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Studies in language and literature

IB Mandarin 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
108

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 (非文学文本)6 lessons · free
  1. Text and contextText types, audience and purpose
  2. Text and contextRegister: 您 and 你, scripts and the Chinese-speaking world
  3. RhetoricPersuasion: questions, commands and parallelism
  4. RhetoricImagery: 比喻, 拟人, 借代, 夸张 and symbol
  5. RhetoricSound and contrast: 对偶, 对比, 双关, 反语
  6. Visual textsVisual and multimodal texts
Literary forms and the Chinese tradition (文学体裁与文学史)4 lessons
  1. PoetryPoetry: tones, couplets, ci and free verse
  2. NarrativeNarrative: the chapter novel, the short story and the narrator
  3. DramaDrama: opera, the spoken play, Cao Yu and Lao She
  4. PeriodsPeriods and movements: from the Book of Songs to today
Areas of exploration and concepts (探索领域与核心概念)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 (引导性文本分析)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

Try a question

From “Text types, audience and purpose”.

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

研究非文学文本时，“作品集”指的是什么？

  1. A脱离上下文的几个单句
  2. B文学作品的译本
  3. C全部写于1900年以前的文本
  4. D同一作者或机构创作的几篇相关的非文学文本
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D. 同一作者或机构创作的几篇相关的非文学文本

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

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