The Individual Oral

Purpose

The individual oral (IO) is a platform that allows you to demonstrate some of the key skills developed in your English classroom, including: 

This is achieved by answering 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 texts that you have studied.

Assessment in a Nutshell

The IO is a prepared 15-minute oral response wherein you discuss how one literary work and one non-literary body of work approach a common global issue. You must discuss texts that have been studied in class. For SL students, this exam is worth 30% of your grade, and for HL students, it's worth 20%.

Rubric

IB Web L&L IO - Rubric
*IB Web IO Survival Guide

Strategies & Resources 

Useful Language IO

in order to help your listener follow along with your ideas, it's important that you use language to signpost your IO. This will help with criteria C and D of the rubric.

IB Web Bodies of Work

Read the slides to understand more about the scope of the collections of work that are discussed in the IO.

Examples

Example Individual Oral