French (h) - the aftermath

Attractive Nun

So how did everyone do? I was surprised at how well mine went.

The comprehensions I thought were tough enough, particularly the first one, but I think I did fairly well with them. The 'personnes agèes' essay suited me down to the ground and I got a good 130 words out of it. Then I did the diary entry and the world cup one, which both went pretty well. Expected to have loads of time left over at the end, but I went so slowly that things just worked out perfectly.

The listening wasn't as fantastic, but considering how crap I usually am at them it was alright, and certainly easier than many a listening I have done in the past. With the exception of the final section, I think I put a plausible answer down for everything.

Was hoping for a B, and I'd be disappointed if that wasn't a B1, maybe even verging on A2 territory!

Funkstard

Lovely paper, just didn't do particularly well. That's it basically.

MB44

i didnt like the paper at all. The second comprehension made no sense. the written pieces went ok and the tape was a bit of a disaster. will be happy with a c3 . My oral will bring up the grade( fingers crossed)

JCB

It was tough enough, but the written section turned out to be class. I did the old people essay, email and holiday question. Comprehensions were tough. What the hell was the answer to the tick the box question comp 1. the woman was afraid, proud, board or terrified Which one was it? The lawyer comp was easier.
The tape was hard enough. What was the comedian afraid of? all I could make out was that he was afraid of fear itself:rolleyes: Also the final part of the tape was hard - the sport and country. I said handball and Croatia. Hope they're right!

OctavarIan

JCB wrote:

What the hell was the answer to the tick the box question comp 1. the woman was afraid, proud, board or terrified Which one was it?

B, I'm pretty sure. I actually found the first comp far easier than the second one!

[edit] Right, the rest of it... The writing wasn't too hot, neither was the listening. Ah well, c'est la vie. No wait, I don't have to speak french anymore. Sweet.

Faerie

I thought it was ok. The comprehensions were grand, but I was a bit disappointed with written part. We prepared loads of really abstract stuff and it didn't come up! I did the thing about scandalous newspapers and sort of swung it around to the charicatures of Muhammad in the paper last year! I also did the email....there's no real structure to that, is there? I just wrote a, de and sujet and then the layout of an informal letter.
The tape was alright...the last bits were a bit weird though! I said the kid fell out of a tree! But now I think he was hit by lightning!

fatal

i thought it was an ok paper...the 2nd comprehension was a bit gay but there usually always is one...the listening and written were piss

Attractive Nun

I said she was afraid, or worried I think it was, although yeah I dunno about that. She definitely said she wasn't shocked, bored doesn't seem to make sense and proud? Heroin was mentioned, so worried seemed the best choice.

Was the comedian was afraid of losing contact with his family or something?

Croatia is correct and I'm fairly sure handball is too, although I said water polo *smacks head*

Zapp Brannigan

Grand paper.
Comprehensions were fine, I've definitely seen harder ones asked.
Written pieces, managed over a 100 words on each. Though usually writing is my weaker point in French.
Tape was grand. A few dodgy bits, like some of Section II and Section IV.

I'd be fairly confident of a good C mark, if not a B.

Was it really Croatia in Section V? Why did they mention Spain then?

Faerie

Slurms wrote:

Grand paper.
Comprehensions were fine, I've definitely seen harder ones asked.
Written pieces, managed over a 100 words on each. Though usually writing is my weaker point in French.
Tape was grand. A few dodgy bits, like some of Section II and Section IV.

I'd be fairly confident of a good C mark, if not a B.

Was it really Croatia in Section V? Why did they mention Spain then?

They beat Spain in the final. The question was about the semi-final.

Feral Mutant

I thought the comedian was afraid of his career ending and losing all his money.

I have to point this out. In section 2 of the second text there was a line
"Eh bien, tu as ete servi!"
I know I took it horribly out of context but I still think it's funny that an extract from a french novel used in a state exam has the words "You got served!" in it.

For question 1, I made up a story about a friend helping me. I said we were playing paintball in a forest when a crazy guy with a machine gun came out and tried to kill us. We ran off and my friend saved me by going in the opposite direction and drawing him away from me. At the end I put (in french) "I learned something that day, I don't have to be faster than a bullet, I just have to be faster than my friend".

whassupp2

I thought 1st comp was much easier than second. I said Marie was the more powerful charcter. Did personne agees. thought it was easy enough. Did the diary entry but didnt realise that you were supposed to hate the penpal guy. Then the holiday one and as an extra the world cup one. Fairly handy overall except my grammer was brutal. seriosly it was very bad.:o

Attractive Nun

I thought the comedian was afraid of his career ending and losing all his money.

Yeah I actually heard something like that too, seemed a bit of a stupid thing to be afraid of though.

whassupp2

Attractive Nun wrote:

Yeah I actually heard something like that too, seemed a bit of a stupid thing to be afraid of though.

I said afraid his career would end

piggy

Not what i was expectin at all. The comps were quite tough but the written section was lovely,very easy to write about. tape could of been worse, last section was tricky though. can't believe its acutally over.

fatal

with the sheer number of people that got little or NOTHING for the last section of the tape I think they will definiley do something about it

Attractive Nun

For the record, was it was handball, Croatia, hit by lightning and something else in that last section? I got Croatia.

Zapp Brannigan

whassupp2 wrote:

I said afraid his career would end

Yup thats what I said. He was afraid his career would end prematurely.

Last section was some guys who stole a bank card and got caught trying to withdraw money, I think.

Funkstard

Lightning? I thought I heard 'incendie' as the very first word. Oh well.

Setun

Found it reasonable, the written comps were fairly tricky alright but not too bad, I think I did fine overall. The opinion q's were unusual but manageable, I did the email, the opinion q about old people, and the sports q. Happy enough.

casanova_kid

I twas a decent enough paper, comprehensions were easy to understand, though the questions were tricky. Opinion questions were fine to write about but hard to get really stuck into. The journal intime was a treat.

Attractive Nun

Funkstard wrote:

Lightning? I thought I heard 'incendie' as the very first word. Oh well.

'frappé' was in there definitely, and 'hit by lightning' was one of the ordinary level answers. Could be wrong though. I didn't get it either.

Faerie

Attractive Nun wrote:

'frappé' was in there definitely, and 'hit by lightning' was one of the ordinary level answers. Could be wrong though. I didn't get it either.

It's right. I didn't get it but it's the only option that makes sense from the ones in the ordinary paper.

Rockerette

well, je suck at french, but it was doable definitely

the 1st comp was ok, 2nd one had be a tad lost..


in the listening, what was teh answer to the question about languages, about the people in the Pacific?!
my answer?!
"they could communicate with the fish..."


somehow, i THINK it might be wrong

casanova_kid

Rockerette wrote:

well, je suck at french, but it was doable definitely

the 1st comp was ok, 2nd one had be a tad lost..


in the listening, what was teh answer to the question about languages, about the people in the Pacific?!
my answer?!
"they could communicate with the fish..."


somehow, i THINK it might be wrong

I said they can talk to fish, sounded bizarre then, sounds even bizarrer now.

nedward

I heard fifty and fish,and said they had 50 words for fish?

River Allow

I heard fish too but I wrote down something completely different...!

I didn't like the tape at all, neither did anyone in my class, they will mark it easier though cos I mean everyone is saying it's hard! The written was grand.. My grammer was atrocious though and I didn't have time to look back over it at all! My oral went really well though so Id be hoping for a high enough B!

JCB

Attractive Nun wrote:

For the record, was it was handball, Croatia, hit by lightning and something else in that last section? I got Croatia.

HANDBALL!!!!!!! YES! YES! YES! YES! -watching the oymplics pays off after all!
Struck by lightning?!? Oh well - I also said he fell out of a tree!

nedward

What was up with the tape about the language "textpert"? I thought that was very difficult

JCB

SI - on the comedian I thought was a hard enough start
S2 - can't remember but it was sound enough neway
S3 - on the languages = HARD
S4 - Woman parlaimentarian was sound enough
S5 - news items were hard enough but I got three right YAH!

Raphael

I thought that was an alright paper, I did the old people, the holiday and the World Cup slogan thing. Tape was nice enough, got none of section 5 though

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Attractive Nun wrote:

The listening wasn't as fantastic, but considering how crap I usually am at them it was alright, and certainly easier than many a listening I have done in the past. With the exception of the final section, I think I put a plausible answer down for everything.

Same here, last section was a killer, by that stage id kinda stopped caring though

The thing about the fish was that the natives have hundreds of names for them.

The sport was handball
The young one got injured because he got struck by lightning and fell out of a tree.

was flying until i got to my final written piece.

Found the comprehensions no more difficult than normal, but still took my time getting through them. Wrote an excellent piece on the Older Generation and then the Diary entry.

and then it got bad...

Completely misunderstood the World Cup question, and wrote how sport was important to us in todays society...

Then made a bags of the Listening...

Ah well, just have to make up for it somewhere else...

PrettyInPunk

yeh i found comp 2 sooooo hard but i wrote marie was stronger character..

like you i ballsed up the diary entry i wrote that she liked her not that she DIS LIKED HER!!!!!!!!!!!:(:(

Shrimp

Tricky paper.. really will sort the passes form the honours..

blah blah blah

JCB wrote:

HANDBALL!!!!!!! YES! YES! YES! YES! -watching the oymplics pays off after all!
Struck by lightning?!? Oh well - I also said he fell out of a tree!

hee hee i also said he fell out of a tree, i just inserted words that i heard into things i didnt know....it makes things a lot more interesting:D

whassupp2

I heard frapper and wrote he got hit so might get a mark for that if the marking scheme is nice.

shane0312

Raphael wrote:

I thought that was an alright paper, I did the old people, the holiday and the World Cup slogan thing. Tape was nice enough, got none of section 5 though

1: Handball
Croatia

2:struck by lightning

3:Caught trying to take money out with stolen card.

Rockerette

shane0312 wrote:

1: Handball
Croatia

2:struck by lightning

3:Caught trying to take money out with stolen card.

if thats the case, i got a wondeful big fat 0 for that section :cool:










what was the exact meaning of the World Cup slogan thingy??

Gazza22

The ecrit went horribly wrong at the end for me when i ran out of time, and got 4 lines of pure nonsense down for the changing holiday thing over time before the examiner took my paper....

Listening went ok, comps wern't as easy as usual and my oral went very well so i am hoping for a C in this, i'm normally good at french but i don't know what went wrong today.... :rolleyes:

happydance

I was happy enough. I got an ok grasp of the first comp and I liked the 2nd on. ended up doing the world cup, holidays and the old people essays. they were ok. few grammer mistakes and i certainly didn't show much knowledge of complicated french but all in all ok.

i quite liked the listening. Got the Croatia!! Wasn't to fond of the last section but I like the others! I can't believe it's all over!

Setun

shane0312 wrote:

1: Handball
Croatia

2:struck by lightning

3:Caught trying to take money out with stolen card.

My Answers:
1: Curling
b) Spain

2. Hit by Car

3. Stealing money from ATM's with stolen ATM card.

Damn. Apart from 3.

OctavarIan

Daddio wrote:

My Answers:
1: Curling
b) Spain

2. Hit by Car

3. Stealing money from ATM's with stolen ATM card.

Damn. Apart from 3.

Mine:
1: (a) basketball
(b) spain
2: he fell
3: they stole a lot of money

...ftw

Raphael

Mine:
1. (a)
(b)
2.
3. Stealing Money

A1 territory fo sho

deisedolly

Comprehensions were terrible! Just realised when they asked for a word in the conditional I wrote down 'était', Oh what an idiot I am!

Did the qs on the old people, the journal and the holiday thing, I used really simple french but hopefully it will get me a C!

For the last part of the tape I said:
1.a baseball
b Spain

2. fell out of a tree

3. they stole money

Wasn't a total disaster, wasn't great either... so it was what I expected really!

blah blah blah

Raphael wrote:

Mine:
1. (a)
(b)
2.
3. Stealing Money

A1 territory fo sho

wow thats exactly what i had!!! :eek:

Ballerina

oops im just after realising i think i got the last question in the second comp really wrong!i said it was the lad who was the "rebel" and that he encouraged HER to go to cafe and therefore said that he was stronger!!!this is completely wrong yea??thats so annoying cos i think i did quite well in the rest of it and this will probably bring me down...:(

abercrombie

LOVED the 2nd comprehension...basically because i've read the book before left an hour early..i thought i'd be gone before but i kept thinking of interesting little phrases to stick here and there

JCB

abercrombie wrote:

LOVED the 2nd comprehension...basically because i've read the book before left an hour early..i thought i'd be gone before but i kept thinking of interesting little phrases to stick here and there

Hi aber, Did you get the right answers for the MCQ on Q1/Q2? I just couldn't figure them out

whassupp2

Anybody who said Spain were wrong. Croatia is the answer