1 - Getting Started ~5 mins
This is the run-through of the work you already made. Today you run a full oral-exam practice: a short spoken conversation about your own work across all four modules. You then check that your Communication Portfolio holds evidence for all seventeen Key Assignments and the complete Reflective Journal, and you leave one sentence for next year's student.
The oral is a conversation about what you made and what you think. It is not a recital.
2 - Listen to a Model ~8 mins
Read this model oral once, then hear it read aloud if your teacher does. Notice how every claim names a real piece of work. That is the whole skill.
Your pieces will be different. Copy how every claim points at something real, not the titles themselves. This is one student's path, not a checklist of pieces you must match.
Model oral (practice shape)
When I started Module 1 I was quiet about my own writing. My first journal entry was a short page on who I was and what I wanted from two years of LCA. By the end of Module 1 I had an anchor text I could talk about, a named Key Assignment from Module 1, a spoken or dialogue piece, and a drafted and proofed written piece.
In Module 2 I researched a platform I already used. I completed a website analysis on sites I chose, and I wrote clauses for the class digital safety charter. Work experience changed how I thought about what I post: I cleaned one profile before a placement interview.
Module 3 was media. I compared one event across different channels, and I made a real advertisement for something in school. Film vocabulary finally stuck when I had to name a shot and say what it did to me.
Module 4 was my own voice. I composed a piece on a topic that mattered to me, reviewed a staged performance, and wrote the two-year journal entry. If I had to name one skill I own now, it is speaking about my work without reading it out.
To next year's student: keep the journal honest from week one. Future-you will need it.
3 - Write Your Lines ~12 mins
Plan the beats of your own oral practice. Fill each line with what you will actually say: name the piece, name the module, say one thing it taught you. Keep directions short. You are building notes for a conversation, not a script to read.
Your oral-exam talking points
4 - Say It Out Loud ~20 mins
This is the Portfolio Build. Work in this order:
- Deliver the oral from the talking points you just wrote. The beats on the screen match those notes so you can glance at them, not rewrite them. Speak it. Cover all four modules and name real pieces. If a microphone is not available, deliver it live to a partner or your teacher and get a sign-off.
- Fill the delivery fields on this page (how you delivered it, rough length, what went well, what you changed).
- Run a quick portfolio check against the class KA list your teacher set up for all seventeen Key Assignments, then file one note.
File that completed note as m4_l120_oral_practice_<your-initials>.txt in your Communication Portfolio. The filed file is this whole page note: delivery method, rough length, sign-off, what went well, what changed, KA and journal ticks, one gap, and one priority. If you used the recorder, you may paste the transcript under that note as optional evidence; it is not a second portfolio file.
If time is short: deliver the oral and file the practice note first; finish any KA gap list with your teacher after class.
Your oral practice
5 - What You'd Change ~10 mins
Review the oral you just heard (your partner's, or your own if you worked alone). Rate each row, write a specific comment on anything below Strong, and name the one change that would help most before the real oral examination.
After you swap, copy the one priority your partner wrote about your oral into your own m4_l120_oral_practice_<your-initials>.txt note. That priority is about your next practice, not theirs.
Feedback on the oral practice
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