For IB Language B teachers
Practice that looks like the real exam
Lingua builds every skill the IB Language B assessments test — text handling in reading and listening, Paper 1-style writing, and the full individual oral — and grades it against IB-style criteria, so your students rehearse the format all year instead of meeting it in May.
SL and HL, calibrated
Put “IB” in a course name, like “IB Spanish SL”, and Lingua sets its level for you — Intermediate High on the ACTFL scale, or Advanced Low for a Year 4+ (HL-age) course — switches reading and listening to IB-style questions, and keeps every passage, script and prompt at that level. You can change any of it.
Paper 2 style
Reading comprehension
Authentic-style texts, with questions written the way IB text-handling questions are.
- Passages in the text types students actually meet: articles, blogs, interviews, formal and informal letters and emails, speeches, diaries, flyers, essays and poems
- IB question style: short answers taken straight from the text, find-the-word, “who does ‘ella’ refer to?”, true/false justified with a quote, and matching paragraphs to headings
- Evidence highlighted after grading, so students see exactly which words prove each answer
Paper 2 style
Listening comprehension
Natural audio in the formats of the listening paper, with two distinct voices when there are two speakers.
- Conversations, interviews, news reports, podcasts, advertisements, speeches and debates
- The same IB question style as reading, built from what is actually said in the audio
- Set how many times students may listen, just like exam conditions
Paper 1 style
Writing
Prompts for the text type you choose, graded against IB-style criteria — or your own rubric.
- Set the text type (blog post, article, formal letter, email, speech, journal entry…), a word range and an optional hard word limit
- Graded on the built-in Condensed IB Writing rubric: Criterion A Language, Criterion B Message, Criterion C Conceptual understanding
- Inline corrections on the student's own text and feedback per criterion; typed or handwritten submissions
Combined oral format
The individual oral, start to finish
Visual stimulus
Students get your prompt and an image to discuss — upload one or have Lingua generate it.
Timed preparation
A preparation window with space for notes before recording starts.
Part 1 — Presentation
The student presents on the stimulus, timed separately from the conversation.
Part 2 — Conversation
A live spoken conversation with an AI examiner: your questions, with natural follow-ups, in real time.
Both parts come back as one recording, one transcript and one score on the Condensed IB Oral rubric, with feedback for each criterion pointing to the exact moments in the transcript. Presentation-only and conversation-only orals are there too, for practicing one half at a time.
IB-style rubrics, built in
Pick a built-in IB-style rubric and every submission is graded against it automatically. Edit any criterion, or build your own and add grading instructions — Lingua grades to your standard, not a generic one.
Condensed IB Writing
A Language · B Message · C Conceptual understanding
Condensed IB Oral (Presentation)
A Language · B Message · C Interactive skills
Condensed IB Oral (Conversation)
A Language · B Message · C Interactive skills
Condensed IB Oral (Combined)
A Language · B1 Message (presentation) · B2 Message (conversation) · C Interactive skills
Try it with your IB class
Create an account, name your course “IB”, and your first IB-style assignment is a few clicks away.
International Baccalaureate® and IB® are registered trademarks of the International Baccalaureate Organization. Lingua is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the International Baccalaureate Organization. Lingua's IB-style question formats and Condensed IB rubrics are adaptations for classroom practice, not official IB assessment materials or criteria.