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IB Japanese 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.

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Units
7
SL lessons
23
HL lessons
26
Questions
165
Key terms
102

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
  1. IdentitiesDescribing people: adjectives and the て-form
  2. IdentitiesLifestyles and health: 〜ようにする and 〜すぎる
  3. IdentitiesLanguage and belonging: speech styles and dialects
  4. IdentitiesBeliefs and values: opinions, 〜べきだ, 〜のに and 〜ても
Experiences3 lessons
  1. ExperiencesTelling a story: 〜た, 〜ていた and 〜たことがある
  2. ExperiencesHolidays and travel: 〜たり〜たり, 〜てみる and 〜ながら
  3. ExperiencesCustoms and festivals: giving and receiving
Human ingenuity3 lessons
  1. Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparisons
  2. Human ingenuityArts and entertainment: the potential form, 〜やすい and 〜にくい
  3. Human ingenuityScience and the future: 〜たら, 〜ば, 〜と and 〜なら
Social organization3 lessons
  1. Social organizationEducation and work: obligation and 〜ために
  2. Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: the passive
  3. Social organizationRules and relationships: the causative
Sharing the planet2 SL · 3 HL lessons
  1. Sharing the planetThe environment: connectors and building an argument
  2. Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalisation: 〜にとって and 〜わけではない
  3. Sharing the planetHL: reporting the news: the written registerHL
Text types4 lessons
  1. Text typesAudience, purpose and register: 敬語
  2. Text typesLetters and emails
  3. Text typesDiaries, blogs, news reports and reviews
  4. Text typesSpeeches, interviews and brochures
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. Paper 2HL: reading literature: sound words, similes and feelingsHL
  6. Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL

Try a question

From “Describing people: adjectives and the て-form”.

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

「いい」の過去形（かこけい）はどれですか。

  1. Aいいだった
  2. Bよいでした
  3. Cよかった
  4. Dいかった
Show the answer

C. よかった

いい is irregular and uses the stem よ-: よかった "was good", よくない "not good". *いかった is a common mistake.

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