Cambridge English B for the IB Diploma
Planning sheet 2.1: Topic planner for Chapter 2 ‘Global issues’ (Core)
This planning document provides you with an overview of the contents of Chapter 2 of the Cambridge IB English B coursebook. This chapter offers course
material for the core topic of ‘Global issues’, and is supported by the IB English B website resources.
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In this planning document, page numbers refer to the Cambridge English B for the IB Diploma coursebook. The online resources refer to worksheets (ws)
and assessment resources (as) available on the supporting website which can be found at ibdiploma.cambridge.org
Unit 2.1: Ending poverty
Text number, type, title, page
reference
Online resources
Form and meaning
2.1 Website: ‘The FAIRTRADE
Mark’ (page 47).
2.2 Article: ‘A Business Helps Build
a Community’ (page 49).
2.3 Book review: ‘Why Aid Is Not
Working and How There Is a
Better Way for Africa’ (page 54).
 Assessment sheet 2.1. Answers
to activities in Chapter 2
(filename:
IB_elb_2_assess_as1).
 Worksheet 2.1 ‘Using spider
diagrams’. Students analyse the
structure of Text 2.1 (filename:
IB_elb_2_resources_ws1).
 Worksheet 2.2. A crossword
activity based on vocabulary
from Activity 1.12 (filename:
 Practise using commas
appropriately (pages 50–51).
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Learning outcomes
 Expand topic-specific
vocabulary.
 Explore ways to end poverty in
the world.
 Build reading comprehension
skills.
 Build discussion and writing
skills.
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IB_elb_2_resources_ws2).
 Worksheet 2.3 ‘Annotating an
advertisement’. Students
analyse and mark up the
Benetton ‘Africa Works’ ad, in
Activity 1.19 (filename:
IB_elb_2_resources_ws3).
Links to TOK
Links to Extended Essay
Links to learner profile
 Students discuss the notion of
‘common beliefs’ in relation to key
global issues, using a map drawing
exercise (page 44).
 A good Category 2b essay
might read ‘How and why have
Benetton ads been controversial
for the past twenty years?’
(page 54).
 Caring – Students discuss
how much they care about,
and care for, people who are
less fortunate than
themselves (page 46).
 Students discuss optical illusions in
relation to the Fairtrade logo (page
46).
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Links to CAS
 Students are invited to work on
a CAS project that helps
alleviate poverty (page 46).
 Risk-takers – What risks
are there to microcredit
(page 49)?
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Unit 2.2 – Global warming
Text number, type, title, page
reference
2.4 Opinion piece: ‘Is Global
Warming Real?’ (page 58).
2.5 Guidelines: ‘Greener living: a
quick guide’ (pages 61–63).
2.6 News article: ‘Bhamia,
Bangledesh – Global warming
has a taste in this village. It is the
taste of salt.’ (page 67).
Online resources
 Worksheet 2.4 ‘Is global
warming real?’ Preparing a
presentation. Activity 2.8.
(filename:
IB_elb_2_resources_ws4).
 Worksheet 2.5 ‘Global
warming awareness – using
images’, based on Activity
2.15. (filename:
IB_elb_2_resources_ws5).
 Worksheet 2.6 ‘Marking up
Text 2.6’, looking for
adjectives and nouns.
(filename:
IB_elb_2_resources_ws6).
Form and meaning
 Direct speech vs. reported
speech (pages 63–64).
Links to TOK
Links to Extended Essay
Links to learner profile
 Students explore questions that
relate ‘ways of knowing’ to the
topic of global warming (page 58).
 Suggested title: ‘How does Al
Gore use language to convince
people to care more about the
environment in An Inconvenient
Truth?’(page 66).
 Principled – Discuss
responsibilities we have
towards preserving our
environment (page 61).
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Learning outcomes
 Expand topic-specific
vocabulary.
 Discuss the reality and urgency
of global warming.
 Build reading comprehension
skills.
 Build discussion and writing
skills.
Links to CAS
 Students discuss how they can
reduce their carbon footprint
(page 60).
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Unit 2.3 – Speeches
Text number, type, title, page
reference
2.7 Speech: Diane Feinstein, ‘A time
to act’ (pages 69–70).
Online resources
 Students learn more about
ethos, pathos, logos and various
rhetorical devices (pages 70–
71).
Form and meaning
Learning outcomes
 Students learn about an
argumentation fallacy: the
false dilemma (page 72).
 Students understand the range
of rhetorical features used in
speeches.
 Students practice writing
speeches.
Learning outcomes
Unit 2.4 – Assessment: the interactive oral activity
Text number, type, title, page
reference
Online resources
Form and meaning
 Documentary: it is suggested that
students watch parts of Al Gore’s
documentary film An Inconvenient
Truth.
 Assessment sheet 2.2 ‘Planning
the interactive oral activity’,
which includes five steps to
help students prepare their
interactive oral activities
(filename:
IB_elb_2_assess_as2).
 Assessment sheet 2.3
‘Assessing a sample interactive
oral’. Students assess an audio
recording of a sample
interactive oral activity.
(filename:
IB_elb_2_assess_as3).
 Transcript of a sample
interactive oral activity
(pages 77–78).
 Audio recording of the
sample interactive oral
activity on pages 77–78,
supplied with the online
resources for Chapter 2
(filename:
IB_elb_2_resources_ioa1).
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 Students become familiar with
the requirements for the
interactive oral.
 Students understand methods
for preparing the interactive
oral.
 Students become more familiar
with the assessment criteria for
the interactive oral.
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