Delivering & practising

Notes — a script sounds flat and derails if you lose your place.

So the examiner can follow your structure — it shows control.

‘This suggests’, ‘the effect is’, ‘the writer's choice here…’.

A steady pace — don't rush; use short pauses for weight.

Brief bullet points and key quotations, not full sentences.

D (language) and C (organisation).

It hides your analysis — deliver with pace and signposting.

Thinking through an argument, not performing a monologue.

Gives it weight and control.

Notes, steady pace, signposting, analytical phrasing — think aloud.

To let you extend, defend or complicate your analysis — go deeper.

No — under the same criteria (A–D) as the prepared oral.

Ignoring the question and repeating your prepared oral.

Listen — answer the ACTUAL question, not the one you'd prefer.

Directly, then develop it with evidence from the works.

The texts — support with evidence, not vague opinion.

About five minutes.

Attempt a thoughtful, text-based answer — don't evade.

Lift them — thoughtful answers develop your analysis.

Listen, answer directly, develop with evidence — go deeper.

Issue + line of inquiry → close woven analysis of two extracts → widen → conclude.

Names the global issue and states the line of inquiry.

Closely, and woven — crossing between the works.

Showing how each WHOLE work treats the issue beyond the extract.

A sharp line of inquiry, woven analysis, and a conclusion that reveals something.

Moves — your works are your own.

A story sold to the young — the poster writes it, the poem exposes its silence.

The story is authored by those who won't have to die inside it.

All four IO criteria: A, B, C, D.

Grade 7 weaves both works around one line of inquiry.

It builds no spoken fluency, timing or control.

Out loud, from notes, with a timer, several times.

Yes — have someone ask likely follow-up questions.

To land near ten minutes with a conclusion.

It gets tighter, smoother, and more fluent.

Notes — a word-for-word script is flat and fragile.

All four — structure (C), language (D), and confident analysis (A, B).

It's the one assessment you can fully practise in advance.

Reading notes silently instead of rehearsing aloud.

Aloud, from notes, to time, repeated — plus discussion practice.