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IB Korean 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
172
Key terms
109

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: 이에요 / 예요, particles and -고
  2. IdentitiesLifestyles and health: the 해요 style, 안 and 못
  3. IdentitiesLanguage and belonging: speech levels and honorifics
  4. IdentitiesBeliefs and values: opinions, -아야 하다, -지만 and -아도
Experiences3 lessons
  1. ExperiencesTelling a story: the past, -고 있었어요 and -(으)ㄴ 적이 있어요
  2. ExperiencesHolidays and travel: -고 싶어요, -아/어 보다, -(으)면서 and -거나
  3. ExperiencesCustoms and festivals: giving and receiving
Human ingenuity3 lessons
  1. Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparisons
  2. Human ingenuityArts and entertainment: -(으)ㄹ 수 있다, -기 쉽다 and 한류
  3. Human ingenuityScience and the future: -(으)ㄹ 거예요, -(으)ㄹ지도 몰라요 and -(으)면
Social organization3 lessons
  1. Social organizationEducation and work: rules, permission and -기 위해서
  2. Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: the passive
  3. Social organizationRules and relationships: the causative, 선배 and 후배
Sharing the planet2 SL · 3 HL lessons
  1. Sharing the planetThe environment: connectors and reasons
  2. Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalisation: -에 대해 and -뿐만 아니라
  3. Sharing the planetHL: reporting the news: the written style and reported speechHL
Text types4 lessons
  1. Text typesAudience, purpose and register: 높임말
  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: 이에요 / 예요, particles and -고”.

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

‘조용하다’를 명사 앞에 쓸 때 맞는 것은 무엇입니까?

  1. A조용한 사람
  2. B조용하는 사람
  3. C조용하고 사람
  4. D조용해 사람
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A. 조용한 사람

Before a noun a descriptive verb takes -(으)ㄴ: 조용한 사람 "a quiet person". -는 is for action verbs (공부하는 사람 "a person who studies").

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