05. Final Task - Famous people

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 minute-long (WITHOUT THE QUESTIONS), display pictures and only headlines, dates or vocabulary (difficult words explained or keywords) 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...”

- You will include 5 sentences "He/she had to …" and 5 sentences “She/he couldn´t” …

/5 points

- 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.

/ 2,5 points

- Pronunciation [ed] final au preterit.

/ 2,5 points

LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE

WRITERS:

William Shakespeare (playwright, poet, actor), Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Brontë, Arthur Conan Doyle

EXPLORERS:

Lewis and Clark, Captain James Cook

INVENTORS:

Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein

PASTORS:

Martin Luther King

ARTISTS:

Andy Warhol

INDIAN CHIEFS:

Sitting Bull

POLITICIANS:

Winston Churchill (politician, PM)

ROYALTIES:

Queen Victoria

NURSES:

Florence Nightingale

AVIATORS:

Charles Lindbergh

SCIENTISTS:

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

PRODUCTION ORALE EN CONTINU / 5 points