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Studies in language and literature

IB German 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.

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Units
5
SL lessons
22
HL lessons
25
Questions
183
Key terms
112

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 (Sachtexte)6 lessons · free
  1. Text and contextText types, audience and purpose
  2. Text and contextRegister: du, Sie and the German-speaking world
  3. RhetoricPersuasion: questions, commands and repetition
  4. RhetoricImagery: Metapher, Vergleich, Personifikation, Metonymie
  5. RhetoricSound and contrast: Alliteration, Antithese, Ironie
  6. Visual textsVisual and multimodal texts
Literary forms and the German tradition (Gattungen und Epochen)4 lessons
  1. PoetryPoetry: metre, rhyme, the sonnet and the ballad
  2. NarrativeNarrative: the novel, the Novelle, the Kurzgeschichte and the narrator
  3. DramaDrama: the closed form, the bürgerliches Trauerspiel and Brecht
  4. PeriodsPeriods and movements: from the Nibelungenlied to today
Areas of exploration and concepts (Untersuchungsbereiche und Konzepte)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 (gelenkte Textanalyse)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

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From “Text types, audience and purpose”.

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

Was bedeutet „Textkorpus“ bei der Untersuchung von Sachtexten?

  1. AÜbersetzungen literarischer Werke
  2. BTexte, die alle vor 1900 geschrieben wurden
  3. CMehrere zusammengehörige Sachtexte eines Autors oder Produzenten
  4. DEinzelne Sätze ohne ihren Zusammenhang
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C. Mehrere zusammengehörige Sachtexte eines Autors oder Produzenten

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

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