Topic 5.2: Building your oral Questions

Ease in — connecting the two IO works

Quick check to start — building a line of inquiry

Quick warm-up — structuring the IO

Answer on connecting the works. (Exam-style practice.)

Piece it together, step by step — planning a connected (woven) IO

Answer on IO structure. (Exam-style practice.)

Answer on the line of inquiry. (Exam-style practice.)

Work through it in small steps — turning a topic into a developable line of inquiry

Let's build it up, one step at a time — mapping the ten minutes

IO-STYLE PLANNING TASK. Using the two short original works below, produce a timed five-part STRUCTURE for a 10-minute IO. GLOBAL ISSUE (given): how productivity culture redefines human worth. Produce: (1) an opening (issue + one-sentence line of inquiry); (2) one close-analysis point for EACH extract; (3) a ‘widen to the whole works’ point; (4) a one-sentence conclusion — with rough timings. (In the real IO, use your own studied works.)

IO-STYLE PLANNING TASK. Using the two short original works below, build a LINE OF INQUIRY and outline a 10-minute IO. GLOBAL ISSUE (given): how grief is turned into a public performance. Produce: (1) a one-sentence line of inquiry (an argument, not a topic) covering both works; (2) three analytical points about authorial choices; (3) how you'd move between the works. (In the real IO, use your own studied works.)

IO-STYLE PLANNING TASK. Using the two short original works below, plan a CONNECTED (woven) 10-minute IO. GLOBAL ISSUE (given): how nations decide who counts as one of ‘us’. Produce: (1) a one-sentence line of inquiry; (2) three points about the issue, EACH crossing both works; (3) two connecting sentences that move between the works. (In the real IO, use your own studied works.)