Individual Oral Exam 2023

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

The nature of the task 

The Individual Oral is an assessment task you have to complete at both HL and SL in addition to the final examination papers and (for HL students only) the coursework essay. At a time designated by your teacher, you will deliver a 15 minute oral presentation; for up to 10 of those minutes you will present alone and in the last five minutes your teacher will ask you some questions.

Dates 2025

DP2 Lang Lit & Lit individual orals 7th - 14th February 

The nature of the task 

In the oral you will be expected to talk about two works that you have studied. One of them must be in translation.

In the oral you are expected to focus on a GLOBAL ISSUE. This is a topic that connects your texts with both local and global 'real world' contexts.

The oral is conducted and marked by your teacher. Their marks are then moderated externally by the IB.

IB English Literature 

Readers, Writers, Texts	Time and Space	Intertextuality
Selected poetry by Wislawa Szymborska	A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen	The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	Macbeth William Shakespeare	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
Selected poetry Carol Ann Duffy	If This is a Man Primo Levi	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Global Issue 

Put simply, a 'global issue' is an idea or theme presented in your text/s that has significance in the world. The IB states that it should have the following properties:

It has significance on a wide/large scale

It is transnational

Its impact is felt in everyday local contexts

An example of a global issue might be:

Money as a source of social repression in Metamorphosis and Death of a Salesman

This issue focuses on a specific topic, is not too broad and would allow for interesting development in the oral.

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Dates 2025

DP2 Lang Lit & Lit individual orals 7th - 14th February 

IB English Language and Literature higher 

Readers, Writers, Texts	Time and Space	Intertextuality
Selected poetry by Wislawa Szymborska	A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen	The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga	Othello William Shakespeare	1984 George Orwell

IB English Language and Literature higher 

Advertising Army recruitment "This is Belonging" Kamarama Advertising agency	Political cartoon Liza Donnelly Kal	Opinion columns Maureen Dowd
Photography photojournalism Philip Jones Griffith	Infographics India statistics Factly.in

Various bodies of work which are non-literary texts from the same author, but from different text types. 

Goals for today 

Completing Act 3 Macbeth 

Introduction to the steps to the IO and how/when we will complete them.

No use of AI in the Individual Oral construction or thought process 

Proof of process 

Paper 1 practise in the remaining lessons this week 

Rate the word 1 to 4

1. I do not know the word, and I have never seen it before. 

2. I've heard or seen the word before, but I'm not sure what it means. 

3. I know the word and can recognise and understand it while reading, but I probably wouldn't feel comfortable using it in writing or speech. 

4. I know the word well and can use it correctly in writing or speech. 

Pugnacious 

Word of the day

Pugnacious  (adj) – wanting to start an argument or fight, or expressing an argument or opinion very forcefully

Which character(s) that we have met in our literary explorations would you describe as pugnacious? 

Aaron's pugnacious nature led him to start several pub brawls each month

Steps to Individual Oral 

1. Decide on your texts 
   
2. Choose your global issue and guiding question
   
3. Decide on your extracts and annotate hard copies
   
4. Find connections in your GI to the whole text or whole BOW
5. Organise your thinking through a graphic organiser
6. Write your bullet point list

1. Practise the IO. Time and record it. Note areas of improvement
   
2. Revise and rewrite script and bullet point list using your takeaways from above 
   
3. Rehearse and answer questions with an interlocutor
   
4. Practise
5. Perform your IO 

Language and Literature HL

We have in total 12 lessons after the Mock exams and before the IOs start on 7th Feb

Some lessons you will be working on your IO individually or as a group. 

Literature  HL

We have in total 10 lessons after the Mock exams and before the IOs start on 7th Feb

Some lessons you will be working on your IO individually or as a group.