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The Presentation
Possible topics for a Presentation:
  • A holiday           
  • A hobby           
  • A hero of yours, a person you admire        
  • A Festival
  • Where you live
  • An aspect of your school life
  • Your healthy lifestyle
  • Future plans & ambitions
  • Shopping (favorite shops, etc)
  • ​A special family occasion / a special meal
Make sure your presentation covers one topic area only.​
Language: Things to include:
- a few tenses (you don't have to have all of them, but at least two or three of PRESENT / PERFECT / IMPERFECT / FUTURE / CONDITIONAL)
- Depuis + present tense
- connectives: mais / parce que / où
- relative pronouns: qui / que
- j'aime / je préfère / j'apprécie / ce que j'aime le plus est... / ce que j'aime le moins est...
- je trouve que / je pense que / je crois que / selon moi
- Time indicators for a sequence of events: d'abord / ensuite / après ça / finalement
- adjectives to express opinions (NOT amusant / intéressant / ennuyeux  > OVER-USED!) - see table below
- adjectives to describe things (other than beau...)
- adjectives to describe people (other than gentil / sympa)
- Si-clauses : si j'avais plus de temps (+ conditional verb) ; si j'avais plus d'argent (+ conditional verb)
- comparatives: plus + adj, moins + adj (with exception: c'est mieux = it's better)
- possessives (mon, ma , mes): mon école, toute ma famille, tous mes amis, notre famille
- time expressions: avant, après, pendant, à (+time), tous les jours
Useful adverbs:
certainement; réellement, vraiment; absolument; évidemment; surement; sans doute; incontestablement; probablement; rarement; justement; effectivement, simplement, joyeusement, (mal)heureusement, normalement, spécialement, rapidement, facilement, clairement, seulement
This Synonyms dictionary is easy to use and fantastic to vary your language:
TIPS:
- Do NOT write your text in English first
- Do NOT use Google Translate for whole sentences
- Do NOT learn something you wouldn't be able to translate

​DO write something basic to start with, but which is the result of YOUR thinking and YOUR putting the words together.
It will be much easier to learn, and you will be able to add a few details and more complex vocabulary here and there when you already know it well.

BE CLEVER: Use bits of class work or homework that have been marked by your teacher, use key expressions that you have come across in exercises or that you can find in your textbook.
YOUR part will be to re-arrange them, copy and paste, link ideas into a fluid and coherent little text. So it will be YOUR work, even though you may have copied sentences from books.