IB French B SL study plan
IB French B SL · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Identities (personal attributes, relationships, beliefs and values, subcultures, language and identity) & Experiences (pastimes, holidays and travel, life stories, rites of passage, customs and traditions, migration)
Build a personal lexicon of 60 words and expressions for describing personality, family roles and friendships, sorted into nouns, verbs and fixed phrases
Write a 200-word self-presentation using at least 12 of those items and three different past tenses
Record yourself speaking for 3 minutes on a personal relationship and mark every hesitation or repetition on the transcript
Draft a reusable structure for the individual oral: description, personal reaction, comparison with your own culture
Your checkpoint
A 200-word written self-portrait plus a 3-minute recording, both annotated with the target vocabulary you actually used
Experiences (pastimes, holidays and travel, life stories, rites of passage, customs and traditions, migration) & Identities (personal attributes, relationships, beliefs and values, subcultures, language and identity)
Narrate three personal life stories in the passé composé and imparfait, choosing the tense correctly in at least 90% of verbs
List and practise 25 connectors of time and consequence (d'abord, tandis que, par conséquent, dès que) and insert them into your narratives
Compare a rite of passage in a French-speaking country with one in your own culture in a 250-word text
Answer five open questions about customs and traditions aloud without reading from notes
Your checkpoint
A 250-word comparative text on rites of passage containing at least 15 time and consequence connectors, checked against a written list
Identities (personal attributes, relationships, beliefs and values, subcultures, language and identity) & Human ingenuity (entertainment, artistic expression, communication and media, technology, scientific innovation)
Summarise two short authentic articles on language, identity or subcultures and extract the main idea of each in one sentence
Explain your own relationship to language and identity in a 4-minute spoken response with an introduction, two arguments and a conclusion
Practise the conditional and the subjunctive in 20 sentences expressing beliefs, values and hypothetical situations
Build a glossary of 40 words covering beliefs, values and youth subcultures
Your checkpoint
Two one-sentence article summaries plus a 4-minute recorded monologue, with a self-assessment noting three grammar errors to fix
Human ingenuity (entertainment, artistic expression, communication and media, technology, scientific innovation) & Experiences (pastimes, holidays and travel, life stories, rites of passage, customs and traditions, migration)
Analyse the format of a written productive task (article, blog, letter) and write one 300-word piece on entertainment or artistic expression
Use a checklist to revise that piece for register, paragraphing and verb agreement, then rewrite it
Describe a cultural event or travel experience in the past with accurate use of the plus-que-parfait in at least five sentences
Learn 30 words for media, technology and the arts and use at least 15 in the written piece
Your checkpoint
A first and revised version of a 300-word article on entertainment, with a marked-up checklist showing what you changed
Human ingenuity (entertainment, artistic expression, communication and media, technology, scientific innovation) & Social organization (social relationships, community, social engagement, education, the workplace, law and order)
Debate two statements about technology, communication or scientific innovation, giving two arguments for and two against each in 90 seconds per side
Practise the structures of formal discussion: taking a position, conceding a point, refuting politely
Read one authentic text on education or the workplace and answer six comprehension questions in writing, including one on inference
List 25 expressions for social relationships, community and the workplace and use them in a short dialogue
Your checkpoint
A written record of two 90-second debates with an argument map for each, plus six answered comprehension questions
Social organization (social relationships, community, social engagement, education, the workplace, law and order) & Sharing the planet (the environment, human rights, peace and conflict, equality, globalization, ethics, urban and rural life)
Write a 300-word opinion text on law, order or social engagement, structuring it with a clear thesis, two developed arguments and a conclusion
Use impersonal expressions (il faut que, il est essentiel de, on devrait) accurately in at least ten sentences
Summarise a short text on equality or human rights and identify the author's viewpoint and tone
Practise five follow-up questions an examiner might ask on social organisation and answer each in 45 seconds
Your checkpoint
A 300-word opinion text with a highlighted thesis and conclusion, plus a short written analysis of an author's viewpoint
Sharing the planet (the environment, human rights, peace and conflict, equality, globalization, ethics, urban and rural life) & Social organization (social relationships, community, social engagement, education, the workplace, law and order)
Prepare and deliver a full mock individual oral: 3 minutes presenting a stimulus, 4 minutes of discussion, recorded and timed
Write a 350-word argumentative text on the environment, globalisation or urban and rural life using at least eight linking devices
Revise your three most frequent errors from earlier weeks and write ten corrected sentences for each
Build a list of 20 concrete examples and statistics from French-speaking contexts to support arguments
Your checkpoint
A complete recorded mock oral with a self-evaluation against the assessment criteria, plus a 350-word argumentative text
Identities (personal attributes, relationships, beliefs and values, subcultures, language and identity) & Experiences (pastimes, holidays and travel, life stories, rites of passage, customs and traditions, migration) & Human ingenuity (entertainment, artistic expression, communication and media, technology, scientific innovation) & Social organization (social relationships, community, social engagement, education, the workplace, law and order) & Sharing the planet (the environment, human rights, peace and conflict, equality, globalization, ethics, urban and rural life)
Complete two full timed mock papers under exam conditions and mark them against the criteria
Consolidate a one-page revision sheet per theme with key vocabulary, structures and example arguments
Re-record your weakest oral task from weeks 1 to 7 and compare it with the original
Review your error log and confirm that no recurring error appears more than twice in the final mocks
Your checkpoint
Two marked mock papers, five one-page theme sheets and a before-and-after comparison of one re-recorded oral task
Milestones
Week 2: You can narrate a personal story in the past for two minutes using the passé composé and imparfait correctly in at least nine out of ten verbs
Week 4: You have produced and revised one 300-word written task and can name the three changes that most improved it
Week 6: You can sustain a 90-second argument on any of the five themes with a clear position, two reasons and one example
Week 8: Your two timed mock papers and recorded oral are complete, self-marked, and your error log shows no recurring error more than twice