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	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.