Start lesson + IB themes 2021-2022

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

WELCOME TO THAVO4!

Pre-exam year

Prep. for:

-CE

- FCE/CAE

- IB

TEAMS

Join our class' TEAM via this code: ul1wo05

Here you will find all materials used in class and the study planner. 
 

Study Planner

See TEAMS

Materials:

• Gold Experience B2+

• IB English B Guide

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (term 1)

• All My Sons (Term 2, N.B. SE TH4 10% + Individual oral in TH5!!!)

• Handouts provided by teacher (all handouts will also be available in TEAMS)

• English B for the IB Diploma Coursebook (provided by teacher)

International Baccelaureate

- two year course

IB Learner Profile: 

Inquirers

Knowledgable

Thinkers

Communicators

Principled

Open-Minded

Caring

Risk-Takers

Balanced

Reflective

Academic Honesty

- Plagiarism = 1.0!!!!!!

- Caught by IB = no diploma, plus severe problems for the school….

- Next week: sign Academic Honesty form

IB Themes:

- Identities (TH4 period 1)

- Experiences (TH4 period 2)

- Sharing the planet (TH4 period 3)

- Social Organisation (TH5 period 4)

- Human Ingenuity (TH5 period 5)

What do you think is part of YOUR identity?

learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org

Experiences

Handout 'Gap-year-experience'

BLOG!

https://www.thinkib.net/files/englishb/files/Gap-year-experience.pdf

What new experiences have you had during summer break?

Blog Experiences

This text is a good example of the blog as short effective anecdote. It is a mini-short story, with a point. 

Take a look at how it is structured, brief paragraphs, (one to each stage in the story), and how it is expressed (informal and colloquial language, sounding like someone telling a take orally). 

Write two paragraphs of a similar blog, dealing with an experience that is disagreeable but instructive - or instructive but disagreeable, as you prefer! It can be a real personal experience of their own, or (more easily) an imagined story of themselves in an unpleasant situation.

Sharing???

- implies 'cooperating', as in 'sharing things out fairly'? or...

- 'competing', as in 'fighting for scarce resources'?

- is 'sharing' essentially morally driven - or is it practically driven?

- do human beings like sharing? Evidence, for and against?

The planet???

do we view 'the planet' principally as an ecosystem? or...

as a social system? or...

as an economic system? or...

as a political system? or...

all of these, mixed up? - in which case, how do all of the elements interact?

IB Theme: Social Organisation

IB Theme: Social Organisation

What possible topics could link to Social Organisation?

IB Theme: Human Ingenuity

The area of 'Human ingenuity' is pretty vast. The most obvious and common interpretation is 'technological cleverness', but arguably you can be ingenious in practically any area - poetry, in politics, even in giving a neat excuse for being horribly late for a date.

Sci-tech ingenuity

As suggested, 'technological cleverness' is the most obvious interpretation of 'human ingenuity', think about examples of ingenuity which have changed the world in some way: clever solutions which have dramatic, far-reaching consequences

What examples of ingenuity have changed the world?

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Communication & media

In a way, all language is an ongoing opportunity for ingenuity - how can you phrase things in such a way as to communicate a message most effectively and efficiently? Furthermore, the media in the 21stC are embodied in fantastically ingenious hardware and software ... to say nothing of the ingenuity involved in the constantly-varying messages presented.

Social media is an example of human ingenuity. Do you think it has changed the world in a positive or negative way?

Ingenious explanation

If we want to study ingenuity in language, we should consider the two prime modes by which complex ideas can be communicated: (i) methodical sequencing of ideas; and (ii) the use of figures of speech to make abstractions more vivid ... which is rhetoric, actually.

Reading

Read the text in the following slide, answer the questions.

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How are these texts examples of human ingenuity, specifically ingenious explanation?

Witty ingenuity

The difference between explanation and wit is that ingenious explanation is defined by the clarity of the message, of what is expressed, whereas ingenious wit is defined by the playfulness of the message, of how it is expressed. Ingenious explanation is useful ... ingenious wit is fun! And the most ingenious is when usefulness and playfulness overlap...