First quiz in French!
I had my first quiz last week and I was actually quiet excited to be taking a quiz in french with french students and seeing how I have improved. The test was for my europeenne econonie class and it was basically facts so if you studied, you should get a good grade.
Just like for all my quizzes and tests, I made flashcards and went over then two times a day. I even brought them everywhere with me just in case I would get an opportunity to study even 1 or 2 flashcards. I studied on the metro and RER most of the times.
The professor for my class told us how the format of the quiz would be: 4 short reponse questions on anything we learned so far and gave us a few hints on what to study for the most. He made sure he made it clear that we have to know all the treaties, the date they were signed, who signed them and where. Good thing I listened.
When I turned over the quiz, I had to take a few minutes to think and make sure I understood the question before I started writing. Two out of the four questions were easy for me to write without having to think very hard. The other two were a little harder because one had a date and the other one I breifly read the night before.
We had one hour and 40 minutes to finish this 4 question quiz and I didn't understand why we needed that much time because the quiz was not long at all and there was not specified word limit we had to hit.
When I got to the last question, there was one word in the sentence that I didnt't understand so I thought I was screwed. It took me about 10 minutes trying to come up with a possible translation for the word. I wrote the sentence out in english and left a blank for the word and filled in different words to see if each makes sense. I chose to go with my gut and started writing.
When I finished the quiz and left the class, I quickly took out my phone and translated the word and let out a breath of fresh air because I knew that I had answered the question right.
Just like for all my quizzes and tests, I made flashcards and went over then two times a day. I even brought them everywhere with me just in case I would get an opportunity to study even 1 or 2 flashcards. I studied on the metro and RER most of the times.
The professor for my class told us how the format of the quiz would be: 4 short reponse questions on anything we learned so far and gave us a few hints on what to study for the most. He made sure he made it clear that we have to know all the treaties, the date they were signed, who signed them and where. Good thing I listened.
When I turned over the quiz, I had to take a few minutes to think and make sure I understood the question before I started writing. Two out of the four questions were easy for me to write without having to think very hard. The other two were a little harder because one had a date and the other one I breifly read the night before.
We had one hour and 40 minutes to finish this 4 question quiz and I didn't understand why we needed that much time because the quiz was not long at all and there was not specified word limit we had to hit.
When I got to the last question, there was one word in the sentence that I didnt't understand so I thought I was screwed. It took me about 10 minutes trying to come up with a possible translation for the word. I wrote the sentence out in english and left a blank for the word and filled in different words to see if each makes sense. I chose to go with my gut and started writing.
When I finished the quiz and left the class, I quickly took out my phone and translated the word and let out a breath of fresh air because I knew that I had answered the question right.
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