Bonjour,
I have some exciting news, I did my first presentation in French on Thursday. We had to chose an article from a newspaper here, this is really easy because there’s always people everywhere handing out free newspapers, and summarize it, and present it to the class. Luckily, I found an article about the Olympic games and how they were having trouble with the lack of snow on Cypress mountain.
In order to do my presentation I had to first completely understand my article by reading it over and over, searching all the words I didn’t know, asking French people about certain expressions. In all, it probably took me about 2 hours to fully understand. Then, I had to come up with a plan of how I was going to present my article and show it to the class. It had to consist of a title, an introduction, 3 main points and a conclusion. That took me about another two hours, due to the fact that I’m extremely indecisive.
Thursday came around and I was ready to start my presentation. I was extremely nervous just because I had to present in front of the entire class! But, I did my best everyone understood me very well and liked what I had to say. They asked me questions which I answered with ease. My teacher had a few comments about some of my pronunciations, mainly words that end in “tion,” like station (pronounced stay,shien in French) because they are the hardest for me because I tend to pronounce them the English way. All in all, it went very well, and really encouraged me more, like you CAN do this.
With Nothing Toulouse,
Amy