An Introduction to

IB English
Language and
Literature
Assessment
Assessment Format Date of final assessment

Individual Oral An oral exploration of two texts and May 2024

how they present a specific global issue.
This is followed by questions from the
teacher.

Higher Level essay (HL only) An essay which is written in your own Jan 2025
time (not in exam conditions)

Paper 1 Exam: analysis of unseen non-literary May 2025

text(s)

Paper 2 Exam: comparative essay on two literary May 2025

works you have studied
The Learner Portfolio

You will be expected to keep all your work in a ‘learner portfolio.’

This will be partly online, on a Google Doc or on a Google Website,
and partly in an exercise book.
There will be time at the end of the introductory week to set up
your digital version, but for today we will use your exercise book to
work in.
The 7 key concepts of IB English Language and
Literature
Concept: an abstract idea
● Identity
● Culture
● Creativity
● Communication 1. What do you think they mean? Create a
● Perspective definition for each.
● Transformation 2. How might these concepts be related to
● Representation literature? Can you think of examples from
MYP?
3. To what extent are these concepts
applicable to issues in the world at the
moment?
Here is a non-literary
text.

1. What is the form of

this text?
2. What is its
purpose?
3. Who is the
audience?
 Relating the concepts to a text
● Identity: whose identity is represented
here? How is this identity presented?
● Culture: what culture do you think this
text was produced within? What does
this tell us about the values of this
culture?
● Creativity: to what extent would you
define this as a creative text? Why?
● Communication: who do you think the
author of the text is communicating to?
How do you know?
● Perspective: whose perspective is
portrayed in this text? Does it differ
from your own perspective? Why?
● Transformation: how might this text
transform a reader’s ideas?
● Representation: how is a certain social
group represented here?
Global Issues
For the Individual Oral, you will need to be able to relate texts to specific global issues. To help
with this, you will be keeping a global issues record.

An issue can be defined as a global issue if:

1) it has significance on a wide/large scale

2) it is transnational
3) its impact is felt in everyday local contexts

It may help to think of these broader global issues

Howbefore
manyfinding more can
global issues specific ones.
you relate
● Culture, identity and community to the advertisement?
● Art, creativity and the imagination For example: ‘The text reflects the
● Science, technology and the environment global issue of how materialism has
● Beliefs, values and education worsened gender inequality.’
● Politics, power and justice