[leaveiton]

Since there's so much talk of French, thought I'd set up a thread for the German oral

What does everyone have prepared? Just want to know if I'm missing anything important. In my oral copy I have the following topics (with lots of questions in each, obviously)

• Myself and my family
• My best friend
• Family relationships
• Pocket money
• Part time job
• School
• Daily routine
• Holidays
• The future
• Hobbies
• Where I live/my house

Think that's everything, might be forgetting a few things. Then obviously I have questions prepared on the themes from the pictures:

• Der Sommerjob - Part time jobs, working abroad, have you ever been to Germany
• Vorsicht beim Rauchen - Part time jobs again, living in the city/living in the country, smoking
• Schuleraustausch - Why people go on exchanges, learning foreign languages, have you ever been on an exchange
• Ruhestorung - What would you have done in the situation, old people vs young people, problems of old people, old people in my area
• Zu zweits geht's besser - Homework, studying, working alone vs working together

Anyone else want to add anything?

[SeanMadd]

Do you have anything prepared on "knowledge of Germany", the differences between Germany and Ireland, and the different school systems? I think I saw that somewhere, that they might come up.

[leaveiton]

Yeah, I've got that!

[JeaicMaG]

They ask things on your best friend? Um I'm really bad at German but I hope I can get full marks if I learn off all the answers and smile at the examiner

[DepoProvera]

Looks like you have everything covered, assuming each heading is sufficiently expanded..

Although I've never heard of them asking about a best friend..(unless you bring it up)

When is everybody's? Mine's Wednesday, can't wait to get it over with I'm sick of repeating this crap - Am Liebsten wäre ich zwei Wochen lang im Bett geblieben

[leaveiton]

Yeah I'm not sure if they ask about a best friend really, I know my teacher likes to ask it. It'd be easy enough to make up on the spot though if you really had to I suppose!

Mine's not til the second week, they're being done on Monday and Tuesday so I'll probably be on the Monday.

[DepoProvera]

They like to ask the 'Waren Sie schon in Deutschland?" in the General Questions also so don't let that put you off.

Also they might ask you if you'd like to settle down (niederlassen) in a different country/ study in Germany for a year so have something on that

[leaveiton]

Yeah all I stuff I have in relation to the picture sequences will be learned anyway just in case they decide to throw it into the general conversation

[finality]

Originally Posted by DepoProvera

Looks like you have everything covered, assuming each heading is sufficiently expanded..

Although I've never heard of them asking about a best friend..(unless you bring it up)

When is everybody's? Mine's Wednesday, can't wait to get it over with I'm sick of repeating this crap - Am Liebsten wäre ich zwei Wochen lang im Bett geblieben

There's something wrong with that German sentence. "Am Liebsten würde ich zwei Wochen im Bett verbringen" would be much simpler.




I'm not really preparing for the German oral, I don't want to learn things off - besides, I want to get Irish out of the way first. I'll definitely go over the roleplays and picture stories before it.

[DepoProvera]

Well there's nothing wrong with that sentence according to my teacher :L And simple =/= good for the oral imo!

[finality]

Originally Posted by DepoProvera

Well there's nothing wrong with that sentence according to my teacher :L And simple =/= good for the oral imo!

"ich wäre geblieben" - I would be stayed

Right? Or is this some crazy grammatical thing that's going over my head? :L

[DepoProvera]

I think its more 'would've remained in bed'.. Googling 'ich wäre geblieben' brings up the phrase used in German news articles so hopefully it's right haha

[finality]

OH now I get it, apparently I forgot that the past existed :L
Thanks for clearing that up!

There's even a song:



TERRIBLE song, but song nonetheless :L

[DepoProvera]

Ah, German music makes me so happy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggi-GsL9bx4

[nb93]

I have my German oral tommorow at 8:45 :/ any last minute advice for me?