Qualification aims and objectives

English enables students to become critical readers and thinkers, engaging in ongoing analysis and discussions of important worldwide themes like power, rebellion, justice, compassion, and equality.

Regardless of what you want to study after Sixth Form, English provides you with the skills to critically read, respond to, and produce texts. Studying English improves open-mindedness, intercultural understanding and communication, all crucial in our modern world.

The IB emphasises the importance of critical thinking, reflection, and understanding of culture. English Language and Literature develops these mindsets through close reading of texts, being able to relate a text to its form, genre, audience, and context of production, and reading texts from a variety of sources all around the globe.

Course outline and assessment

This course moves through three areas of focus. Each unit consists of two literary works studied in conversation with a variety of non-literary texts, such as articles, speeches, memoir, advertising, and websites.

Component 1: Reader, Writers, and Texts

This study includes the investigation of how texts themselves operate as well as the contexts and complexities of production and reception. The focus is on the development of personal and critical responses to the particulars of communication.

Component 2: Time and Space

The study focuses on the contexts of language use and the variety of ways literary and non-literary texts might both reflect and shape society at large.

Component 3: Intertextuality: connecting texts

The study focuses on intertextual relationships with possibilities to explore various topics, thematic concerns, generic conventions, modes or literary traditions that have been introduced throughout the course.

This course is assessed through a variety of written and oral communications, through oral commentary, essays, and exams.

Future courses & possible careers?

As English creates skilled communicators, critical thinkers, and empathic team workers, the skills and habits developed in this course are relevant across a huge variety of sectors.

English is a perfect complementary subject for any career path.

• Journalism
• Law
• Publishing
• Media
• Teaching
• Advertising
• Public Relations