The individual oral

1. The student’s response must address the following prompt:

Examine the ways in which a global issue of your choice is
presented through the content and form of two of the works that
you have studied.

2. The student must discuss two works studied during the course:
one in translation, one originally written in the language of study.

3. The student must discuss the ways in which the chosen works
represent and explore a chosen global issue.

4. For each work, the student must select an extract of no more

than 40 lines which focuses on / is representative of the global
issue
→ intended to help students focus their response on textual
details.

5. The response is expected to relate each extract to broader

elements of the work as whole and show how the extract is
representative of the concerns of the whole text.

6. Students must select their own texts and topics, with teacher
guidance.
• Students create an outline for the oral on a form provided by
the IBO
• Form allows a maximum of 10 bullet points to provide
structure
• Students take the form into the oral
• Teacher then keeps the form on file

• Students also take clean copies of their two extracts into the
oral → must be given to teacher at least a week in advance

• The oral = 10 minutes / 5 minutes = teacher questions.

• The oral is internally assessed and externally moderated. The

oral is audio recorded, and samples submitted for moderation.

• The focus of the oral should be on the literary representation

of a global issue: the ways in which writers explore, illuminate
and communicate ideas about such issues through a range of
literary techniques such as narrative, characterization, setting,
dialogue, symbolism, and imagery.

• Whilst the oral should show the students’ awareness and

understanding of the global issue, it should not be a talk
about that issue, but about the way that issue is represented in
the works chosen.
 Choosing a global issue
A global issue must have significance on a wide/large scale,
be transnational, and have impact in everyday local
contexts.

The five fields of inquiry help students to think about global

issues and choose one issue to focus on in their oral.

CULTURE, IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY

BELIEFS, VALUES AND EDUCATION

POLITICS, POWER AND JUSTICE

ART, CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE NATURAL WORLD

There are four assessment criteria.

Criterion A Knowledge, understanding and interpretation 10 marks
Criterion B Analysis and evaluation 10 marks
Criterion C Focus and organization 10 marks
Criterion D Language 10 marks
Total 40 marks