If you are ready and able to answer frequently. If you answer every now and then. If you do not speak French in class. While it is often difficult for the more timid student to participate in French, I encourage everyone to try. It is by making mistakes that we learn the most.
Communication is the key in participation.
You are trying to communicate a message, not necessarily make a perfect statement every time. This will consist of assigned exercises done from the textbook. Also included in the written work grade will be compositions based on the material discussed in class. These will be written at home, graded, and re-written. This exam will be given in the instructor's office during the week of May 1-5 It will take, more or less, ten minutes.