Vocabulary- Core Topic: Communication & Media- Impact of IT on society
Download the following documents and listen to the audio to learn how to pronounce words. Impact of information technology on society – part 1 Impact of information technology on society -part 2 Impact of information technology on society -part 3
ATL in the Personal Project Process Journal
The Moment of Choice The Personal Project will have an enormous impact in your life as a learner. Initially, it will be a culmination of your MYP experience, and it will give way to the Extended Essay experience in DP. This assignment, the PP, represents an opportunity to conduct research on something personal, something that […]
Book creator: Creative Thinking, Communication
Book Creator is the simplest way to create beautiful books on your iPad. You can include pictures, text, sounds, symbols and a lot of other features. It’s up to your imagination. To learn how to use it, watch the following tutorial. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0J9ptwcGLw] If you are using Macbook, the alternative would be to use […]
English Checker: Communication
SpellCheckPlus and Reverso will hell you make improvements to your pieces of writing. Upon entering the text you want to correct, and after clicking on ‘verify’, you will see how the system identifies and highlights parts of the text that can be improved. Your observation skills will be crucial to improve your paper, so look carefully at the […]
Factual sentence starters for information texts
Strand 1 questions in criteria A and B tasks involve a variety of factual question structures. The following starters can help you answer those questions or, if you are writing information texts, to start your sentences. _____ are . . . _____ is . . . They are . . . They are also . […]
Purpose of a text and text conventions: reporting
These are some sentence starters that you can use to respond to strand 2 questions in Criteria A and B. Likewise, you can use them in other subjects when you speak or write and want to refer to the text you are using. Addressing texts conventions This article was about. . . Considering what the author […]
A Detailed Guide to One-Character Verbs in Mandarin
The following is a comprehensive outline of 90 per cent of the advanced one-character verbs you’ll encounter in written and spoken Mandarin. Resource courtesy of Carl Gene. A Detailed Guide to One-Character Verbs in Mandarin
Personality Adjectives
This post includes a series of vocabulary items that can help you enrich your vocabulary in Chinese, especially descriptions. Download the following file. Resource courtesy of Carl Gene. Personalities in Mandarin and English
Comprehensive Guide to Nouns Ending With 的 de
This post is a compilation of a very special type of nouns in Mandarin – the nouns which ends with 的 [de]. These nouns are special because 的 usually marks the end of one word and the beginning of another, but occasionally – very occasionally – it can also mark an entirely separate word. These should […]
50 High Frequency Words
Download the PDF file and then listen to the track included in this post. In the audio, you will hear the serial number for each item, followed by the word itself, a sentence employing the word, and the word again. 50 HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS Resources courtesy of Carl Gene.