FREN105 oral exam

Spring 2005

In order to assess your oral proficiency, your ability to communicate in French about the topics we have studied this semester will be tested on May 17&18.

You will not have French class on those 2 days. You will sign up in class to take your exam with a partner of your choice at a specific time in a location announced by your instructor. To prepare, meet several times with your partner and speak in French about each topic. DO NOT memorize. The goal of practice is to gain confidence and ease when speaking. No notes may be used during the exam.

Your task will be to find out as much as you can about your partner by asking questions about the following areas of his/her life:

1. His/her family including physical descriptions, personalities, everyone's hobbies, activities, jobs, likes and dislikes etc..
2. His/her home (description of house or apt., what people do in the rooms of the house, favorite rooms and why, and the town in which the person lives including main important places in the town).
3. Life at the university; living arrangements, classes, activities, likes and dislikes.

So each person will be asking many questions and will be giving many answers. AVOID THE EXPRESSION Et toi?

Briefly, after your question/answer session with each other, your teachers will ask a few questions about the stories (and film) we have read (seen) in class. Here it is important for you to have reread the stories and reviewed the vocabulary of each story so as to answer clearly and with a variety of vocabulary.

Grading:

In determining your grade, the following will be considered:

- variety of vocabulary

- pronunciation

- accurate, correct language (grammatical accuracy)

- amount of detail you convey (content)

- ease of speech (fluency)