Practice
Each text is a third of a Paper 2 reading, on a suggested time. Check your answers at the end, then see why each one is right.
Standard level
One text each, on the five themes, with every Paper 2 question type
- My accent is who I amIdentities · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- An app that reads medicine boxes aloudHuman ingenuity · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Phones banned at school: your viewsSocial organization · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Volunteering to protect a lagoon in La RéunionSharing the planet · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A summer job at a music festivalExperiences · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Young people and volunteering in ValmontSocial organization · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
Higher level
Longer, harder texts, including literary extracts, with more questions on attitude and words in context
- A teacher refuses to call her students brandsIdentities · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- The night before leaving DakarExperiences · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A workshop for simple technologyHuman ingenuity · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A school that dropped marksSocial organization · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Rescuing fallen seabirdsSharing the planet · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A summer planting treesExperiences · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
Writing
- Paper 1 tasks16 tasks at SL and HL, each with three text types, instant checks and a model answer