Individual

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presentatio Une région de la France
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• Make your organisation very obvious so that the listener can follow your plan without looking at the page. Make it clear
which aspects you are going to talk about, then talk about them one at a time.
• Be fairly formal but address the audience (vous) directly on a number of occasions – ask rhetorical questions.
• Fill your presentation with facts but use interesting adjectives to make the audience interested in the subject.
• Give your opinion too.
• Choose a French region – Bretagne, Normandie, Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, etc. Do NOT choose Paris!
• Choose which three aspects of the region to concentrate on – choose only the most important or the most interesting.
• Collect your facts from the internet or books. Do your research in French so you will not have to translate later. Collect
important vocabulary – words and phrases. DO NOT cut and paste whole sentences – this is plagiarism.
• If you cannot find much about a certain aspect, perhaps you need to rethink which are the three most important.
 Development and organisation Structural elements & register
Introduction • Clearly introduce main topic • Je vous présente aujourd’hui

• Brief mention of main points (i.e. what are paragraphs 1-3 • Je vais vous expliquer / décrire
about?) • Il faut faire mention de…
• Je dois vous dire que…
• Vous savez déjà sans doute que
• Il va sans dire que
3 main • Topic sentence (general statement making topic of paragraph • Tout d’abord, regardons de près…
paragraphs • Considérons maintenant….
clear). e.g. Fishing is the biggest industry in Brittany.
(general to • Connaissez-vous que…..?
specific) • Use the POSITIVE phrases which we saw in the section
‘C’est Quoi la France?’ • Avez vous remarqué que…?
• Savez-vous que….?
• Vous pouvez imaginer que….
• Vous voyez, sans doute, que….
• Explanation. It has a long coastline and many natural harbours • Grâce à…
• À cause de…
• Étant donné le……
• Facts and figures. __% of all fish caught in France are from • Selon….
Breton ports. • La plupart des…
• La moitié de….
• Plus de / moins de….
• Examples. _____ is the largest port, with….. • Par exemple,…
• Un exemple frappant est…

• Issues. Young people these days are interested in less arduous

professions.
• Personal opinion. I find that it is natural that….. • À mon avis…
• Il me semble que…
• On peut dire que…
• Il est évident que…
• Je trouve bizarre que…
• Impressionant, non?
• Surprenant, non?
• Extraordinaire, non?
• (Mal)heureusement,
Conclusion • Summing up of most important points • Donc on peut voir que….
• Personal reflection • Bref,
• C’est une région qui…..

Connectives: donc, alors, pourtant, d’ailleurs, depuis, mais, en revanche, par contre.

Complex structures: y, depuis + present tense