French
Presentation: Using a variety of tenses
This Revision Bite will give you practice in using a variety of tenses in your presentation.
In your presentation it is important to vary the tenses if you are aiming for a Grade C or above. Listen to Hayley's presentation, which lasts about one minute. Note how she uses different tenses when talking about the same topic.
Most of the presentation is in the present tense, but see if you can spot when Hayley uses the perfect tense (three times), the future tense (twice), imperfect tense (twice) and the conditional (once).
Hayley also used the present tense with 'depuis...' twice - can you spot where?
I am fairly sporty and my favourite sport is hockey. For four years I have played in the school team. I train every Wednesday after school and we often have a match on Saturday mornings against another school. Mrs Lewis, the PE teacher who is also our coach, is very enthusiastic. Before being a teacher, she was a professional sportswoman. She won numerous championships and she teaches us a lot. I am left wing. In February, our team played in the regional final of the schools tournament. Unfortunately, we lost - but it was a close match. I also do judo twice a week and I hope to be an orange belt soon. My sister has been doing judo as well, since the age of six. I'm very proud of her because despite being much younger than me she already is an orange belt. After my exams I am going to do a tennis course. Then I will join the tennis club. I love watching this sport on television - the French Open in France and the one in Wimbledon in England - and I would like to learn to play well.
One of the advantages of the presentation is that you can prepare thoroughly for it. You could write out your presentation and learn it and even record it and listen to yourself.
In the presentation you score most marks for 'communication'. This means you must have plenty to say for yourself. There is no point in being paranoid about accuracy if you're hardly saying anything!
To score the highest marks you should try to give reasons for the things you say. For example, if you say you don't eat something, say why (eg you don't like the taste).
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