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1. Introduce the theme
- I’d like to talk / speak about the theme Arts and Debates of Ideas.
- I’m going to deal with the theme Imaginary Worlds that we studied in « première ».
- I’d like to start by giving a definition of …
- First I will explain what I understand by …
2. Introduce your key question (= problématique)
- In order to illustrate this theme I will try to answer the question …
- We can ask ourselves in what way imaginary creatures and worlds in literature reflect the fears of our time.
- Let’s take a look at why / how …
- The question I have chosen to tackle this theme is : To what extent did art created by women make the status of women evolve at the end of the 20th century?
3. Present your plan and documents
- My presentation is made up of three main parts
- I will base my presentation on two main points : …
- I would first like to concentrate on… and then I will move on to… and finally I will take a look at…..
- In order to answer this question I have chosen several documents that we studied in class this year.
- First I’ll speak about … Then I’ll study …
4. Talk about the documents
- The document we studied is about … / focuses on… / deals with …
- This document is particularly interesting because it shows …
- The main idea behind this photo is that …
- This drawing illustrates the idea that …
- This article points out / underlines the fact that / stresses the fact that …
- The journalist draws our attention to the fact that….
- The author raises the problem of … / suggests that … / points out that … / warns us against …
5. Give your opinion
- In my opinion / from my point of view / as far as I am concerned…..
- I really feel that … / I get the impression that … / I can’t help thinking that … / I have the feeling that … / I am convinced that……
- I totally disagree with the fact that…
- There is no doubt that…
- I really find it hard to believe that …
6. Conclude
- To conclude I would like to say that …
- All in all I would like to point out that …
- To sum up I would like to say …
- In conclusion we can say that …
- So to recap I’d like to finish by saying …