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Skills Free
You may have an excellent understanding of the Part 4 works, but if you lack the skills to express these ideas, performance on the individual oral commentary could be poor. In these pages several skill-building...
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Criteria
Before the individual oral commentary is taken, you should have a good understanding of the assessment criteria. Students will want to practice assessing their own work, a classmate's work, or a recording...
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WT2 Q6 (Pretty Woman)
The sample written task 2 on this page is on Pretty Woman, a Hollywood movie from 1990 by J.F. Lawton. Although this text was not studied in class, the student received permission to work on this after...
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WT2 Q5 (ACLU)
The following written task 2 took its inspiration from a lesson on racial profiling, in which students studied various text types. One of the texts was a public service announcement from the American...
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WT2 Q2 (Pygmalion)
The sample critical response (written task 2) presented on this page was written after studying Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, which was written in 1912. This work is very versatile and lends...
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WT2 Q1 (Pieta)
The sample written task 2 below has taken its inspiration from a United Colors of Benetton advertisement. Students studied language and taboo in Part 1, with a particular focus on AIDS awareness campaigns...
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WT2 Tips Free
Before you start writing a written task 2, or 'critical response', you will need a strategy or 'game plan'. The list of tips below offers you a step-by-step approach for this task. You will notice that...
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WT1 SL S3 (CK) Free
This sample written task is written by Michael Michell, who teaches at the International School of Amsterdam. The task is the product of a greater unit on the portrayal of women and sex in advertising....
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WT1 SL S2 (Internet)
The following written task 1 takes its inspiration from a series of lessons on the Internet and how it is redefining how we communicate. The task is relevant to the first learning outcome of Part 2, which...
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WT1 SL S1 (2pac)
The following sample student work stems from a unit on language and race in Part 1 of the syllabus. As a class, students explored several texts from African Americans, analyzing language use as an expression...