Language acquisition
IB Italian B SL and HL
23 lessons at SL. 26 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.
- Units
- 7
- SL lessons
- 23
- HL lessons
- 26
- Questions
- 172
- Key terms
- 100
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.
Identities4 lessons · free
- IdentitiesDescribing yourself: the present tense, gender and articles
- IdentitiesLifestyles and health: reflexive verbs and frequency
- IdentitiesSubcultures and belonging: articulated prepositions and possessives
- IdentitiesBeliefs, values and language: opinions and the subjunctive
Experiences3 lessons
- ExperiencesTelling a story: the passato prossimo with avere or essere
- ExperiencesHolidays and travel: the imperfetto and the passato prossimo
- ExperiencesCustoms, traditions and life experiences
Human ingenuity3 lessons
- Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparatives and superlatives
- Human ingenuityEntertainment and the arts: piacere and the object pronouns
- Human ingenuityScience and the future: the future and the conditional
Social organization3 lessons
- Social organizationEducation and work: modal verbs
- Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: the imperative
- Social organizationRules and relationships: ci and ne
Sharing the planet2 SL · 3 HL lessons
- Sharing the planetThe environment: building an argument
- Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalisation: relative pronouns
- Sharing the planetHL: reporting the news: the passive and reported speechHL
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: the passato remoto and the gerundHL
- Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL
Try a question
From “Describing yourself: the present tense, gender and articles”.
Questions are in Italian, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.
Quale articolo è corretto davanti a «studente»?
Show the answer
D. lo studente
Masculine nouns starting with s + consonant take lo: lo studente, plural gli studenti.
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