Oral Presentations

2 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP2 carried out the first part of their Speaking  Workshop.

Exercise 1: Speak Dating

You’re looking for the love of your life, right?  Here’s what you’re going to do:

• Each person will be given a letter ‘A’ or ‘B’;
• All of the ‘A’s will remain seated;
• All of the ‘B’s will rotate clockwise;
• Each conversation will last five minutes;
• Each of you will have, therefore, about 2.5 minutes to provide the listener with the following information:
• Your name
• Where you’re from;
• What you do for a living or what you’re doing at the moment;
• What your goals are for your future in terms of family, career, location.
• What your qualities are and what you feel you have to offer someone;
• What you look for in the perfect partner;
• What you’re willing to compromise on;
• Your ‘dealbreakers’ (i.e. what you simply will not accept in someone).

Exercise 2: The Tate Museum comes to FLUL

• You’re going to go around the art gallery in pairs.
• Each time you approach a painting, you will discuss the following with your partner:
• What you think the painting is about or what you think is happening in it;
• Anything you may know about the artist;
• What the painting makes you feel and why;
• What it reminds you of or makes you think of;
• Anything else the painting/photo inspires you to talk about.
• You have 15 minutes to see the whole gallery.
• You do not have to see all of the images or spend the same amount of time with each image.
• You are free to do exactly as you would in a real gallery.

Exercise 3: Tell a story or personal anecdote

• Tell me about a holiday you had.
• Tell me about a difficult journey you had.
• Tell me about a perfect day you’ve had.
• Tell me about a special event in your life.
• Tell me about a birthday you remember.
• Tell me about a time when you lost something important.
• Tell me about a time when you gave someone a surprise.

Next class: Part 2 of the Speaking Workshop