6. Your Task

ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Famous People

- Individual presentations

- Create a PowerPoint presentation or use prezi.com to introduce a famous person (see list below).

- Your presentation must be at least 2'30 minute-long, display pictures and only headlines, dates or vocabulary on each slide. (-2 points)

- You will have to explain why they are famous and what is important to know about them. /5 points

Please avoid useless comments like “he went to Harvard and studied law for three years, then he got married to Anna Hardy in 1894, they had 5 children. One of them died in 1912...”

- The last slide of your presentation will contain questions (5 minimum) for the class, so you can make sure they listened to you and are able to answer the questions. / 5 points

LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE

WRITERS: William Shakespeare (playwright, poet, actor), Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway

EXPLORERS: Lewis and Clark, Captain James Cook

FILM DIRECTORS: Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin (actor, director)

INVENTORS: Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein

PASTORS: Martin Luther King

ARTISTS: Andy Warhol

INDIAN CHIEFS: Sitting Bull

ASTRONAUTS: Neil Armstrong

POLITICIANS: Winston Churchill (politician, PM)

ROYALTIES: Queen Victoria

SINGERS: Elvis Presley (singer, composer), Bob Dylan (composer, singer), The Beatles (band, composers)

NURSES: Florence Nightingale

AVIATORS: Charles Lindbergh

SCIENTISTS: Benjamin Franklin (writer, physicist), Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac Newton (mathematician, physicist...)

PRODUCTION ORALE EN CONTINU / 10 points