Option Internationale du Baccalaurat

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Option Internationale du Baccalauréat

• English

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A pre-university course in English language
Literature

• Texts contexts
• Ambiguity uncertainty alternative readings
• Textual analysis
• Critical theory

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Literature contexts

• E.g.Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

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A pre-university course in English language
literature

• Ambiguity uncertainty

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Objectives

• To offer a broad picture of British culture
• To develop students use of spoken written
  English to university level
• To develop a personal, well-informed
  understanding of literature
• To develop skills of reading, analysis, argument
  discourse
• To develop independent thought and flexibility of
  mind

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Description

• Two year course both years examined
• Written exam (3 texts)
• Oral exam (3 texts)

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Coefficients

• S Written 5 Oral 4.
• ES Written 5 Oral 4.
• L Written 6 Oral 4.

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Entente cordiale

• Partnership between Cambridge Assessment and
  French Ministry of Education.
• Partnership between British and French Inspectors
• Cambridge certify equivalence with A level

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Average marks (English) 2009

• Written 14.4
• Oral 15.1

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Comparison with A Level

• Equal academic standard, recognised by UK
  universities
• Similar pedagogical approach
• Similar style of questions
• Similar approach to assessment

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Differences from A Level

• Involvement of schools, especially St Germain
• An exam specially developed for bilingual pupils.
• All OIB teachers also act as examiners
• Oral exam
• Exploratory discussion of literature
• Presentation

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The Première team

• Nicholas Baker
• Michael Eccles
• Xana Jones
• Claire Lewis

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Première Texts

• Shakespeare, The Winters Tale
• John Webster, The White Devil
• James Joyce, Dubliners
• Synoptic topic on Modernism to be studied in
  Terminale (authors such as T.S. Eliot Virginia
  Woolf)

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The Terminale Team

• Nicholas Baker
• Xana Jones
• Sally Naylor
• Margaret Slaiding

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Terminale texts

• Shakespeare, Hamlet or
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Romantic poetry
• Monica Ali, Brick Lane
• John Webster, The White Devil
• Graham Swift, Waterland
• Alan Bennett, The History Boys

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A preparation for

• University study of any subject
• Study or work in an anglophone context
• Life