Oral Assessment I

French 601C, Fall 2011 Next week, outside of class, you will demonstrate your speaking skills in French during a visit with your FR 601C instructor. The visit will take place in your instructors office, and will last approximately 1-2 minutes. You should be able to present yourself (name, age, nationality, studies, etc.), describe a classroom, talk about your favorite pastimes, and describe your family, their names, and what they do. These tasks reflect what you have been doing in class in Ch. 12, as well as your writing assignments and written exams. In preparation, review the videos and vocabulary for Chapters 0-2, as well as the paragraphs you have written as homework and on the first two exams. When you come to your instructors office, he/she will give you a checklist of items to discuss. Your instructor will listen as you speak, but will not participate. Do your best to communicate as naturally as possible in French. Do not use English. If you realize you have made a mistake, you may correct yourself or clarify your ideas. Please keep in mind that this time will be for the oral assessment only. If you need to discuss your grade(s) in the class, or questions you may have related to the lesson, please come back during office hours or schedule an appointment to see your instructor at a later time. This assessment is worth 2.5% of your grade (see grading criteria below). You may wish to practice with the friendly TAs in the Tutorial Center of the French Department. To prepare for the first FR 601C oral assessment, you should be able to check off each box below. Bon courage! Chapters 0-1 I can
greet someone and ask how they are introduce myself (or someone else) tell someone what I study (or what someone else studies) describe a classroom tell someone where I am from (or where someone else is from) spell my name describe myself using a noun as an adjective (Cest tout un pome) readily recognize and use the numbers from 1 to 69 tell someone the date of my birthday say good-bye to someone

Chapter 2 I can
ask questions to gather information about someone else describe my family name the days of the week name the months of the year tell someone about my nationality, and the nationalities of others talk about my pastime(s) talk about my family members pastime(s) tell what my family members do (professions, studies, etc.) talk about pastimes that I do not like tell time (in official and non-official time)

BRING THIS SHEET WITH YOU TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS OFFICE EVALUATION RUBRIC: Task Completion 1 Minimal completion of task 2 Partial completion of task 3 Completion of task 4 Superior completion of task Comprehensibility 1 Barely comprehensible 2 Mostly comprehensible / speech requires significant interpretation on part of listener 3 Comprehensible / speech requires minimal interpretation on part of listener 4 Readily comprehensible Language Control / Grammar 1 Inadequate or inaccurate use of basic structures 2 More serious structural errors interfere with meaning (conjugation) 3 Structural errors do not affect meaning (adj. agreement, articles; etc.) 4 Excellent control of grammatical forms for course level Pronunciation/Fluency 1 Frequently interferes with communication / Speech is halting 2 Occasionally interferes with communication / Speech is choppy 3 Does not interfere with communication / Some hesitations 4 Correct pronunciation / Continuous speech Vocabulary 1 Inadequate 2 Somewhat inadequate 3 Adequate and accurate 4 Rich and varied Raw score: ______ / 20 x 5 = Converted % score:_________ %