Terminale students
Each topic can be used to talk about all 4 exam themes
Myths & Heroes
Spaces & Exchanges
Power
Progress
You can talk about women's rights and their struggle for gender equality in Myths and Heroes, obviously but also Power, Progress and Spaces and Exchanges.
It's just a matter of using different angles
and finding the right key questions to start the debate.
For Myths and Heroes,
Tell their stories, who they are, what happened to them, what they did
Use adjectives > they were brave, determined, resilient, hard-working.
Use key nouns > they had so much courage, will power and resilience.
Focus on their qualities, and what they achieved,
why they are sheroes.
Here's a website that can really help you think about heroism
and the characteristics that you need to be a hero and that make people heroes.
For Power,
Focus on how women got more rights, what they did to get more rights.
Power is about those who have power and what they do with it, but it's also about those who haven't got power and what they do to get more.
This definition was given by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Have you heard of The Handmaid's Tale?
For Progress,
Look at the History of Women's Rights. Explain why they shook up the world, how their action changed the world and made things move forward, improved women's lives and how lucky were are today in most countries.
The thing is a lot of progress towards gender equality has been made, but the struggle is not over, far from it.
Check the documentary entitled Half The People from the BBC People's Century series
Listen to women pioneers that were interviewed in this programme.
In class we watched Hidden Figures by Theodore Melfi
We also watched Suffragette by Sarah Gavron
For Spaces and Exchanges,
Focus on demonstrations on 8th March for International Women's Day, films and the film industry, documentaries, adverts, media coverage and the mis-representation of women, books that women have written.
Basically, focus on the image of women in different spaces and how women try to voice their opinions and share their own stories.
Listen to Jean Kilbourne on advertising's image of women.
Which exam theme would you use Women's Rights in?
Use the GET READY FOR ORAL EXAMS GAME with questions and answers to help you talk about it like in the exam.
step 1: Write down what you want to say
step 2: Share it with me using Google Docs
for a quick feedback, suggestions and comments.
Remember to include your name and the exam theme in the title, please.
step 3: Create a mind map with key ideas
step 4: Record your voice.
Try to talk freely like in the exam
Get ready for the preparation time
> Write key words only
Use a timer
Learn time-management and stress-management
step 5: Anticipate questions in the interview
The examiner will ask you questions on what you said,
so it's vital to anticipate the questions you could get
> Get ready for the interview, too!
Record your voice on free questions and try to answer without notes.
TL = 10 minutes + 10 minutes = 20 minutes
TS / TES = 5 minutes + 5 minutes = 10 minutes
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