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Studies in language and literature

IB Russian 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
115

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 (нехудожественные тексты)6 lessons · free
  1. Text and contextText types, audience and purpose
  2. Text and contextRegister: ты, вы and the Russian-speaking world
  3. RhetoricPersuasion: questions, commands and repetition
  4. RhetoricImagery: метафора, сравнение, олицетворение, метонимия
  5. RhetoricSound and contrast: аллитерация, антитеза, ирония
  6. Visual textsVisual and multimodal texts
Literary forms and the Russian tradition (роды, жанры и эпохи)4 lessons
  1. PoetryPoetry: metre, rhyme, the Onegin stanza and free verse
  2. NarrativeNarrative: the novel, the short story and the narrator
  3. DramaDrama: from Griboyedov and Gogol to Chekhov
  4. PeriodsPeriods and movements: from Old Rus to today
Areas of exploration and concepts (области исследования и понятия)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 (направленный анализ текста)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 Russian, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.

Что такое «корпус текстов» при изучении нехудожественных текстов?

  1. AПереводы художественных произведений
  2. BТексты, написанные до 1900 года
  3. CНесколько связанных нехудожественных текстов одного автора или создателя
  4. DОтдельные предложения без контекста
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C. Несколько связанных нехудожественных текстов одного автора или создателя

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

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