Honours German

oeNeo

What essays/letters do people think are gonna come up? I've heard so far that the EU and the smoking ban are likely. Any others?

Lantis

I'm guessing smoking for Ausserung, EU for letter. Which means Fremdsprachen, Kulturen, all that stuff.

But prediction hasn't got anyone anywhere so far. :dunno:

PrecariousNuts

My german german teacher thinks obesity might rear its fat head somewhere

Drag00n79

Unfortunately, the "schriftliche Produktion" section of the German paper is not as easy to predict as it once was. Since 1998, the letter has consisted of about four different themes. They do tend to be topical and sometimes relate to the themes of the picture stories/role-plays in the orals. Possibilities include: racism, smoking ban, bullying (or discrimination in general), refugees, EU enlargement, world of work for young people, environment. There is always one topic in the letter which you really couldn't predict as well.

By the way, the vast majority of candidates (approx 90%) opt for the letter not the essay. However the Department persist in making the essay option the more difficult one every year. Does not make a lot of sense but then again the Department often doesn't!


I can e-mail sample material on the above topics if anyone wants.

purplepolkadot

oooh oooh oooh yes please lisa_reilly@hotmail.com
yeah i know i should PM but i can't be bummed, i'm eh, studyin', yes that sounds plausible.


any hints for grammar? anyone?

Mutant_Fruit

for grammer you should know it already... if not you're fairly screwed.

Be able to recognise verbs in infinitive (look for a model verb insame sentance) adjectives, subjunctive, plu perfect, perfect, imperfect etc

Drag00n79

Of course while they could test any part of grammar, the Department like asking certain things:

adjective endings;

forming questions (especially when the sentence consists of a verb plus a preposition);

stating the number, gender and case of an underlined noun in a sentence.

Make sure you know the grammar terms in German. Do previous papers if you haven't already, as the same topics alternate every year. Adjectives are due again this year.

Drag00n79

Oh, I forgot to mention "Drogen" as a possible topic for the "schriftliche Produktion" as well.:eek:

oeNeo

Could you email me the notes? oeneo@eircom.net

Thanks for the tips. Are you a teacher or something?

Mutant_Fruit

terminator AT dublin dotto com

Un-spammify that e-mail, and send me those notes if you could. Any extra info to help order my thoughts would be great. I'm just refreshing about 100 odd phrases and words at the moment.

purplepolkadot

oh i know i'm actually quite good at the oul schreiben auf deutsch it's me second best subject! it's just grammar throws me and i'm trying for an A.

Drag00n79

I'l e-mail the notes to everyone but it prob won't be til tomorrow afternoon, as all my German material is on another computer (ohne Modem!). I have excellent and original notes (imho ) on all grammar topics too. Please state what you are looking for, as there is too much to send in total. Yes, I teach German.

oeNeo

I'm fine for grammar so I'm just looking for notes you might have on the EU, racism and the smoking ban. Thanks a lot.

Healio

"Rauch Verbot, Straff-punkte und die neues EU"

Straff-Punkte=penalty points

SeanPuddin

me to please satandiscs@hotmail.com

at a grind i was given a bunch of notes on the new EU states...

Mikill

If you could send me the notes on the EU,Racism,Smoking Ban as well that would
be a great help.
Thanks.

mikill@utvinternet.com

Drag00n79

I have just sent off those materials, if you check your inboxes.

oeNeo

Got it, thanks.

Mikill

Got the mail.
Much Appreciated.

lintdrummer

Any chance you could send me the topical stuff Shamrok? EU, Smoking ban etc. wud b v. much appreciated. Thanks a mil!

emmettogara@hotmail.com

Patrick

Hi Shamrok. Could you send me the topical stuff please? EU, smoking ban etc? Much appreciated, cheers!

ampis at esatclear dot ie

Fortinbras'

oeNeo wrote:

What essays/letters do people think are gonna come up? I've heard so far that the EU and the smoking ban are likely. Any others?

violence in sport looks likely

Africa

need em too if possible!

kanecaswell@hotmail.com

sarahg_angel69

hi, can u send me the topical stuff....refugees..smoking ban..eu...cheers
sarahg_angel69@hotmail.com

D-Generate

EU, Smoking Ban, Drugs and racism please

emptierthan@hotmail.com

Thanks!

Cutie18Ireland

ye did realise that post is from last year!! right???

D-Generate

Ah no! Damn that person going around bringing back up German threads!

Africa

WTF???? That appears to be me???

Hm.....well i did not stray off the first page at all, i have no idea how i did that. Makes no sense. Especially since i only display them from the last month...

Strange....

*i advise close this?*

7thSeal

king.of.all.things.salty@gmail.com

If you can send me those I'd really appreciate it, thanks

Sully

Higher Level German :O you mad? :P

7thSeal

Yes!
I failed it at the pre
But I pretty much failed everything at the pre
They made it seem so easy in first year

jennifer

Shamrok: Könnten Sie bitte mir einige Notizen schicken? ...Wäre sehr viel geschätzt. Alles auf irgendetwas - viel geschätzt....
As you can see not so good with the on-the-spot deutsch - need notes!!! Would be very much appreciated, my email is jennifer.oc@gmail.com
Vielen vielen Dank

Cherry_Pie

So has anyone got any predictions for this year??

jennifer

It's hard to know with a language as it's pretty broad but i'm goin for Die EU erweiterung, drogen/rauschgift, fettlebigkeit, das rauchverbot, rassismus/ Bildergeschichte themen - maybe fahrende Leute und erfolg in der Schule auch! oh and kriminalitat.

7thSeal

Could someone host some letters and/or ausrung zum theama

jennifer

there's always gonna be something there that you havn't prepared so i'd go through my grammer and learn some expressions cos you can put them in anywhere!! zum beispiel - Das ist ein enormer vortiel....Das ist ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung......Das ist Stoff zum Nachdenken....es gibt keinen Zweifel daran....Das lasst viel zu wunschen ubbig.... stuff like that! works every time!

ashmurph

it would be great if u could pleez send me some notes on the eu and drugs. my address is sportyaisling@hotmail.com
my teacher is predicting some writing about a car accident to come up or else on the tape so vocab in that could be important. also i think a formal letter has a good chance of coming up as it hasnt in a while

7thSeal

If anyone has any notes
Please send me some
I have nothing done
My teacher is crap

king.of.all.things.salty@gmail.com

*Roisin*

Somebody stole my german folder the last day of school.

I have NO notes now, not one.

TaraC

could u email me on some material on those letters please aswell-tarac1987@hotmail.com

Africa

I put some notes up in the thread titles German Letters

7thSeal

Sound by
Much appreciated