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Individual Oral Commentary (SL) Shooting an Elephant

The extract for this Individual Oral Commentary (IOC) is from George Orwell’s essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’. For teacher’s who would like to use this exemplar with their students, it is perhaps desirable, and certainly possible, for them to ask students to read the relatively short – and very famous! – essay prior to coming to class. Students should be familiar with the grading criteria, and should normally be asked...


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