Oral Presentation Options
Option 1: Due date:__________
Describe significant landmarks, local cuisine, sports, fun places to visit, local expressions, and/or traditions and customs of a European country where French is widely spoken, such as France, Switzerland, or Belgium. Present a minimum of 15 interesting facts about the country in a creative form
- f presentation (such as a commercial, an audio-visual presentation, a cooking show, an interview,
playing the amazing race through the country, writing a story, or presenting a photo album with stories
- f what happened in different areas of the country on a family trip – real or imagined, etc.). Consider
including any interesting French expressions from the region that you choose and decide who your intended audience would be for the presentation. Draw some conclusions about the country, based on your research and back up your opinion. Do you think that it would be a good place to live? Why or why not? Would you recommend it as a good tourist destination? Why or why not? Use visual aids, such as pictures, graphs, or souvenirs to support and enhance your presentation.
Option 2:
Identify and explain reasons for learning French; deliver a presentation about the lifelong benefits of learning another language and exploring other cultures – including improved opportunities for careers, summer jobs, friendship, and travel; identify and report on examples of the use of French in your immediate environment. Draw some conclusions about learning French, based on your research and support your opinion with examples. Use visual aids, such as pictures and/or graphs to support and enhance your presentation.
Written Assignment
Due date:________
Find a creative way to communicate the information from your oral presentation in writing, such as a brochure, a travel guide, a journal, a speech, a power point presentation, a magazine, a story, a movie (which will have subtitles or a script
- f some sort), a poster, an email or text information about an
exchange for a student or family to that country, a newspaper article to describe career opportunities for bilingual workers and related education/training, requirements in a brochure for distribution at a job fair, a “special offer” in an advertising flyer… Make sure to revise and edit your work. Check for conventions, spelling, and grammar. Also, make sure to look up any English words that you are unsure of, so that there is no English in your
- assignment. Back up your opinions with examples and/or arguments to support it.
Questions:
Submit 5 questions about your presentation (with the answers), asking about main points that you presented. La Belgique