences
Human ingenuity (Ingéniosité humaine)3 lessons
- Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparisons
- Human ingenuityEntertainment and the arts: object pronouns
- Human ingenuityScience and the future: future and conditional
Social organization (Organisation sociale)3 lessons
- Social organizationEducation and work: the pronouns y and en
- Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: the imperative
- Social organizationRules and relationships: the present subjunctive
Sharing the planet (Partage de la planète)2 SL · 3 HL lessons
- Sharing the planetThe environment: building an argument
- Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalization: relative pronouns
- Sharing the planetHL: hypotheses and regretsHL
Text types, audience and register4 lessons
- Text typesAudience, purpose and register
- Text typesEmails and letters
- Text typesBlogs, articles and reviews
- Text typesSpeeches, interviews and brochures
Assessment: papers and the individual oral4 SL · 6 HL lessons
- Paper 1Paper 1: productive writing
- Paper 2Paper 2: listening
- Paper 2Paper 2: reading
- Individual oralThe individual oral: structure and the SL visual stimulus
- LiteratureHL: reading literature and the passé simpleHL
- Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL
Try a question
From “Describing people: être, avoir and adjectives”.
Questions are in French, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.
Quelle phrase signifie « She is afraid of the dark » ?
Show the answer
A. Elle a peur du noir
Fear is avoir peur de, and de + le contracts to du: Elle a peur du noir.
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