Topic 5.1: Preparing your oral Questions

Warm up first — choosing a global issue

Quick warm-up — what the Individual Oral is

A quick starter — selecting IO extracts

Answer on selecting extracts. (Exam-style practice.)

Answer on the IO format. (Exam-style practice.)

Answer on choosing a global issue. (Exam-style practice.)

Let's build it up, one step at a time — recognising a correct IO setup

Take it step by step — sharpening and testing a global issue

One step at a time — choosing the richer extract for analysis

IO-STYLE PLANNING TASK. Using the two short original works below, CHOOSE and justify a global issue, then outline a 10-minute IO. Produce: (1) a sharp global issue both works genuinely explore; (2) a one-sentence line of inquiry; (3) three analytical points about authorial choices; (4) how you'd move between the works. (In the real IO, use your own studied works.)

IO-STYLE PLANNING TASK. From EACH original work below, choose the ~40-line stretch you would use as your IO extract, and justify why it is dense enough to analyse. GLOBAL ISSUE (given): how ordinary people become complicit in cruelty. Produce: (1) which part of each work you'd take as your extract and why; (2) three authorial choices you'd analyse; (3) a one-sentence line of inquiry linking both. (In the real IO, use your own studied works.)

IO-STYLE PLANNING TASK. Using the two short original works below, plan a 10-minute Individual Oral. GLOBAL ISSUE (given): the pressure to present a perfect life in public. Produce: (1) a one-sentence line of inquiry; (2) which short extract from EACH work you'd analyse; (3) three analytical points about authorial choices; (4) how you'd move between the two works. (In the real IO you use your own studied literary work + non-literary body of work.)