Individual Oral

Internal assessment details—SL/HL

Duration: 15 minutes (10 minutes: student individual oral; 5 minutes: teacher questions)

Weighting: 30% for SL, 20% for HL

The nature of the task

The individual oral addresses the following prompt:

Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of one of the works and one of the bodies of work that you have studied.

Explanation of the task

The individual oral is based on the exploration the student has carried out in the learner portfolio. During this exploration process, the student will have investigated a series of non-literary bodies of work and literary works and a variety of global issues. In the lead up to the individual oral, the student must make a decision about which global issue and which body of work and work will be explored in the task. One work and one non-literary body of work must be selected. An extract of no more than 40 lines should be selected from each which is representative of the presence of the global issue in it. In forms or text types where the number of lines may not be applicable, teachers should be guided by the volume of text that can be discussed in sufficient depth in the time available.