Oral presentation: Talk about your favourite song, film, book, poem, …

A. Subject:

B. Getting ready:

B1. Sources: Give the name and address of the websites where you found relevant information.

Website - www.website.com/blahblah/ : a biography of the artist, a review of the film, etc.

B2. Collect, gather and group elements from your sources. The chat must contain at least 30 (relevant!)
elements.

Nouns verbs Phrases and structures

C. Organizing the presentation:

C1. INTRODUCE - WHAT (genre etc), WHO (director, writer etc), WHEN (released = sortie film / published book)

C2. SUMMARIZE (The story, the plot (l'intrigue), the heart of the problem, the core of question, the main issue,
topic).

C3. COMMENT
⇒ CLASSIFY the different themes

This

⇒ INTERPRET the vision of the author

The singer show that…

The director wants to suggest that …
The actor indicate that ….
• By doing this The journalist make us feel that ..
The writer intends to make us realize that ..
The author make us understand that ..

the reader to feel that …

wants the viewer to realize that …
the audience to understand …
us to …..

⇒ REACT by stating your personal opinion.

striking
incredible
interesting in
• What I find the most ironical this ....... is that .......
ridiculous
impressive about
threatening
unpleasant

in the fact
• What strikes me the most this the notion that .....
about ..... is the idea

• It makes me think of / It reminds me of / This obviously refers to, alludes to …

• To me / To my mind / In my opinion

C4. CONCLUDE
To sum up, In a word, in short, in brief, to conclude, in conclusion