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IB Mandarin B SL and HL

23 lessons at SL. 26 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.

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Units
7
SL lessons
23
HL lessons
26
Questions
177
Key terms
92

What you will study

Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.

Identities4 lessons · free
  1. IdentitiesDescribing people: 的, 得 and 地
  2. IdentitiesLifestyles and health: complements of degree and 越来越
  3. IdentitiesLanguage and belonging: 不但…而且… and variation in Chinese
  4. IdentitiesBeliefs and values: opinions, 虽然…但是… and 即使…也…
Experiences3 lessons
  1. ExperiencesTelling a story: 了, 过 and 着
  2. ExperiencesHolidays and travel: 是…的 and direction complements
  3. ExperiencesCustoms and festivals: 除了…以外 and 连…都 / 也
Human ingenuity3 lessons
  1. Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparisons
  2. Human ingenuityArts and entertainment: result and potential complements
  3. Human ingenuityScience and the future: conditions with 只要 and 只有
Social organization3 lessons
  1. Social organizationEducation and work: modal verbs and 为了
  2. Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: the 把 sentence
  3. Social organizationRules and relationships: 被 and causatives with 让
Sharing the planet2 SL · 3 HL lessons
  1. Sharing the planetThe environment: connectors and building an argument
  2. Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalisation: 无论…都… and 随着
  3. Sharing the planetHL: reporting the news: the written registerHL
Text types, audience and register4 lessons
  1. Text typesAudience, purpose and register
  2. Text typesLetters and emails: the 书信 format
  3. Text typesDiaries, blogs, news reports and reviews
  4. Text typesSpeeches, interviews and brochures
Assessment: papers and the individual oral4 SL · 6 HL lessons
  1. Paper 1Paper 1: productive writing
  2. Paper 2Paper 2: listening
  3. Paper 2Paper 2: reading
  4. Individual oralThe individual oral: structure and the SL visual stimulus
  5. LiteratureHL: reading literature: 白话, chengyu and imageryHL
  6. Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL

Try a question

From “Describing people: 的, 得 and 地”.

Questions are in Mandarin, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.

哪个句子用对了“得”？

  1. A他汉字很漂亮写得。
  2. B他汉字写得很漂亮。
  3. C他写汉字得很漂亮。
  4. D他写得汉字很漂亮。
Show the answer

B. 他汉字写得很漂亮。

The object can come first, then verb + 得 + comment: 他汉字写得很漂亮 "He writes characters beautifully". 得 must follow the verb directly, with nothing in between.

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