If you've chosen one of these three projects, you are to make a 10 minutes' review of a book you've read, a film or a theatrical performance you've seen. Your task is twofold: 1) to inform the audience about a book (a movie, a play), speaking about its plot, message, features, and your personal impression of it; 2) to encourage people to read (see) it, or to prevent them from doing it if you think that the book (the film, the play) is bad.
If you're doing a book presentation, you should speak about the author, the main ideas of the book and give your personal opinion about its strong and weak points. If it is a fictional book you should give a brief characteristic of the central figures and the plot, avoiding a detailed retelling. You're welcome to comment on the language and stylistic devices used in the book. You may also focus on the most powerful episode, quote some bright passages, say what critics write about the book and whether it causes deep resonance in the society.
If you're doing a film presentation, don't forget to speak about the film director, the actors, the operator, the scriptwriter and other members of the picture crew, about special effects, costumes, music and other constituents of a film. Say where people can see the film. You may choose either a feature film or a documentary for your presentation.
If you're doing a drama presentation, don't forget to speak about the play and its genre, peculiarities of the staging, the light, the scenery, the music and other things of this kind and to evaluate the actors' performances. You may choose either drama or opera, musical or ballet for this type of presentation.
In book, film or drama presentation you are supposed to follow the general rules of speech-making. (See also I.SPEECHES)
