IBDP English A: Language and Literature

In this course, students study a wide range of literary and non-literary texts in a variety of media. By examining communicative acts across literary form and textual type alongside appropriate secondary readings, students will investigate the nature of language itself and the ways in which it shapes and is influenced by identity and culture. Approaches to study in the course are meant to be wide ranging and can include literary theory, sociolinguistics, media studies and critical discourse analysis among others. 

Source:  IB English Language and Literature Guide 2019

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Paper 1: Guided Textual Analysis (HL/SL)​

The module provides knowledge, understanding and skills required to analyse the visuals, graphics, and images that feature in the Paper 1 text types – cartoons, comic strips, webcomics, infographics, graphic novels, film screen grabs, advertisements and caricatures etc. It is also important to understand how to analyse these images, graphics and visuals that feature in websites, tour guides, articles, interviews, editorials, opinions, and blogs. Layout and design of certain text types (website, op-eds ) also require visual analysis. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALM1
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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The module enhances the knowledge, understanding and skills required to analyse the lexis – the text – simply the words. While the most text types feature visuals, graphics and images, they also feature rich text in the form of language or words in cartoons, comic strips, webcomics, infographics, graphic novels, film screen grabs, advertisements and caricatures etc. It is also important to understand how to analyse the lexical heavy text types ; particularly websites, tour guides, articles, editorials, opinions, interviews, reviews, and blogs etc. 

Duration of the module: 6 Hours (three sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 240/-
Module CODE: ENGLALM2
Mode of Teaching: Online
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The module enhances the knowledge, understanding and skills required to identify the literary, syntactical features and analyse them in the context presented. Literary and syntactical features target to deliver certain intended effects on the readers or audience. You need to develop this skill to explain how the meaning shapes and enhances its effect though its list is big – symbolic elements, anthropomorphic creations, allegorical references, alliterative phrases, rhetorical effect, bandwagon effect and satirical effect etc. We discuss the most popular 100 terms that help in paper 1. You need a special focus on criterion B to get the crucial 5 marks. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M1
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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The module enhances the knowledge, understanding and skills required to identify the relationship present between the lexis and the visuals in the text. You will learn to analyse the interaction between the language and image and explain what is complemented and what effect is created. Without explaining this interaction between image and language, the analysis is incomplete. We use a comic strip, webcomic, graphic novel, blog, article, infographic, editorial, and multi model texts to explain you this effect. 

Duration of the module: 2 Hours (one session)
Fee: SGD 80/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M4
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Complete the form for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

The module provides knowledge and understanding of the formal conventions and features of each text type. The conventions of graphic novels are completely different from an opinion column or an article. This module enhances the skill to identify and explain the formal conventions of 20 popular text types that feature in paper 1 : cartoons (political, satirical and social) comic strips,  webcomics, infographics, film screen grabs, graphic novels, comics, advertisements, photojournalism, bogs, editorials, articles (newspaper/magazine), speeches, brochure or leaflet, appeals, diary, journal, essay, electronic texts (reviews of an app), interview, letter, textbook (a chapter), radio broadcast, memoir, travel writing (travelogues or tour guide), screenplay, report (newspaper or formal), pastiche, encyclopedia entry, manifesto, parody, instruction booklet etc. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M5
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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The module enhances the knowledge and understanding of analytical TOOLS that students could use as a checklist in guided textual analysis Paper 1. It delivers a systematic approach of applying 18 TOOLS that give analysis a methodical approach and effectiveness in presenting the ideas. If you can apply these 18 tools, you will be able to cover the most analytical aspects expected to be analysed in paper 1.  This module aims to provide you with the skill of organising your essay structured and more cogent in writing – effective introduction, extended introduction and body paragraphs and a powerful conclusion. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M6
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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The module provides knowledge, understanding and skills to approach paper 1. The module covers the exam skills such as choosing the text type between two choices (SL), significance of texts presented (HL), importance of colour coding the texts, annotating, planning, generating ideas, creating thesis, and topic sentences for the paper 1 essay. This module focuses on a past paper to learn this process and it also covers module 6 that deals with 18 analytical TOOLS. 

Duration of the module:  10 Hours (5 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M7
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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The module is designed for those who have already gained the analytical skills (as described in module 6) required for paper 1. If you do not know these tools, you must do module 6 or 7. Working on a past paper, our expert tutor not only discusses the essay structure for paper 1 but also takes you through the process writing a good essay – effective introduction, extended introduction and body paragraphs and a powerful conclusion. 

Duration of the module: 4 Hours (2 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 160/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M8
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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The module is designed for those who have already gained the analytical skills for paper 1. If you think practising two past papers (one lexical heavy text and one visual heavy text) gives you confidence, clear direction and pace of analysing a text in the final exam, this module is for you. In this module, we discuss two past papers aiming to lead to structure the essay for paper 1 that makes it complete. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M9
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you have attempted writing a response to Paper 1, a good feedback will help you boost your confidence or know how to improve further. Our team of assessors would mark your response and give comments in three areas: strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improvements (150 words). Your response will be digitally annotated with remarks. If you would like to know your score of a written response in timed conditions, send us the scanned copy of the response – handwritten only as it is the method that matches the real exam conditions. We shall send the feedback in 48 hours. 

Fee: SGD 20/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M10
Mode of Delivery: Examiner Comments in PDF through email
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you need a Paper 1 (Guided Textual Analysis – SL/HL), we can set it for you. Our question papers are original which are designed free of past paper contents. When you buy this module, we email you the question paper within 48 hours. You can request any preferences of the text types to be set in the question paper. The question paper set is not for sharing or circulation but single use for your classroom size of maximum 25 students only. 

Fee: SGD 50/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M11
Mode of Delivery: Paper 1 in PDF through email
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

Paper 2: Comparative Essay (HL/SL)

If you are studying any of the titles below  or other titles of your school’s choice, you can choose one title in this module to develop critical understanding of the play for paper 2 purposes. In this module, you will engage in discussions to develop a clear understanding of the context, plot development, narrative construction, thematic concerns, significant episodes and character development that matter for the exam. If you have read the novel, it will be an added advantage to pick up more ideas and details from the discussions. 

  • Shakespeare :  Macbeth, Hamlet, Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Henry V
  • Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons, A View From the Bridge
  • Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie 
  • J.B Priestley: An Inspector Calls 
  • Oscar Wilde: Importance of Being Earnest 
  • Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: Inherit the Wind 
  • Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (text in translation) 
  • Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler (texts in translation) 
  • August Strindberg: Miss Julie (texts in translation) 
  • Euripides: Medea (text in translation) 

Duration of the module: 10 Hours (5 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP2M1
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you are studying any of the titles below  or other titles of your school’s choice, you can choose one title in this module to develop critical understanding of the play for paper 2 purposes. In this module, you will engage in discussions to develop a clear understanding of the context, plot development, narrative construction, thematic concerns, significant episodes and character development that matter for the exam. If you have read the novel, it will be an added advantage to pick up more ideas and details from the discussions. 

  • George Orwell: 1984, The Animal Farm
  • Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Art Spiegelman : The Maus (graphic novel)
  • Helen Dunmore: The Siege 
  • Chinua Achebe: No Longer at East, Things Fall Apart 
  • Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
  • Kate Grenville: The Secret River
  • Aravind Adiga: White Tiger 
  • Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist 
  • Albert Camus: The Stranger (The Outsider)
  • Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicles of Death Foretold
  • Nawal Sadaawi: The Woman at Point Zero
  • Marjani Satrapi: Persepolis (graphic novel)
  • Bernhard schlink: The Reader

Duration of the module: 10 Hours (5 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP2M2
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

While knowledge and understanding carry 10 marks for Criterion A, Criterion B carries equal marks (10) for the skill of evaluating and interpreting the literary devices and text specific devices for graphic novels. However, many students focus little to less on this aspect. Though some students carry good knowledge of the literary features, they do not effectively explain and blend it in the explanation of your thesis. It is important that you get rewarded more for this criterion from the examiners to get 6 or 7. This module focuses on two aspects. First, it is the list of 80+ literary devices that are important in dramas, novels and graphic novels. Second, we train you and enhance the skills of incorporating these features in the essay writing at two levels- explicit and implicit. In this module, we demonstrate how to achieve it in writing and you will learn the way to make your writing more literary in style. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP2M3
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

From the four question choices, it is a tricky process to select a question that works for a good essay. You need to know what kind of questions work and do not work for the titles that you are studying. Besides this part, unpacking a question, knowing the scope of it and expectations of the question are important aspects before attempting to write the essay. In this module, you will learn these complex skills and the following stages in the essay writing process. 

  • Planning the essay
  • constructing a thesis statement 
  • drafting the topic sentences
  • Structuring the comparative aspects of the essay 
  • Developing a clear line of argument 
  • Writing effective introductions
  • Structure of body paragraph 
  • Writing effective conclusions

Duration of the module: 10 Hours ( 5 Sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP2M4
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

The module is designed for the students who have adequate knowledge and understanding of both the texts for comparative essays. If you think discussing two past paper questions gives you confidence, clear direction and improves your critical thinking skills for paper 2, this module is for you. In this module, we discuss two past papers to understand the process and approach to paper 2 in the exam conditions. Working on a past paper, our educator will involve you in the writing process of an essay in the most effective method that gets rewarded highly in the exam. The student will be taken on a guided tour of writing the comparative essay. At each stage of writing, the student learns the techniques of the writing process in the depth. 

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP2M5
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you have attempted writing a response to Paper 2, a good feedback will help you boost your confidence or know how to improve further. Our team of assessors would mark your response and give comments in three areas: strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improvements (150 words). Your response will be digitally annotated with remarks. If you would like to know your score of a written response in timed conditions, send us the scanned copy of the response – handwritten only* (exceptions applicable) as it is the method that matches the real exam conditions. We shall send the feedback in 48 hours. 

Fee: SGD 20/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP2M6
Mode of Delivery: Examiner Comments in PDF through email
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you need a question paper of Paper 2, we can set it for you. Our question papers are original which are designed free of past paper contents. When you buy this module, we email you the question paper within 48 hours. The question paper set is not for sharing or circulation but single use for your classroom size of maximum 25 students only. 

Fee: SGD 50/-
Module CODE: ENGLALP1M11
Mode of Delivery: Paper 1 in PDF through email
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

Individual Oral: IA (HL/SL)

If you are studying any of the poets, singers below or other poets or lyricists of your school’s choice, you can choose one poem or song in this module to develop critical understanding of the poem to prepare for the Individual Oral. In this module, you will engage in discussions and develop a clear understanding of the poem or song- themes, literary features, thematic concerns and speaker’s intended message: global issues and transnational issues 

Carol Ann Duffy, Wilfred Owen, Seamus Heaney, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, PB Shelly, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Jackson (songs), Kendrick Lamar (songs).

Duration of the module: 2 Hours (per poem or song – 1 session)
Fee: SGD 80/-
Module CODE: ENGLALIOM1
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

While knowledge and understanding carry 10 marks for Criterion A, Criterion B carries equal marks (10) for the skill of evaluating and interpreting the literary devices for lyrics and poems. However, many students focus little to less on this aspect. Though some students carry good knowledge of the literary features, they do not effectively explain and blend it in the explanation of your outline. It is important that you get rewarded more for this criterion from the examiners to get 6 or 7. This module focuses on two aspects. First, it is the list of 50+ literary devices that are important in poems and lyrics. Second, we train you and enhance the skills of incorporating these features in the individual oral at two levels- explicit and implicit. In this module, we demonstrate how to achieve it in writing and you will learn the way to make your commentary more literary in style. 

Duration of the module: 6 Hours (3 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 240/-
Module CODE: ENGLALIOM2
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you would like to prepare for individual oral (IO), we can help you. You can bring your set literary text and non-literary text paired for IO assessment. We help you with analysing both literary text, non-literary text and guide you to plan the outline which is the heart of your IO. You will also get to understand the global issues and transnational issues that you can focus on in your IO. Besides, we engage you in identifying literary features and conventions that matter for criterion B in IO. In the end you will have everything from annotated copies of the paired texts, outline, techniques and global issues.

Duration of the module: 6 Hours (3 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 240/-
Module CODE: ENGLALIOM3
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you have attempted an IO as a part of your preparation, a good feedback will help you boost your confidence or know how to improve further. Our team of assessors would listen and provide comments on your IO three areas: strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improvements (150 words). If you would like to know your the score of IO, send us the mp3 track. We shall send the feedback in 48 hours.

Fee: SGD 20/-
Module CODE: ENGLALIOM4
Mode of Delivery: Assessor’s comments in PDF through email Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

HL Essay: Internal Assessment

If you approach us with a selected literary or non-literary text of your choice for the HL Essay, we shall guide you through writing a quality essay. We guide you through – formulating a research question (RQ), planning the essay content, reviewing and feedback in phases. Our educators discuss and understand your preparedness to begin writing the essay and guide from planning to writing to final draft and evaluation. We do not steal the joy of your research as an IB student but guide and supervise the entire process. We consistently review your work and assess if it meets the criteria for a better grade and alert you in phases in the journey. 

Duration of the module: 10 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: ENGLALHLEM1
Mode of Teaching: Online 
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

If you have written an HL Essay, a good feedback will help you to improve it further. Our team of assessors mark it, find gap and areas to improve, then provide you with the feedback in three areas: strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improvements (200 words). If you would like to know the areas to improve, send us the copy, we shall send the feedback in 48 hours. If you would like to receive feedback orally, we shall schedule an interactive session online. Remember your essay is safe with us. Do not worry of losing the work. We understand your hard word and IB policy of academic honesty. 

Fee:  80/- SGD
Module CODE: ENGLALHLEM2
Mode of Delivery: Assessor’s Comments in PDF through email
How to enrol: Complete the form for slots and payment details CLICK HERE