Talk About

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 ⇒

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INTERPRET the vision of the author

By doing this

The The The The The The

singer director actor journalist writer author

wants to intends to

wants

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show that… suggest that … indicate that …. make us feel that .. make us realize that .. make us understand that .. the reader to feel that … the viewer to realize that … the audience to understand … us to …..

REACT by stating your personal opinion.

What I find the most

striking incredible interesting ironical ridiculous impressive threatening unpleasant

What strikes me the most

in about

in

this ....... is that .......

about

this ..... is

the fact the notion the idea

that .....

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

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To me / To my mind / In my opinion

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