IB ENG SL YR 1 - ORAL COMMENTARY - LAST WORDS

If you are doing a commentary on Othello don't forget to talk about the genre;

1. Refer to drama and specifically Renaissance tragedy
2. Refer to the use of poetry within the drama - blank verse, iambic pentameters
3. refer to soliloquy, monologue, dialogue
4. refer to elements of courtly love
5. look out for patterns or structure within the extract you are talking about.

If you are doing a commentary on Gatsby don't forget to talk about the genre;

1. Refer to a modern novel
2. refer to the key elements of Fitzgerald's prose style - descriptive language, very concise and economic dialogue. Highly evocative - story informed by abstract ideas of the American dream and a love story - a romance
3. Refer to the third person narrator - Nick's subjective perceptive. His contempt for the kind of man Gatsby is contrasted with the strong attraction he has towards him. the one man striving for an ideal. Gatsby has a vision beyond the purely materialistic
4. refer to elements of courtly love
5. Refer to patterns or structures within the extract you are talking about.

IB ENG SL YR 1 - ORAL COMMENTARY TIMES AND ROOMS

17 – 21 JUNE- PREP ROOM IS 1E3 THE COMMENTARY ROOM WILL BE 1D7

NAME	DATE/TIME	ARRIVE	PREP	COMM	END
Jasmine	Monday 17 June	9.25	9.30	9.55	10.05
Anna	Thursday 20 June	12.30	12.35	1.00	1.10
Verity	Thursday 20 June	12.45	12.50	1.15	1.25
Tess	Friday 21 June	1.45	1.50	2.15	2.25
Julian	Friday 21 June	2.00	2.05	2.30	2.40

26 JUNE - PREP ROOM IS 1A9a AND THE COMMENTARY ROOM IS 1A13

NAME	DATE/TIME	ARRIVE	PREP	COMM	END
Adrian	Wednesday 26 June	9.55	10.00	10.25	10.35
Tristan	Wednesday 26 June	10.10	10.15	10.40	10.50
Helena	Wednesday 26 June	10.25	10.30	10.55	11.05
Laura	Wednesday 26 June	10.40	10.45	11.10	11.20
Karishma	Wednesday 26 June	10.55	11.00	11.25	11.35

27 JUNE - PREP ROOM IS 1A9a AND THE COMMENTARY ROOM IS 1A13

NAME	DATE/TIME	ARRIVE	PREP	COMM	END
Laurel	Thursday 27 June	12.35	12.40	1.05	1.15
Riya	Friday 28 June	10.30	10.40	11.00	11.10
Caroline	Thursday 27 June	1.05	1.10	1.35	1.45
Gaby	Thursday 27 June	1.20	1.25	1.50	2.0

 

IB ENG SL YR 1 - ORAL COMMENTARY - A MUST KNOW LIST OF TERMS

Below is a table of different analytical frameworks we have used over the year and you should be able to use in the oral commentary. If you are unclear about the meaning of these terms you should check out the glossary on this blog. Click here for a link to it. Or put the term into google to define the term and find examples.

Grammar	Syntax	Lexis	Register	Rhetoric	Literary
adjectives – comparative, superlative nouns – abstract, concrete, etc.  verbs, adverbs, adverbials, definite and indefinite articles	declaratives, imperatives, exclamatives, interrogatives, simple, compound complex	high and low frequency lexis, connotations, denotations, lexical fields, monosyllabic, polysyllabic	formal, informal, colloquial, idiolect, slang, contractions	repetition, list of 3, direct address, contrasting pairs	metaphor, simile, personification, symbolism, assonance onomatopoeia, alliteration rhyme
the functions of words within a sentence	sentence structures and sentence functions	vocabulary - words, their meanings, associations, simple and complex, grouped words	The relationship between text and reader / audience / other characters	persausive language techniques	artistic analysis of language -uses both mental images - imagery and sound techniques - phonology