IB English - Individual Oral - How To Structure the IO

[@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!!

[@gerrard4897]

prolly shouldnt be doing that

[@jerrydrumline]

I'm doing that haha@@gerrard4897

[@peterthechildyeeter9951]

@@gerrard4897 Well I'd disagree, It's good to refresh your memory but cramming it all up at the last night definitely is a last resort approach.

[@alisha1776]

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 :)

[@ibenglishguys]

Thanks so much for this wonderful feedback, Alisha! We are very happy we were able to help you out. Best of luck on exams.

[@auroravalentine603]

howd you do?

[@johnsusie9259]

Kust did my IA, u guys helped me so much, ur students r blessed to have such good teachers.🙏🙏

[@ibenglishguys]

Thanks so much. We’re glad we can teach others around the world beyond our classroom walls. We’re all in this together!

[@lucianaalves5635]

May God bless you two! Helped me so much!

[@CPCH-gw6zk]

OMG!!! I'll record my IOA in may. It helped me a lot 🥺 thank youuuuuu. Continue with your grate mission 🙏🏻

[@tvishapatel169]

Thank you, your videos are very helpful 😇

[@ibkorean]

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

[@ibenglishguys]

I'm so glad!

[@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

[@Chipsinmypanini]

My io is in 2 hours, wish me luck

[@ibenglishguys]

Crush it!

[@adhamahmed7295]

How did it go?

[@googotygame]

What about the compare and contrast structure for the IO?

[@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?

[@googotygame]

Fr, I'm also confused about that.

[@peterohan57]

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

[@ibenglishguys]

Hi Peter. We like students to try to reference three OTHER moments in the novel where they see the global issue and then talk about these briefly, hopefully pointing to an interesting authorial choice of some kind. This cannot be long as they need to cover other parts of the text. Again, for smaller texts like poems, it’s wise to refer to three other poems in the work as a whole and point to the global issue. The student must try to balance the extract discussion with the discussion of the whole work and they need to be an expert on both. Not easy in the time allotted!

[@danielflorentin8984]

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?

[@ibenglishguys]

yes, exactly. Your zoom out should branch out to OTHER stories in the collection by the author and connect to that global issue. This is important to do and to also to consider (briefly) authorial choices in those other stories.

[@liushine1886]

Thank you guys so much😭

[@fergus2004]

I don't get it though. Should we have Zoom Out as a PEE and then go into Zoom In PEE, or should we have our PEEs in only the Zoom IN because my teacher says we shoudl have 3 PEEs per text??

[@ibenglishguys]

When we zoom in and analyze our extract, we need to try to make as many close references tied to features with explanation (PEE) as we can. This is close reading and you should really try to dig into details of the text and analyze author choices in terms of your GLOBAL ISSUE. The zoom out is not a close reading. This is where you make reference to other areas of the text where you see the global issue. You are not giving precise quotations or references here. You are talking about that chapter or that other cartoon and how it reflects the Global issue. Hope this makes sense.

[@fergus2004]

@@ibenglishguys thanks, this is very helpful 😁

[@gamingguy3363]

@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.

[@ibenglishguys]

Sounds like a good GI. Persepolis is a great text to choose.

[@gamingguy3363]

@@ibenglishguys Cheers guys!

[@knicolle7]

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?

[@ibenglishguys]

Yes, exactly. Focus on ONE comic for your extract (as long as it’s one page or so) and then offer a discussion of 2-3 additional comments by the same artist for your zoom out.

[@stephakaw1639]

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?

[@ibenglishguys]

Hi Steph. Glad you found the video helpful, and thank you for brining it to our attention that we forgot to add the links to sentence stems! I have added the links to the video and they should be available now. I have also added them below for quick reference. Best of luck to you :) Zoom Out Sentence Stems: docs.google.com/document/d/1fWhug0YyUeDzJo-tGYdoMgfpZ9xRobOJzhmpPS-iQyM/edit?usp=sharing Zoom In Sentence Stems: docs.google.com/document/d/1Brzj2BTxhd0NNropF4t_dNctGGCIeeeUFSqt7GL2ogY/edit?usp=sharing

[@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!

[@ibenglishguys]

Thank you for the question. Yes, the need to balance the "zoom in" and the "zoom out" is on the rubric. The term "extract" on the rubric refers to the "zoom in", and you can see this in Criteria A, B, and C. The words "and their works/texts" is found in A, B, and C. This refers to the "zoom out." So, please be sure to balance your time between the extracts and works as a whole. This is critical for IO success. Most importantly...keep the questions coming and let us know how we can help!

[@sandygaming2230]

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!

[@diegop.2976]

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?!

[@ibenglishguys]

Glad to hear the videos helped with your IO. We use Premiere Pro.

[@YogmantraRetreats-ko1rl]

Hi very helpful video, how do we zoom in and out for a poem as a literary text of choice?

[@ibenglishguys]

Zooming in means referring to your chosen poem relating to your global issue. Zooming out would be referring to 2-3 OTHER poems by the same poet linking to that same global issue.

[@davidodonoghue1092]

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.

[@ibenglishguys]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@maxbartsch9862]

can one of the same extracts be chosen in the same class?

[@ibenglishguys]

I think this is OK if your teacher is careful to make sure students are not collaborating and that they are entirely working independently.

[@ahg6201]

How many minutes should you spend talking about the wider body of work for each extract?

[@ibenglishguys]

I would say you want to shoot for two minutes. We like 1-2-2-2-2-1 for a rough time breakdown. 1 minute intro; 2 minute zoom in; 2 minute zoom out: Switch 2 minute zoom in; 2 minute zoom out; 1 minute conclusion. Of course these are estimates and you can order things a bit differently if you like. Keep BALANCE in mind. Give specific references in your zoom out but don’t spend time ANALYZING. This is your chance to show you are an expert on the body of work.

[@ahg6201]

@@ibenglishguys So when I analyse the global body of work for poetry, I don't need to point out any interesting lines and analyse them? Just a summary of how they overall convey the global issue?

[@ibenglishguys]

When discussing other poems, feel free to link to a feature or two and how they help articulate the GI. Nothing wrong with that at all. Please make sure to stay balanced with everything.

[@sulkel]

@@ibenglishguys what do you mean don't spend time analyzing? Isn't that the whole point of the IO? What is the point of not?