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events and rules Please bring only those students who participate in competitive events. Level I competitions are for 9th grade students or students who are in their first year of language study. Level II - for 10th grade students or students in their second year of language study, etc. Native speakers who have had schooling in the target language may not participate in any event. Those speakers, who use the target language at home but have never had any schooling in the target language, can participate in Geography competition and the Culture Bowl. Only students participating in the competitions and the judges will be allowed in the classrooms. Spectators are welcome for Skits and Culture Bowl Finals but must not interfere with or disrupt the performance and judging.
Number of Questions per Competition:
CULTURE BOWL has two rounds: the preliminary written
competition and the final round. A team of 4 students participates in
both events, but the preliminary round is not a team competition and
students cannot consult each other. Based on the results of the preliminary
competition (multiple-choice test), two teams in each language will
be selected to go to the final round. Since we have a separate geography
competition, we will try to exclude questions on geography from the
Culture Bowl. You should bear in mind, however, that it is very difficult
to separate culture from geography. We ask the teachers to submit questions by MARCH 1 in writing or electronically through our web page. We will make public the list with the questions and will use those questions in the final round. We might use some of the questions in the preliminary round. Please note that to make the selection of the finalists easier the questions on the preliminary round are generally harder than those in the final round. Culture Bowl and Geography Competitions for 2008 will
focus on the following countries: Spanish – Mexico.
Rules for the Culture Bowl Finals During the final round, competing teams will answer questions using a buzzer. Questions will be read in English. Students can confer with each other before buzzing-in but not after. Students can buzz-in at any time during the reading of the question, but they will have to answer immediately without hearing the rest of the question. If the answer is incorrect, another team will have a chance to hear the rest of the question and answer it. Any disrespectful or disruptive behavior will result in losing 1 point.
GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION is a written multiple-choice
test, which includes identifying:
POETRY READING consists of students reading aloud a poem, which will be sent in advance. At the time of the event, students will be given a copy of the poem by the judge. Students may not use their copies. Participants will be judged on the following criteria:
Extra points will be added if a student memorizes the poem. Two participants per level may participate in French and German. FOR SPANISH, ONLY ONE PARTICIPANT PER LEVEL may participate due to time and space limitations. Poetry for 2008 is now available:
The POSTER CONTEST theme for 2008:
"The Key that unlocks the World." We accept
one poster per language, per school, and up to 2 students per poster
can participate. Entries must be two dimensional and no larger than
24" x 36"; posters larger than this will be disqualified.
Posters must have some of the language of the competition (French, German,
or Spanish). Schools need to make sure that a 3 x 5 identification card
is stapled to the bottom right corner with the title, name(s) of the
student(s) who worked on the poster (no more than two), school
READING COMPREHENSION is a multiple-choice written competition in which 2 students per level can participate. Students will be given passages in the target language and will be asked reading comprehension questions in English.
SKITS may be a one-act play, a sketch, or an excerpt from a play involving from 2 to 6 participants, all of whom must have speaking parts. All parts must be memorized. Total time limit for preparation and performance is 10 minutes. The number of competing teams is limited because of time constraints. A single student should not dominate a performance. We award 3 points to the winning skits for the overall sweepstake competition. Skits will be judged on:
VOCABULARY RECOGNITION is a multiple-choice written competition in which participants choose the correct meaning for the given word or expression. This competition also tests the knowledge of grammar (verbal tenses). Two participants per level, per language may participate. Please understand that it is very difficult to divide vocabulary items by levels, because it depends in great part on a textbook one uses. We have looked through different textbooks and have divided vocabulary (to a certain degree still arbitrary) in the following manner: Level 1: Greetings & good-byes, forms of address, classroom objects and expressions, days of the week, dates, time, family members, professions, nationalities, household items, places in the city, present indicative of verbs, interrogative words, gender of nouns and adjectives, possessives, descriptive adjectives, and cardinal numbers up to 100. Level 2: Extension of the vocabulary topics from Level 1 plus colors, clothes, shopping, months, seasons, weather, demonstratives, comparatives, adverbs of place and time, reflexive verbs, present progressive and preterit of verbs, cardinal numbers up to 500, and ordinal numbers 1-10. Level 3: Extension of the vocabulary topics from Level 2 plus body parts, health, medical problems, foods, restaurants, imperfect tense, commands, idiomatic expressions, adverbs, cardinal numbers up to 1000. Level 4: Extension of the vocabulary topics from Level 3 plus sports, hotels, vacations, travel, animals, perfect tenses, future tense, conditional, subjunctive, numbers over 1000. You can use The First Thousand Words in French (or German or Spanish) as your guide.
Conversation Stations and Kiosk CONVERSATION STATIONS AND KIOSK are non-competitive activities and will give students an opportunity to have fun. In the Conversation Stations students can demonstrate their ability to sustain a short conversation in French, German, or Spanish and earn some "foreign currency." They can then purchase small items related to foreign languages or cultures from the Kiosk with earned “money.” Chinese, Japanese & Russian Activities CHINESE, JAPANESE & RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES will give your students an opportunity to explore different writing systems. Students can learn how to make Japanese origami, Russian kokoshnik, and other things.
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and language. Certificates will be awarded according to the following
criteria: