Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Here's an example of the oral presentation you have to prepare in the past simple tense: 

He was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

He was from Austria.

He was a composer.

He was a prodigious boy.

He wrote his first music when he was only five years old.

He travelled around Europe with his father and his sisters
and he played his music for some very important people.

He became very famous.

A lot of people loved his music.

He had two sons.

He was often ill and he died when he was only thirty-five years old.