A step-by-step preparation frame for the IB Language A: Literature Individual Oral. Choose a precise global issue, examine it through a ~40-line extract from each of two works (one in translation), analyse the authorial choices that present it, 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: 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 the content and form of two of the works 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 each of two works (one originally in your language, one in translation), analyse the authorial choices that present the issue in both the extract and the wider work, connect and evaluate the two works, 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 authorial choices in form and language present it — not just what happens — keep the two works 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 an extract of about 40 lines from each of two works — one originally written in the language you study and one in translation — chosen because each extract genuinely represents how its work develops the issue. You analyse authorial choices in both the extract and the wider work, and you may bring only a brief outline of up to 10 bullet points to speak from.
The Individual Oral preparation tool is free to start: the planning sections are free, and the later sections are a one-time unlock per tool. You sign in to save your work to your own account and sync it across devices. The frame and its guidance are written by experienced IB educators.
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 two ~40-line extracts in ten minutes, but genuinely reaching beyond a single text or country.
Two works. One must be originally written in the language you are studying and one must be a work in translation. You examine your global issue through an extract of about 40 lines from each, analysing how both the extract and the wider work present the issue, with the two works kept 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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