first+test+4B+Weather

This is the first test I gave them. The little test was done on a group of 29 children. Normally they are 30 but one was missing. They are between 7 and 8 years old. They have been doing French with a french native speaker since Octobre. They have french lesson once a week for more or less 30 minutes. The lesson's topic was the Weather. They have to learn sentences like: To teach them the weather sentences, the teacher put some flashcards representing each sentence on the wall and have them repeated after her. Then I had an action which can represent the weather. By doing that I can have their attention and they do not get borred to soon. > After a while I did the actions alone and they had to say the sentences. > Once they were confident enough, we played a game that they loved. > I asked them to close their eyes and I took away one or two flashcards from the wall. Children had to guess which one was missing. > Finally I gave them their little test. They had to colour in, in the right colour, the right picture. Some of them started to panic saying that they did not know their colours, one girl even started crying. > The test went well but they copied on each other because the tables disposition allow them to do so. Basically, they are all facing each other on table of four or six. Moreover there was not enough crayons for all the students consequently some had to share. > In fact, the copies were collected from the table in order and they are all identical. > On 29 students, 22 got everything right, 6 made one mistake ( six girls sitting at the same table) and one child who was upset this day made two mistakes and then used two wrong colours. I think that the test does not proof his capacity because he is one of the best students but that day he simply did not want to do it. > > Most of them seem to understand what I was saying. My sentences were : colorie en rouge: il fait beau, colorie en bleu il pleut, colorie en jaune il neige.... > > To conclude I might say that this test is quite a failure, I am not sure that the data can be used.Anyway maybe they all understand french very well or they have a very good memory. I think the next test will confirm those results or prove them wrong.
 * ** il fait beau
 * il pleut
 * il fait mauvais
 * il y a des nuages
 * il neige
 * il fait froid
 * il fait chaud
 * il y a du vent.