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Studies in language and literature

IB Urdu 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
127

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 (غیر ادبی متون)6 lessons · free
  1. Text and contextText types, audience and purpose
  2. Text and contextRegister: آپ, تم, تُو and the Urdu-speaking world
  3. RhetoricPersuasion: questions, commands and repetition
  4. RhetoricImagery: tashbih, isti’ara, majaz and kinaya
  5. RhetoricSound and contrast: tajnis, iham, tazad and satire
  6. Visual textsVisual texts: image, script and layout
Literary forms and the Urdu tradition (اصناف اور ادوار)4 lessons
  1. PoetryPoetry: the ghazal, bahr, the nazm and the marsiya
  2. NarrativeNarrative: the dastan, the novel, the afsana and the narrator
  3. DramaDrama: from Inder Sabha and the Parsi theatre to Ajoka
  4. PeriodsSchools and movements: from the Deccan to today
Areas of exploration and concepts (مطالعے کے دائرے اور تصورات)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 (رہنمائی کے ساتھ متن کا تجزیہ)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 Urdu, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.

غیر ادبی متون کے مطالعے میں "مجموعۂ متون" سے کیا مراد ہے؟

  1. Aایک ہی مصنف یا ادارے کے کئی باہم مربوط غیر ادبی متون
  2. Bسیاق و سباق کے بغیر الگ الگ جملے
  3. Cادبی تخلیقات کے ترجمے
  4. D1900 سے پہلے لکھے گئے متون
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A. ایک ہی مصنف یا ادارے کے کئی باہم مربوط غیر ادبی متون

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

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