IB at QASMT
Part 1: Language in a Cultural Context
Part 2: Language in Mass Communication
Part 3: Texts and Contexts
Part 4: Critical Study
100
The two courses offered in Group 1 at QASMT
What are the English Literature and English Language and Literature courses?
100
The attitudes, beliefs, and customs that distinguish one group from another
What is culture?
100
Examples of these include newspapers, television programmes, and magazines
What is the media?
100
The playwright who wrote 'The Crucible'
Who is Arthur Miller?
100
A famous anti-war Australian poet and author of famous works such as 'Homecoming'
Who is Bruce Dawe?
200
These people approach unfamiliar situations and uncertainty with courage and forethought.
Who are risk-takers?
200
The theory that the English language is becoming a global commodity.
What is globalisation of the English language?
200
The attributes that people think characterise a specific group of people, eg women
What is stereotyping?
200
The cultural, historical, and social references significant to understanding a work
What is context?
200
The rhyming of two or more stressed vowels in poetry
What is assonance?
300
The scale of numbers on which the IB courses are graded
What is 1-7?
300
The requirement for students to think about their choices in the written work they've created for the course.
What is a rationale?
300
A phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others.
What is the bandwagon effect?
300
Chilean playwright who wrote 'Death and the Maiden'
Who is Ariel Dorfman?
300
The playwright who wrote 'Macbeth'
Who is Shakespeare?
400
Formative and summative are two examples.
What are assessments?
400
The way an author uses sentiment or language to convey a purpose
What are stylistic devices?
400
The internal assessment in English Language and Literature
What is the Further Oral Activity?
400
A written work which utilises stage directions, dialogue, and props
What is a play?
400
The act of closely interpreting the purpose of a text using key words and phrases from the work
What is analysis?
500
10 attributes of the IB learner profile
What are risk-taker, inquirer, thinker, caring, principled, open-minded, balanced, reflective, communicator, and knowledgeable?
500
A close analysis of an extract of a written work to understand its purpose, target audience, and context
What is a written commentary (Paper 1)?
500
The IB moderated activities in English Language and Literature
What are the Creative Written Task and Individual Oral Commentary?
500
An essay in which you look at similarities and differences across two texts
What is a comparative essay (Paper 2)?
500
When an actor or actress is sharing his or her innermost thoughts or feelings onstage
What is a soliloquy?
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