Interactive Skills: Individual Oral Assessment

Duration: 12–15 minutes (plus 15 minutes for preparation) 

Weighting: 25% 

The individual oral assessment is based on the course themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization, sharing the planet. 

The aim of this assessment is to measure the student’s ability to understand and produce communication in the target language, and to use it for successful interaction. 

• The individual oral assesses the degree to which the student is able to: communicate clearly and effectively in a range of contexts and for a variety of purposes 

• understand and use language appropriate to a range of interpersonal and/or intercultural contexts and audiences 

• understand and use language to express and respond to a range of ideas with fluency and accuracy 

• identify, organize and present ideas on a range of topics 

• understand, analyse and reflect within the context of presentation and conversation. 

The language B SL individual oral assessment is divided into three parts, preceded by a timed period of supervised preparation.

Supervised Preparation Time

15 minutes

The student is shown two visual stimuli, each relating to a different theme from the course. Each visual stimulus must be labelled in the target language with the theme to which it relates. The student chooses one of the visual stimuli and prepares a presentation directly related to the stimulus. During this time, the student is allowed to make brief working notes.

Part 1: Presentation

3-4 minutes

The student describes the visual stimulus and relates it to the relevant theme and the target culture(s).

Part 2: Follow-up Discussion

4-5 minutes

The teacher engages the student on the theme presented in part 1, expanding on what the student has provided in the presentation.

Part 3: General Discussion

5-6 minutes

The teacher and student have a general discussion on at least one additional theme taken from the five themes around which the course is based.