Monday, 15 December 2008

WORKING ON THE ORAL PRESENTATION

As we have said in class, you have to prepare your oral presentation about

1. TYPES OF MUSIC
1. Its origins, characteristics, talk about names of bands and singers, recent hits.
2. Choose one group and talk about it.

You know different kind of people: Emo, snobs, heavies, posh, skaters, rappers, nerds, punks, grunge, freakies, hippies, rocker, squatters, skins and they all like different style of music.


2. IMPORTANT CITIES BECAUSE OF MUSIC
1. Choose a city that has become important by the music.
E.g. Liverpool (the Beatles)
Woodstock (hippies)
Seattle (grunge)
...
Talk about the type of music:
Its origins, characteristics, talk about names of bands and singers, recent hits.
2. Choose one group and talk about it.

Now, to start you have to post on your blog the first draft.Use images and videos to illustrate your presentation.

Guidelines for the draft:

Title: The history of Punk, Heavy, Pop, Rock....

Write 3 paragraphs.
1st. You can start talking about the origins. E.g "Punk rock began in New York .....
Then talk about the characteristics. E.g. Punks wore strange clothes, had strange hair,..
and finally talk about the type of music nowadays. E.g. Today punk ....

2nd. Talk about names of bands and singers. Name the first groups, who were the vocalist or guitarist. And important hits.

3rd. Choose a group and describe it.

To write paragraph 1 and 2, you can use as a model. Workbook p.16: Reading.
For paragraph 3, use Workbook p. 4: ex. 2 and p. 15: ex. 13.

Remember you have to use images and videos.