Some ideas for your oral presentations... You're still looking for topics for your oral exam ? Maybe these lists will help you. Remember to choose something that really inspires you. & COUNTRIES CIVILISATION, HISTORY SOCIETY, MYTHS, TRENDS... America / Caribbeans Asia Europe PEOPLE & TRADITIONS Hong Kong Ireland The Common Wealth ( 53 dountries!) URBAN LEGENDS, MYTHS : The Native Americans (USA) Bermuda Triangle (mystery) Pakistan Ulster Most Haunted Places in the UK The Māori people (New Zealand) The Caribbeans Bangladesh Scotland The Aboriginals (Australia) Roswell & alien theories (USA) the Stolen Generation (Australia) The Loch Ness monster (UK) Dominica India England Pirates, buccaneers and corsairs (mostly UK) Frankenstein : book, movies... Ed & Lorraine Warren : The Conjuring Occult Museum Canada Philippines Wales (horror) Religious & public celebrations (in English speaking Grenada Singapore Malta countries) : Diwali, Holi (India), (USA), The Vampire stories (from literature, to movies & series) Halloween, St Patrick... Guyana Brunei Jersey

Great explorers & travellers : James Cook, GLOBALISATION / WORLD: Jamaica Malaysia Gibraltar (// Spanish) The Mexican Border (USA // Spanish) Francis Drake, Ernest Shackleton, Nellie Bly, Marie Trinidad & Tobago Kinglsey... Globalization : Mc Donald's/ Coca-Cola / Pepsi / Kellogg's / KFC / Heinz / Nike / Apple / Microsoft... Bermuda Great aviators : Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Disney & its world empire Wright brothers... The Social Networks (Facebook, , ...) Cayman Islands (banks) Great inventors : Alexander Graham Bell, Couchsurfing, Woofing (WWOOF)... Puerto Rico (// Spanish) Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Babbage, Ada Nollywood (Nigeria), Bollywood (India) Lovelace, James Watt, Isaac Newton... SOCIETY / TRENDS : MONUMENTS School systems around the world Oceania Africa Child Labour (India, Africa...) Famous museums : (UK), Tate , Australia Burundi Namibia Gallery (UK), V&A (UK), Guggeiheim (NY), MoMa Reality TV (USA, UK), Talent Shows (USA, UK) New Zealand Botswana Nigeria (NY)... Death penalty in the USA / Prisons in the USA Fiji Cameroon Rwanda The history of Hollywood & the US cinema Eritrea Sudan Micronesia Gambia Sierra Leone Stonehenge (UK) Obesity in the USA / Junk in the USA Papua New Guinea Ghana South Africa Sydney Opera (Australia) Teenage moms (UK, USA) Samoa Mauritius Tanzania Taj Mahal (India) Burn out Gangs in the USA / The Latinos Vanuatu Kenya Uganda New York Architecture Hawaii Lesotho Zambia London Architecture The importance of charities in the UK Political system in the UK or USA or India... Liberia Zimbabwe Malawi Seychelles FAMOUS PEOPLE AMERICAN HISTORY BRITISH & COMMON WEALTH HISTORY From the UK From the USA From other countries The Pioneers Salem & the Witches Bonnie & Clyde The British colonization of Australia King Arthur Nelson Mandela The Civil War Calamity Jane Slavery in the USA The British Empire (colonization) Robin Hood Buffalo Bill Desmond Tutu Pocahontas Prohibition & gangsters The British Raj (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) Henry VIII (Tudor) Women Suffrage Solomon Northup Kofi Annan The Great (Black Thursday) The Anglo-Zulu War Queen Elizabeth Al Capone Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti Martin Luther King The Segregation/Desegregation Queen Elizabeth II Civil Rights Movement The Apartheid (South Africa) Malcolm X Gandhi Hiroshima &v the atom bomb (USA, WW2) The Tudors Rosa Parks De/Colonization of India (India) Elvis Presley Pearl Harbour (USA, WW2) William Shakespeare Marilyn Monroe US Army in Wolrd War 2 Republic of Ireland: War of Independence Charles Darwin Josephine Baker Woodstock, the , the Beatnik movement Billie Holiday The Blitz (WW2) Charlie Chaplin The Vietnam War James Brown The Cold War The Suffragettes Winston Churchill Stephen King First man on the Moon (Neil Amstrong) The Royal Family Margaret Thatcher The USA and the Conquest of Space Bill Gates 9/11, Iraq War... FILMS ARTS & CULTURE UK Painters US Painters Other ideas... Black history : 12 Years a Slave, Roots, Django Unchained, Movies from any The Aboriginal art & folklore (Australia) James Abbott Whistler The Color Purple, Amistad, The Butler, Malcolm X, , The Francis Bacon Anglophone country Rosa Parks Story, The Help, 42, Glory, Invictus, Mandela : The Negro Spiritual (USA) Henry Ossawa Tanner Long Walk to Freedom, Ray, Ghosts of Mississippi... Henry Fuseli TV series from any The Blues Ernie Barnes Ford Madow Brown Anglophone country American History : Lincoln, J.Edgar, Pearl Harbour, Band of The Jazz Grant Wood (« American Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Appolo 13, JFK, the Dante Gabriel Rossetti Any actress, actor, film Untouchables, the Crucible... The RnB Gothic ») John Everett Millais director... from an The Hip-Hop (USA)The Arthurian Legends (UK) Anglophone country British History : Braveheart, Robin Hood, Elizabeth + The Edward Burne-Jones Golden Age, The King's Speech, Anonymous, Shakespeare in The Irish folklore Keith Haring Any singer or band from Love, Master & Commander, The Young Victoria, The Iron John William Waterhouse Indian gastronomy an Anglophone country Lady, The Queen... Francis Bacon British gastronomy Norman Rockwell Other countries : White Shadow (Tanzania), Gandhi, John Singer Sargent Any famous sportsman Basquiat Slumdog Millionaire (India), The Gods Must be Crazy (Africa), Fela Kuti & the Afrobeat or sportswoman from an David Hockney District 9 (South Africa), Totsi (South Africa), A Dry White Ameican Scene Painting Anglophone country Season (South Africa), Sarafina ! (South Africa), Blood Diamond (Africa), Zulu (South Africa), Skin (south Africa), Pop Art Any sport from an The Pre-raphaelites Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia), Ned Kelly (Australia)... Anglophone country