Individual Oral - More Student Samples

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  3. Individual Oral - Student Samples
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Here you will find more individual oral ideas and student samples. Take part in a grading quiz, and put yourself in the shoes of the examiner: what kind of feedback would you give the student? What kind of feedback about choice of texts would you give the centre?

What makes a great oral?

In Individual Oral - Organising the 10 minutes we have looked at the best ways in which to organise the oral in order to meet the demands of the assessment and tick all of the boxes explained in the M21 Subject Report (see Blog pages of this site). Meanwhile, the thorny issue of a body of work is explored in Individual Oral - Bodies of Work.

Here you will be provided with some samples extracts and a student oral. Undertake the following tasks:

  • Look at the extracts and prepare a set of notes for the centre as if you were the examiner. What would you say is good about the choice of texts, and what should the teacher think about in terms of guiding the student next time? (You will need to look carefully at the Subject Guide and the assessment requirements in order to do this - ask your teacher if you don't have access to these documents.)
  • Prepare your ten-bullet-point plan to take into the oral if you were the student doing an individual oral on these texts.
  • Listen to the oral and consider the student's performance.
  • Make notes based on her performance - what do you think her ten-bullet-point plan was? Did she follow the structural ideas presented in this site or organise the oral differently?
  • Take part in the assessment quiz below, and mark her oral. Compare your marks to those of the examiner.
 

Student Performance

Text A:

Take One Home For The Kiddies 

On shallow straw, in shadeless glass,
Huddled by empty bowls, they sleep:
No dark, no dam, no earth, no grass -
Mam, get us one of them to keep.

Living toys are something novel,
But it soon wears off somehow.
Fetch the shoebox, fetch the shovel -
Mam, we're playing funerals now.

Philip Larkin

Text B:

 

You're the examiner

Take a look at these two extracts / texts, and consider whether they have been well-chosen. What feedback would you give to the school / IB centre about choice of texts for the future:

Assessment

Listen to the oral and then take the marking quiz below:


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