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IB French
Expert 1-on-1 IB French tutoring from qualified UK-based tutors for French B HL, SL, and Ab Initio. Build fluency across the five prescribed themes and reach Grade 6 or 7.
- Matched to IB French B HL and IB French B SL and IB French Ab Initio
- One-to-one lessons focused on clear understanding and exam practice
- Progress updates shaped around the student's priorities
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Our Standard
Tutors Chosen for Subject Fit, Teaching Fit and Course Fit
Knowledge beyond the textbook
Strong subject understanding supports demanding school and exam content.
Teaching linked to assessment
Specification points, mark schemes and exam-style questions shape preparation.
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Selection includes interviews, demonstrations and suitability checks.
Matched to the exact course
AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge students get relevant support.
Lesson Flow
From Confusion To Calm, One Lesson At A Time.
Our tutors build both the accuracy and the spontaneity that IB French rewards — a wide active vocabulary, secure grammar, and the confidence to respond to unseen stimuli in the oral and written papers.
Step 1
Pinpoint the gaps
We start with recent marks, confidence blockers, and the exact exam board so sessions feel personal from lesson one.
Step 2
Teach the mark scheme
Tutors connect concepts to examiner language, worked examples, and the habits that turn knowledge into marks.
Step 3
Track the lift
Parents see what changed after each session: topics covered, next steps, and the grade trajectory we are building toward.
What we cover
A Syllabus Map Students Can Actually Follow.
Break the specification into manageable topics, then build confidence from the first concept to exam-ready application.
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Identities
Start hereLifestyles, health, beliefs, values, and language and identity. Students learn to discuss personal and cultural identity with precise vocabulary and appropriate register, a recurring source of oral and Paper 1 tasks.
02
Experiences
Leisure, travel, customs and traditions, migration, and rites of passage. We build the descriptive and narrative vocabulary needed to recount experiences fluently in the past tenses.
03
Human Ingenuity
Technology, entertainment, communication, and scientific innovation. Students practise expressing opinions and weighing advantages and disadvantages — essential for the argumentative Paper 1 text types.
04
Social Organisation
Community, education, the workplace, law and order, and social relationships. A theme rich in formal register and the conditional and subjunctive moods that lift a script to Grade 7.
05
Sharing the Planet
The environment, human rights, globalisation, ethics, and peace and conflict. We develop the abstract and evaluative language that HL students in particular need for sustained argument.
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Text Types & Paper 1 Writing
Blogs, emails, articles, speeches, diary entries, brochures, and reports. Each has distinct conventions of register, layout, and audience. We teach the features examiners look for so students choose and structure the right text type under time pressure.
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Individual Oral & Paper 2
The Individual Oral is based on a visual stimulus (a photo for SL/HL, linked to a theme). We rehearse the description, the follow-up conversation, and — at HL — discussion of the literary works, alongside Paper 2 listening and reading strategies.
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Grammar & Accuracy
Tense system, agreement, pronouns, the subjunctive, and connectors. Consistent grammatical control is what separates a Grade 5 from a Grade 7. We target each student's recurring errors systematically.
See this plan built around your child's exact paper.
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Common Blockers
Where Students Struggle And How We Fix It.
1Speaking spontaneously in the Individual Oral+
Many students freeze when asked to describe an unseen visual stimulus and sustain a conversation. We run repeated mock orals with real IB-style images, teaching a reliable framework for describing, interpreting, and linking the image to its theme, plus stock connectors that buy thinking time and raise fluency marks.
2Choosing and structuring the right text type in Paper 1+
Paper 1 rewards command of register and text-type conventions — a formal report reads very differently from a blog. We drill the layout, tone, and audience of each text type and practise timed responses, so students recognise the task quickly and hit the conventions the mark scheme demands.
3Grammatical accuracy under time pressure+
Fluent ideas lose marks when tenses, agreements, and the subjunctive slip. We diagnose each student's recurring errors and build focused correction routines, so accuracy becomes automatic rather than something to check for at the end.
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Why Parents Chose Combo.
A clear tutor match, a plan built around the real paper, and progress parents can follow from week to week.
✓Support that stays focused on progress
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Handpicked tutors
We shortlist tutors who know the curriculum, teach clearly, and can coach the exact exam habits that lift marks.
Top-university academics and exam-savvy specialists.
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Clear weekly updates
Parents see what was covered, what improved, and what needs attention next, so progress never feels vague.
Structured feedback after every lesson block.
03
A plan built around your child's paper
Sessions are matched to the student's board, tier, topic gaps, and exam timeline instead of generic subject tutoring.
Board-specific support with a measurable target grade path.
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Focused, one-to-one support that helps students understand difficult topics and prepare with confidence.
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Quick questions
FAQs About IB French
Helpful answers about exam boards, syllabus topics, tutor matching and lesson support.
What is the difference between French B and French Ab Initio?
French B is for students with several years of prior French and is offered at both SL and HL. Ab Initio is a beginners' course at SL only, for students with little or no French, covering three themes rather than five. We match you to a tutor experienced in the exact course your school offers.
How do you prepare students for the Individual Oral?
We run repeated mock orals using IB-style visual stimuli tied to the prescribed themes. Students practise the timed description, the follow-up conversation, and — at HL — discussion of the literary works. We teach a reliable framework plus connectors that improve fluency, so the real exam feels familiar.
Do HL students need to study literature?
Yes. IB French B HL requires two literary works, which feed into Paper 2 and the Individual Oral discussion. SL and Ab Initio do not include set literary works. Our HL tutors work through the texts with your school's chosen works and the language and analysis they demand.
Is IB French HL harder than A-Level French?
They are broadly comparable. IB French B HL covers five themes with two literary works and a strong oral and listening component, while A-Level French goes deeper into culture, film, and literature. Both reward accuracy, range of vocabulary, and confident spontaneous speaking, all of which our tutors build systematically.
When should my child start IB French tutoring?
Starting in Year 1 (Grade 11) is ideal for building secure grammar and vocabulary across the themes before the workload intensifies. That said, students who begin in the final semester still make strong gains — the oral and Paper 1 in particular respond quickly to focused, well-targeted practice.
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