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** French 2017 - Discussion

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  • 13-06-2017 9:15pm
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    thetalker
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭


    So what do people expect to come up for french, any last minute topics that should be covered in case?

    What about for the reading comprehensions, when they ask for 'a verb in the past participle etc' any idea how many kinds of those there are or where to have an easy clue.


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    thetalker
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭thetalker


    For anyone interested, I had a look through the years and here's a few they've asked

    adverb- used between a noun and pronoun e.g assez, deja, enfin, partout (according to internet)

    preposition- used between nouns like apres avant, dans, sur etc

    conditional- ends in ais,ait, ions, aient (not exact order) e.g {j'aimerais} aller au parc

    Imperatif- used in giving orders e.g Ecoutez! Arretez!

    Subjunctive- after que, e.g Il faut que je (fasse) la vaiselle

    Present Participle - ends in ant, a doing word like e.g parlant, mangant, sortant

    Well thats all I can think of, good luck everyone!


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    #3
    thetalker
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭thetalker


    So uh am I the only one who does french here.

    Found the paper alright, don't think I could figure out what the adverb was though.


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
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    Couldn't get the adverb either. But nice comprehensions, nice written pieces and a decent tape


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    Nyctolust
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    Love how tourism was the ONE opinion piece I didn't read over last night or this morning... Did it anyways and still think it went okay, as well as the other written pieces. Comprehensions were lovely, most of the listening was alright


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
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    Ended up doing the tourism, the journal intime (said I met Hugh Laurie) and the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping


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    Ponguin
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Ponguin


    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    Ended up doing the tourism, the journal intime (said I met Hugh Laurie) and the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping

    I did the exact same :P


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Ponguin wrote: »
    I did the exact same :P

    Hugh Laurie and everything? :pac:

    I had never done anything on online shopping before, I just said you can buy a lot of things without leaving the house, can look at recommendations before buying stuff but that it can be tricky to return stuff.

    A lot of my year went for the Brexit, which I'm sure was a great choice if you actually learnt something for it, which I didn't. I just learned a few one size fits all sentences last night.

    Is it ok to take some inspiration from the comprehensions? For the tourism question I rehashed the stuff about using information signs effectively from the first comprehension to fill out a paragraph, but everything else was original.

    Now I want to buy a goat :pac: I hear they're similar enough to sheep


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    randylonghorn
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    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    Now I want to buy a goat :pac: I hear they're similar enough to sheep
    0_o

    o_0

    I'm afraid to ask .... :pac:


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    Nyctolust
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Nyctolust


    It's definitely okay to take inspiration from the comprehensions, in fact I was told that they enjoy that (just like they would in the other languages) since it shows you really understood - and engaged with - the comprehensions.

    Hahaha I had a good laugh at that section of the listening, Ysabel and her goats


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    Melydi
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    I'm a native speaker but I told my friends before it started that an adverb usually ends in -ment, hopefully they remembered as it was in the last section of the text.


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    Ponguin
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Ponguin


    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    Hugh Laurie and everything? :pac:

    Afraid not as I don't actually know who that is :P went a bit more mainstream with the ed sheeran route


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    randylonghorn
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    Ponguin wrote: »
    Afraid not as I don't actually know who that is :P went a bit more mainstream with the ed sheeran route
    Hugh-Laurie-bio-450x600.jpg?itok=I1xLpSEl

    House, Blackadder, etc. etc. ;)


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    Ponguin
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Ponguin


    Ah yeah I know that face thanks 😂 Never in a million years would I have thought to write about him hahah


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    Ponguin
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Ponguin


    What did y'all write down for the Q in reading comp 2 about the girl losing her appetite, did it have something to do with burning hair?


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    thetalker
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    Yeah the reason was she couldn't eat with the thought of a guy who's hair was on fire running around.


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
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    By the way, for the very last part of the tape, what did everyone say caught fire? I said a canopy even though I don't see how there could be a canopy in an apartment. More have said a mat, a lampshade, the curtains...


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    daraghwal
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    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    By the way, for the very last part of the tape, what did everyone say caught fire? I said a canopy even though I don't see how there could be a canopy in an apartment. More have said a mat, a lampshade, the curtains...

    It was in the paper today as some sort of sofa/couch. They will probably only award 1 mark for it because nobody knew what it was!. How did everyone find the aural?


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    Nyctolust
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    Yeah, the word everyone mistakes for 'canopy' is a sofa. Me learning words for various different kinds of furniture in first year had its perks I guess. lol

    I thought it was okay. Doubt I did as well as I usually do though.


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    Nulty18
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    Was it notament for adverb in comprehension


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    blueee
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭blueee


    Do you have to quote the text for the last questions of the comprehensions? When you answer In English? I'm worried because someone said afterwards that you don't get marks if you don't quote, and I didn't- if that was true that would be 5% gone!


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    Nyctolust
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Nyctolust


    It always just says refer to the text, so I'm not sure if that means you absolutely HAVE to quote or if it means you can just say what the gist of a section was in English, but I always quote as well just in case even just to fill up the lines.


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