IB English - Individual Oral - How To Structure the IO

This video presents three different approaches for structuring the IO.

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How to Structure the IO:

Key Sentence Stems for Zoom Out:

Key Sentence Stems for Zoom In:

[Iamgioggi]

Wow, would you guys be able to just do the IO for me? Thanks

[feirralife]

I watched this a night before my orals and it really helped! Thank you!!

[alisha]

Hi guys, just wanted to thank you for your helpful videos on the IO! I did mine two weeks ago and your videos gave some extra information that was really easy to follow and I believe significantly improved it! I feel confident in my performance, thank you again :)

[lucianaalves]

May God bless you two! Helped me so much!

[johnsusie]

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[CPCH-gwzk]

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[tvishapatel]

Thank you, your videos are very helpful 😇

[gamingguy]

@ibenglishguys Hi, super helpful video. I was wondering if my GI needed further refining. "How does the influence of many different cultures and ideologies create an identity struggle?". I am discussing this with reference to Persepolis by Marjane Strapi, and I am also struggling to find a non-literary text to fit this issue. Cheers for everything, I was completely lost a week ago. Keep up the good work.

[Anvvhvni]

Hi IB English guys, you have truly been a great help and can’t thank you enough. I’m not sure if you have the time but I had one question in individual oral. My global question is “How is the marginalization of those who challenge societal expectations shown in both works?”
Extract 1- The crucible
Extract 2- Matika Wilbur Project 562- focuses on challenging the stereotypes and assumptions towards native Americans through her photography. I was wondering if my global question is good or should I change it? Thank you

[peterohan]

Hello Dave and Andrew. Your videos are very helpful to both teachers and students - a big heartfelt "thank you" from my students and myself.
May I request you to elaborate on two points, which for many students (and, indeed, teachers) are a bit of a grey area:
1. When we are discussing a large work, such as a novel or a full-length play, the extract is the zooming in, while the portions of the work where that GI is prominently featured or developed are the zooming out. Therfore, in your opinion, how many of these zooming out points of reference should students attempt, while, at the same time, zooming in on the extract, in order to secure a good mark for criterion A and B? There are just 5 minutes for each segment of the IO, and that's hardly much time to expound in detail. What if a student does zoom in and out, but instead - after the introduction - divides the time equally between speaking of the larger work and then analyzing the exact?
2. This is a bit tricky for some. How is the zooming in and out done effectively if one chooses a collection of short poems or stories by a single author as the literature text? Could you clarify (again, in your opinion), how many smaller texts does a student have to address in 5 minutes of oral time in BOTH literature and non-literature to constitute a BOW? In this regard, could you also explain the distinctions between work, body of work, and extract.
Once again, I do appreciate your guidance
Regards,
Peter

[ibkorean]

Wow your video so helpful to me and students, I am teaching IB Korean A in Shanghai ❤

[googotygame]

What about the compare and contrast structure for the IO?

[diegop.]

Hi, ust subscribed to your channel! Thanks a lot for your videos, they were really useful for knowing how to structure my IO. I have a question though (if possible): what video-editing / animation platform do you guys use, since it seems very handy?!

[davidodonoghue]

Great video but just to offer a friendly suggestion... Specify in the video title that it's specific to English A rather than English B.

[sandygaming]

Hi! I have my IO tomorrow and I don't really feel ready. Like when I try to do a full practice run its hard for me to make transitions and talk clearly about the link with my global issue. Do you have any tips? Also the videos are really helpful, thank you!

[thtfth]

Hi. If the guideline specifies choosing an extract from the text, then why do you need to 'go wide' and focus outside of that chosen extract? Doesn't that kind of defeats the whole point of choosing an abstract? Or, say, for the literary piece, must you include two extracts from different sections of the text?

[stephakaw]

Great video! Thanks a lot. I'm struggling to find the link to the signposting. Could you please tell me where to find those sentence stems?

[knicolle]

Great video! One question i have is how can i zoom out on a non literary text such as a comic. Should i refer to other works from the same author that have a similar issue?

[Romanophonie]

Great video! I have quick question. I know the treatment of each text has to be balanced, but is it necessary for my Zoom in and Zoom out to be balanced as well? I don't see the latter on the rubric. Thanks!

[danielflorentin]

Hi guys! Quick question... in my case, both of my extracts are from short literary and non-literary texts. One is from a short story from Edgar Allan Poe and the other one is an article of Zygmunt Bauman.
The thing is that they are so short that my extract is basically the whole piece, so there wouldn't be anything interesting to talk about if I zoom out... Do you think that my zoom out could be talking about some pattern in other storys/articles of my two authors?