Students reading aloud from prepared scripts during the assessment.

To view students who were trying out this assessment for the first time, and who relied a bit too much on a prepared script, which affected the naturalness of their interaction.

Reading aloud from prepared scripts results in a very unnatural performance in which students stumble over difficult words, lose all eye contact with their fellow students, distort their intonation patterns and make lots of grammatical mistakes. To view a student who used a PowerPoint very effectively to support an individual presentation on Popular Culture, Part B of the SBA component. Note: Teachers are reminded that the SBA component is only a relatively small part of the English curriculum, and thus should avoid over-assessment. Instead teachers are advised to integrate SBA in the curriculum and not to treat SBA as a separate 'paper'. Only teachers who are trained and authorized by the school as assessors are permitted to conduct SBA. Click to view the SBA Handbook for School Leaders and SBA Teachers' Handbook. Teachers are reminded to pay particular attention to chapters on authentication and malpractice.