Swedish A Resources
Welcome to the Swedish A resource pages! Whether you are preparing for the Individual Oral, planning your HL Essay or revising for Paper 1 and Paper 2, you will find practical support here to help you feel more confident and prepared.
Use the SparkSwedish learning materials to strengthen your analytical skills, structure convincing essays and deliver effective oral presentations.
Analysing a text is about looking beneath the surface. By exploring details, patterns and connections, you can discover how the different parts work together to create meaning.
A strong analysis does more than present ideas. It explains them clearly and supports them with evidence from the text, such as specific details, direct quotations and brief summaries.
Paper 1 can feel unpredictable because you will be analysing texts you have never seen before. But you can still prepare. By practising key skills and learning what to look for, you can approach unseen texts with greater confidence. Here, SparkSwedish will show you how.
Paper 1 can feel unpredictable because you will be analysing poems and extracts you have never seen before. But that does not mean you cannot prepare. By practising the right skills and learning what to look for, you can approach unseen texts with much more confidence. Here, SparkSwedish will show you how.
Does the Individual Oral feel a little daunting? With the right preparation, it becomes much more manageable. Here, SparkSwedish will help you choose a clear focus, connect your texts to a global issue and build a well-structured presentation that you can deliver with confidence.
Click here to learn more about the Individual Oral (in Swedish).
Paper 2 might seem challenging: you need to compare two literary works and write a convincing essay without having the books in front of you. The good news is that there is plenty you can do to prepare. Here, SparkSwedish will help you organise your ideas, build strong comparisons and approach the comparative essay with greater confidence.
You will explore a wide range of genres and text types in both Swedish A courses. In Swedish A: Literature, the focus is on literary genres, while Swedish A: Language and Literature also introduces you to a variety of non-literary text types.
This section will help you recognise the key features of different genres and text types and give you practical guidance on how to approach them with confidence.
Anaphora, hyperbole, metonymy, onomatopoeia and personification are all terms that are useful when analysing literary and non-literary texts. To succeed in your IB Swedish A course, you need to know and be able to use the correct terminology.
Here you will find a comprehensive glossary of stylistic and literary devices and other terms that relate to the Language A courses. You can also take one of our quizzes to test your knowledge and understanding of these terms.