YOUR SEMESTER ASSESSMENT

WHAT AM I ASSESSING?
1. All the classwork, tests and homework you've done this semester.
2. SPEAKING - Your MP3 speaking task; your structured speaking task in class about going out  with friends and health; your general (French) speaking participation in class.
3. LISTENING - Your general listening ability over the semester ie your comprehension of French spoken in class and exercises done in class; your results on the listening part of the exam.
4. READING - Your results on homework reading assessments over the course of the assessment; your responses to reading questions during class; your results on the reading part of the exam.
5. WRITING - Your blogs; your engagement in the editing process of your blogs; your results on the writing part of the exam; translation exercises done for homework over the semester.
6. CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING - Your engagement in discussions about French news and culture eg DSK, smoking and cannabis use in France, legal issues around Muslim women wearing the burqua and hijab, the French school system - and how the French cultural perspective differs from the Australian.

WHAT WILL BE ON THE EXAM
1. A listening text - questions to be answered in ENGLISH
2. A listening dictée
3. A verb table
4. A series of multiple choice exercises on the passé composé
5. A reading comprehension task - questions to be answered for the most part in ENGLISH
6. A English-French translation of two journal entries about health - specifically smoking.
7. A third journal entry of 100 words, following on from the first two, to be written in FRENCH.

HAPPY REVISING!