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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #180 on: January 29, 2011, 11:17:24 pm »
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About 600 - 1000.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #181 on: January 30, 2011, 09:53:24 am »
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Good pacing and annunciation ends up being roughly 100 words per minute.
I think we have 6-10 minutes - but it's not the school that sets it, I think it's the same for all vce schools across the board.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #182 on: January 30, 2011, 10:39:17 am »
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It's the school that sets it, VCAA gives no direction on time.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #183 on: January 30, 2011, 10:45:30 am »
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oh wow, really?
That kind of... annoys me.
You'd think they'd have the same rules across the board.

May add that into my actual speech on how the education system is flawed :P
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #184 on: January 30, 2011, 10:51:06 am »
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Yeah have a look at the study design and you can see all of their instruction for SACs. They're pretty general the only real restriction is on what sort of a response it can be. I don't think it's that bad though, students are only competing against students in their own school for their SACs (essentially), then marks are calibrated across schools by VCAA.

LOL, go ahead :P
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #185 on: February 03, 2011, 05:17:40 pm »
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Is there a place we can post our orals so we can get advice?
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #186 on: February 03, 2011, 08:42:34 pm »
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Quote from: cltf on February 03, 2011, 05:17:40 pm
Is there a place we can post our orals so we can get advice?

Yeah, feel free to post in the general English/ESL area and people will help you out.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #187 on: February 06, 2011, 10:40:51 am »
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Hey guys

I'm doing an oral presentation on Year of Wonders
Do you think using a video to generate audience interest would be a good idea or would i lose marks from straying too far away from the text?

If any of you have read Year of Wonders, I was thinking of showing pyschological studies on how people conform to gender roles/follow what others are doing and how different people react when faced with danger.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #188 on: February 06, 2011, 03:42:59 pm »
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I just thought about something

Does the issue have to be Australia related?

I'm thinking the intrusive Airport Security scanners
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #189 on: February 06, 2011, 04:05:08 pm »
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This is from VCAA: 'a point of view on an issue currently debated in the Australian media,'

But umm, my school never told us the issue has to be Australian? It's not even mentioned in the marking criteria, and I've chosen Wikileaks -.- Do I go ahead and do it anyway? My rough draft of my speech doesn't have much references to Australia though.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #190 on: February 06, 2011, 07:18:50 pm »
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Yeah, it definitely has to be something Australian.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #191 on: February 06, 2011, 07:46:16 pm »
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Quote from: Ghost! on February 06, 2011, 07:18:50 pm
Yeah, it definitely has to be something Australian.

lol, we were told it just has to have appeared in Australian media (ie. could be Aussie or international)
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #192 on: February 06, 2011, 07:48:11 pm »
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It's different from school to school, vcaa only gives guidelines, so just ask your teacher
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #193 on: February 06, 2011, 08:03:23 pm »
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Quote from: a/b on February 06, 2011, 04:05:08 pm
This is from VCAA: 'a point of view on an issue currently debated in the Australian media,'

But umm, my school never told us the issue has to be Australian? It's not even mentioned in the marking criteria, and I've chosen Wikileaks -.- Do I go ahead and do it anyway? My rough draft of my speech doesn't have much references to Australia though.

Well I'm doing wikileaks, and my teacher says it is Australian. My oral is in the forum so you can go check that out.
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Re: English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies
« Reply #194 on: February 06, 2011, 08:05:32 pm »
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Oh, thanks everyone. Yeah I read it, it sounds really good ! I love the start :) I guess I just need to relate it to Australia more, maybe with Gillard and stuff.
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