Course Outline

Course Outline ib 1 year 12

Course Outline ib 2 year 13

assessments

Language ab initio

The language ab initio course is organized into three themes.

• Individual and society

• Leisure and work

• Urban and rural environment

Each theme has a list of topics that provide the students with opportunities to practise and explore the language as well as to develop intercultural understanding. Through the development of receptive, productive and interactive skills, students should be able to respond and interact appropriately in a defined range of everyday situations. Each language ab initio course has a language-specific syllabus (see “Syllabus content”) that is used in conjunction with the guide. Language ab initio is available at SL only.

Receptive skills

Understand, both aurally and in writing, simple sentences and some more complex sentences related to the three themes and related topics.

Understand simple authentic (adapted where appropriate) written texts and questions related to them in the target language.

Productive skills

Express information fairly accurately, in both writing and in speech, using a range of basic vocabulary and grammatical structures.

Communicate orally and respond appropriately to most questions on the three prescribed themes and related topics.

Communicate clearly, in writing, some simple information and ideas in response to a written task.

Interactive skills

Understand and respond clearly to some information and ideas within the range of the three prescribed themes and related topics.

Engage in simple conversations.

Demonstrate some intercultural understanding by reflecting on similarities and differences between the target culture(s) and the student’s own and by providing some appropriate examples and information.

Group 2 (Languages) aims

1. develop students’ intercultural understanding

2. enable students to understand and use the language they have studied in a range of contexts and for a variety of purposes

3. encourage, through the study of texts and through social interaction, an awareness and appreciation of the different perspectives of people from other cultures

4. develop students’ awareness of the role of language in relation to other areas of knowledge

5. develop students’ awareness of the relationship between the languages and cultures with which they are familiar

6. provide students with a basis for further study, work and leisure through the use of an additional language

7. provide the opportunity for enjoyment, creativity and intellectual stimulation through knowledge of an additional language.