The Orals

cson

Got the guts of only 6 weeks before they start (13 to the actual leaving), so anyone else feel wholly unprepared for them? I hoping to get it all together in the next 6 weeks for them, pull the finger out so to speak and start working

md99

Can't wait for French... don't care about Irish, should breeze it tho as it's O/L, but moreso I can't wait to have them both finished... Man what a load off that will be.

Nehpets

I'm ready enough for them. Room for a lot of improvement still though.

Steve01

I'm not panicing. I've had practice orals with my French and Irish teachers (both HL) and they've went fine. Only thing that could easily destroy me on the day is nerves but there's not much I can do about that. Also, there's a strong possibility that my music practical will be on the same day as one of the orals. I'm hoping that situation can be avoided...

Jay112

Havent been knuckling down on the orals just yet! had a few Practice runs with french! our irish teacher is waiting till closer till the dates to do a practice 1 one 1

Raphael

Orals aren't ordinary or higher level. The examiner doesn't know your level, they just mark you and the weighting is based on your level.

Best advice I can give for orals is what I did in mine - crack a joke. Try to make him laugh, it shows that you have confidence with the language. Even if you don't.

Steve01

Best advice I can give for orals is what I did in mine - crack a joke.

Preferably if the examiner is an old woman. Say something sexist and insanely offensive, she'll love you then

Mackleton

Best advice I can give for orals is what I did in mine - crack a joke. Try to make him laugh, it shows that you have confidence with the language. Even if you don't.[/QUOTE]

On that note anyone around who has done the oral last year ie. repeating that got a high mark in it. Any tips or stand out qualities in your oral?

Guinea

Eh yeah I'm just biding my time til my oral, have my mock French one tomorrow.

Just a question about the document: are there any restrictions to it, ie is it acceptable to bring in a number of photos glued to one sheet as opposed to only one photo?

Any help is appreciated. A link to an official website with any regulations would be most excellent.

yurmothrintites

Im doing a bit of french and irish each day, it also helps that my dad teaches those subjects so i've a constant grind at home!:) I'm doing the Irish Rugby team in croke park for my document, I wanted to do gaelic but its overdone.

JC 2K3

Up until I did my French written mock last Wednesday I couldn't have been less bothered with French personally. However I felt I did quite well in the written exam and am thinking that I might be able to pull off a good grade in French if I make a small bit of effort. However, I have a crap teacher that is simply a joke. It makes classes fun for me cos I don't care about French, but I'm thinking now, I could do well if I tried....

Got 60% in my last oral exam(was at Xmas and despite us not knowing at the time it's getting counted as our mock). I could get better by volunteering to speak and asking questions in class.....

....nah, not bothered.


I'm in an All Irish school so Irish oral is grand.

Spank

Getting nervous about them, I'm not a confident speaker of foreign languages. Doubt French will be as bad as Irish, seems less detailed or so. Mock French on Thursday, couldn't be less prepared.

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Just keep your cool, try not to get too nervous, try building up conversational skills as opposed to learning off big blocks of stuff

Lia_lia

French will be fine because I lived there for 3 years and I'm practically fluent...so that helps. Although I do feck all in class.

We have done nothing useful to us in Irish class. The teacher just puts us into pairs and makes us speak to each other in Irish at the end of each class. Of course most of speak in english about what we are doing next Saturday night :rolleyes: That teacher is such a bloody eejit.
I am doing pass though...

Raphael

....

"The teacher tries to make us practice irish for our oral, but we don't. God isn't he thick."

Or am I missing something?

cson

Ah yes the irony of it all. I'm not exactly sure thats what she meant raphael but all the same I had a chuckle at it.

The teacher is an eejit for trying to do his/her job? Perhaps it would be in your best interests to actually practise speaking gaeilge to each other. But i'm not going to get into the "your only fooling yourself" argument. :rolleyes:

Anyway on the note of cracking a joke to an examiner..... anyone got any jokes as gaeilge or en francais?

ethernet

Any idea how many sentences you should be giving for each illustration in the picture sequences for German?

Corruptedmorals

Irish is fine. June need to expand on what I'd say, and revise the modh coinniolach for those horrible 'If you were blah, what would you change?' questions.

French-panicking.

OctavarIan

ethernet wrote:

Any idea how many sentences you should be giving for each illustration in the picture sequences for German?

Just talk, don't sit there counting your sentences or you'll make mistakes, sound like a robot and the examiner will mark you harder.

weluvujoe

my irish class has not even started oral work yet, all we have done is ths sliochts, and quiet badly at that.

NADA

ethernet wrote:

Any idea how many sentences you should be giving for each illustration in the picture sequences for German?

1-3! no more required!

Peter Collins

In my oral Irish exam, the examiner welcomed me into the room by saying "Fáilte romhat", to which I replied "Fáilte romhat"......

Still got a B2

Think she may have fancied me :cool:

adamcp

I'm fine with french orals, but Irish is a different story for me, by the way how many people do the document thing with french?

Corruptedmorals

Just about anybody with sense. Blab on about it and the examiner won't have time to ask you questions about the upcoming french elections...

Limerick Dude

Peter Collins wrote:

In my oral Irish exam, the examiner welcomed me into the room by saying "Fáilte romhat", to which I replied "Fáilte romhat"......

Still got a B2

Think she may have fancied me :cool:

Legend. :cool:

ethernet

NADA wrote:

1-3! no more required!

That's what I heard but wasn't sure. We were told that people were giving far too much on each picture and that less is now expected. Cheers.

Gossip_girl

Just finished a french mock one and i think it went okay but i'm so screwed for irish tomorrow!

I had the examiner laughing a good bit so hopefully thats a good sign?

Did get a nasty question about racisim among the youth of today in ireland though!

Hope tomorrow goes okay!

FergusConcannon

oh irish orals will be a massacre(i.e. just like the mocks were ). French mocks were a doddle. Looking foward to real thing

Rozabeez

Irish is fine, little worried about French!

Steve01

I'm fairly okay for both Irish and French so long as nerves don't kill me or the examiner doesn't ask some horrible questions.

eZe^

Anyone got any good advice for a french document? I was thinking about a picture of a nuclear power plant, that way you can talk about the advantages, disadvantages and then go on about conventional pollution, blah, blah, blah.

evee_03

JC 2K3 wrote:

However, I have a crap teacher that is simply a joke. It makes classes fun for me cos I don't care about French

I know the feeling. Our teacher is bad as well!! God help us!!:(

ninebeanrows

I have my mock oral tomorrow and im pooing myself..

I just know that when she asks me a question, i'll be like........ ehhhh je ne comprend pas......:D

And if i think i know something i'll be like....... Je pense que..... ehhhh je ne sais pas!!!