A step-by-step preparation frame for the IB Language A: Language and Literature Individual Oral. Choose a precise global issue, examine it through one literary work and one non-literary body of work (advertising, speeches, journalism, a cartoon series, a social-media campaign), analyse literary and non-literary features with equal rigour, and build the 10-point outline you speak from — with the four assessment criteria and the 10+5 minute format built in.
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The Individual Oral is your internal assessment in IB Language A: Language and Literature, worth 20% of the course at HL and 30% at SL. It is a 10-minute prepared oral followed by 5 minutes of teacher questions, responding to one prompt: examine the ways in which a global issue of your choice is presented through one literary work and one non-literary body of work that you have studied. This examiner-written preparation frame walks you through it step by step — choose a precise global issue from one of the five fields of inquiry, select a ~40-line extract from a literary work and a comparable unit from a non-literary body of work (advertising, speeches, journalism, a political cartoon series, a social-media campaign, photojournalism), analyse the literary text's form and language AND the non-literary text's rhetorical, visual and structural features with equal rigour, connect and evaluate the two texts, and build the 10-point outline you are allowed to speak from. Each step is paired with the assessment criteria, worked good-and-bad examples and the traps that cost marks, and your prep notes and outline export to DOCX or PDF. The planning sections are free to use; the later sections are a one-time unlock. Sign in to save your work and sync it across devices.
The oral is marked out of 40 across four criteria, each out of 10: A Knowledge, understanding and interpretation; B Analysis and evaluation; C Focus and organization; D Language. Top-band orals examine a precise, transnational global issue, analyse how textual choices present it — narrative technique in the literary text, and image, layout, slogan and mode of address in the non-literary text — keep the two texts in balance, and connect them into a single persuasive interpretation.
The oral is built on a single global issue: a real-world issue of wide, transnational significance, drawn from culture, identity and community; beliefs, values and education; politics, power and justice; art, creativity and the imagination; or science, technology and the environment. You examine it through one literary work and one non-literary body of work — advertisements, speeches, news or opinion journalism, a political cartoon series, a social-media campaign or photojournalism — analysing each with equal rigour: form and language in the literary text, and rhetorical, visual and structural features in the non-literary text. You may bring only a brief outline of up to 10 bullet points to speak from.
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A global issue is a real-world issue of wide, transnational significance, drawn from one of five fields of inquiry: culture, identity and community; beliefs, values and education; politics, power and justice; art, creativity and the imagination; or science, technology and the environment. It should be specific — narrow enough to analyse closely through one literary and one non-literary text in ten minutes, but genuinely reaching beyond a single text or country.
One literary work and one non-literary body of work. The non-literary text can be advertisements, speeches, news or opinion journalism, a political cartoon series, a social-media campaign or photojournalism. You examine your global issue through both, analysing the literary text's form and language and the non-literary text's rhetorical, visual and structural features with equal rigour, keeping the two in balance.
It is a 10-minute prepared oral followed by about 5 minutes of questions from your teacher — 15 minutes in total. You may bring only a brief outline of up to 10 bullet points to speak from; you may not read from a script.
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