Guided Speaking
Event Expectations:
Students come in and place their student label on the ballot. Lay the pages with images facedown. Students choose a page blindly that contains three pictures or, in the more advanced levels, a series of pictures that tell a story. Turn the selections upside down and let the students pick - they are different for preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals. They have 3 minutes to prepare and they can't ask you questions about it or use any resources. Then they speak about the selection for up to 3 minutes. Judging is based on the overall quality of French - vocabulary, idioms, grammar, richness of language. They are not judged based on their ability to narrate or tell a story.
Examples:
In level 1 you might expect to hear a lot of il/elle s’appelle, il/elle est, il/elle fait, il y a.
In 2, they may know some reflexive verbs and be able to go through se lever, se laver s’habiller, etc.
In 3, you should expect some passé composé, futur proche, maybe some object pronouns and definitely some solid sentences in some kind of order.
In 4 and above, they should be able to vary tenses, use lots of adjectives and maybe even throw in some subjunctive. They should be able to tell a story, not necessarily complete, and/or create a coherent narrative,
It’s a good idea to tell them before they start that when they’re done, they’re done. Sometimes they try to keep going for the full time and they begin to falter.
Students come in and place their student label on the ballot. Lay the pages with images facedown. Students choose a page blindly that contains three pictures or, in the more advanced levels, a series of pictures that tell a story. Turn the selections upside down and let the students pick - they are different for preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals. They have 3 minutes to prepare and they can't ask you questions about it or use any resources. Then they speak about the selection for up to 3 minutes. Judging is based on the overall quality of French - vocabulary, idioms, grammar, richness of language. They are not judged based on their ability to narrate or tell a story.
Examples:
In level 1 you might expect to hear a lot of il/elle s’appelle, il/elle est, il/elle fait, il y a.
In 2, they may know some reflexive verbs and be able to go through se lever, se laver s’habiller, etc.
In 3, you should expect some passé composé, futur proche, maybe some object pronouns and definitely some solid sentences in some kind of order.
In 4 and above, they should be able to vary tenses, use lots of adjectives and maybe even throw in some subjunctive. They should be able to tell a story, not necessarily complete, and/or create a coherent narrative,
It’s a good idea to tell them before they start that when they’re done, they’re done. Sometimes they try to keep going for the full time and they begin to falter.
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