IB skill practice

Plan opening statements for the Individual Oral

English A Language and Literature SL completion skill with accessible exam-style Paper 1, literary, Paper 2, IO, and revision practice.

Paper 1, Paper 2, IO 5 marks Difficulty 4

English A exam practice: Plan opening statements for the Individual Oral

An Individual Oral opening needs to set up the global issue and route of analysis. Choose the focus that best opens the oral. Use the visual organiser to keep the claim, proof, method, and effect connected. Choose the analytical focus, evidence choice, and technique choice, then select the interpretation that best explains meaning, reader position, audience response, or comparison.

Worked practice: build the analysis

Construct the analysis one move at a time, the way an examiner reads it: focus, evidence, technique, then effect.