A connotation is a word that suggests a meaning as to its literal meaning. An example would be pus immediately we thing of it as a negative or even icky word and it has a negative or "pejorative" connotation, when it is really a thick, yellow thing from a infected wound.
The theme is to live life in the now
The present
Don't live in the past
I can give you some ideas of what you can right about but its all on you or you could just ask your teacher
there are
Hobbies you can talk about
food
sports
family
somehting like that
Contractions
Nonstandard usage
Idioms