How was your oral? :D

dip

Have any of you had your French yet?

Had mine today and it wasn't at all like I'd expected!

She asked barely anything on all the more difficult/interesting questions I'd prepared on drugs, alcohol, politics, education system etc. I only just managed to force her to ask me about obesity and anorexia, and most of the time was spent on school/family/local area/hobbies. Bit of a surprise as I'd prepared questions on a lot of topical and obscure issues.
All the other 6th years are the same, everyone kinda surprised at not being asked the harder stuff.

How was it for you? What was your examiner like?

Imallin9989

I had my irish orals today went really well ....


he asked me where i lived and then he asked me bout drugs environment goerge bush bertie ahern alchol the north and what i wanted to do next year..... went really well:D:D:D

blue-army

Imallin9989 wrote: »

I had my irish orals today went really well ....


he asked me where i lived and then he asked me bout drugs environment goerge bush bertie ahern alchol the north and what i wanted to do next year..... went really well:D:D:D

was that honours?

titan18

You seem to have got a difficult one,the hardest thing anybody from my class got asked was social problems in the country.We've learned off pages of notes on the north,bertie ahern,us electons,iraq and tibet and nothing got asked on them

x_Ashy_x

had my irish today...had loadsa stuff prepared n got asked bout none of it! really really simple stuff wasnt even asked anything in the m.c.! everyone came out shocked bout how easy it was...was kinda disappointed tho cuz didnt get much of a chance t show off my irish at all

Fuascailt

I did Irish today too. 3% of my leaving done, wooo. Went pretty well, i felt the same, i didnt get to use everything i knew, but there was no silence anyway, i just kept talking. He was lovely, kind of hot as well, i wish he was my actual teacher.

And hey, all that stuff everyone had learned off will help for the essays.

blue-army

Does anyone know how to say,

"At the end of the day"

"All in all"

"Thats all" as gaeilge?

Thanks

Diarmsquid

blue-army wrote: »

Does anyone know how to say,

"At the end of the day"

"All in all"

"Thats all" as gaeilge?

Thanks

Ag deireadh an lae

Ar an iomlán (On the whole, pretty much the same thing)

Sin é go léir

My Irish went great. She told me I was go hiontach afterwards.
I messed up once tho (well once that I know of now). She asked me if I ever fell while cycling, and I said "Thit mé uair amahin. Bhí oighean are an bothair"

Oighean is oven.

Yuugib

Did my russian today aww went quite good .. until she asked me about what is russian culture known for.. that kind puzzled me for a while there had a blank moment.. could only think of couple of classics argh..

Overheal

Communism?

Seriously though; I can't think of any. But thats from decades of American blacklisting.

tex mexx

i have my Irish tomorrow,not looking forward to it. it confuses me how people didn't get their answers out though. im not very good at irish at all, but i know how to "lure" the examiner into asking the questions i want. if only i had some good answers i could lure her towards....:o

Yuugib

i wouldnt say that she would of been to happy to hear about thath lolz
opera and balle.. argh.. why why havnt i shown interest in those areas

daisy123

Yuugib wrote: »

Did my russian today aww went quite good .. until she asked me about what is russian culture known for.. that kind puzzled me for a while there had a blank moment.. could only think of couple of classics argh..

Vodka???? Kind of like the Irish and Guinness!!!

Parsley

I've my Irish oral in about half an hour!

meeka

Ugh, I had my French oral a couple of hours ago, it didn't go half as well as I had hoped.

The examiner didn't do the whole "presentez-vous" thing, or really let me say much at all, she just kept asking me questions. Really random questions that I would never have thought of beforehand, too ... So pretty much, I made up most of what I was saying on the spot, and it was probably all wrong...

Bleh. Hopefully I did better than I thought, but I kinda doubt it.

Konata

I had my French Oral yesterday. It went okish I think. She let me talk for most of it but I got quite confused when she asked me how do I come to school...I didn't really know what she was saying but I understood eventually and said "Je vais á l'école en autobus" but then she just kept looking at me and I was like, what the hell?? What else can I say?? I started talking about what I do when I arrive at school but she stopped me then...

Oh and she also asked me about my past times and I said music and we chatted about that for awhile. Then she asked me did I like television and since I didn't have anything prepared on that I just said it doesn't interest me. So then she asked me about the cinema and I was like feck, I can't say that doesn't interest me again so I managed one sentence and then kinda stopped and just said "Je suis désolée!" Ugh....


The rest of it was ok though I think. I didn't get asked anything about problems etc. I was just kind of annoyed about the television/cinema thing cause I was kinda under the impression that you prepare 2 past times (mine were sport and music) and you just chat about those...I don't know. I guess I should have just said that I was interested in sport instead of the cinema but I didn't think of that at the time. =/ I'm so going to beat myself up over this.




Anyway hopefully Irish will be better next week!

thatone!

My oral was fine, quite happy to be honest. I got in all about problems in my area and that took up a while, but i have irish next week and am not prepared at all

....shell....

my oral couldnt have gone worse!!i was first in after lunch and she started the tape and just as i went to read the sliocht my phone rang..it was on loud so instead of apologisin in irish i just went ooo ****! and turned it off..it threw me off and i moght as well have just got up and left i done so bad!!at one stage i actually whispered to her 'how do you say green?'....all in all i think i failed with flying colours

BoozyBabe

....shell.... wrote: »

my oral couldnt have gone worse!!i was first in after lunch and she started the tape and just as i went to read the sliocht my phone rang..it was on loud so instead of apologisin in irish i just went ooo ****! and turned it off..it threw me off and i moght as well have just got up and left i done so bad!!at one stage i actually whispered to her 'how do you say green?'....all in all i think i failed with flying colours

Oh, God love you!!!
I don't mean to laugh, but
(Sorry!)

(Hopefully you're pleasantly surprised in August)

teckoda

My Irish oral wasn't too bad. Had a bit of a laugh with the examiner in the end.
I wrote up a post on it here

brownboots

does sanyone have a guy named Taigh??
ive mine friday im so nervous about it.
some people are sayin i dont need to know all bout politics and affairs and other people are sayin its important!!
:eek:

CherrySugarPlum

I have my french oral today and i still have half the book to learn!! :eek:

KeyLimePie

oh my lord
i almost threw up going right in before it
but i talked about gaeltachts, des bishop, paisean faisean and got asked about the biggest problem in youth today and i was like oh ya it's alcohol cause bla bla bla and then he was like why and i blanked and said....ceapaim go bhfuil leadranach
and then after then it was dooowwn hill :P
oh well it's ordinary level anyway!

french on tuesday

titan18

Mine was ok,got asked easy stuff,as did my whole class,so its not that i did bad(hopefully),hardest thing i got asked was on problems in town on a saturday night.It was too easy.

alan4cult

Had my German Oral yesterday. It went pretty well. For the picture i got "Handy in der Schule verboten" and for the rollplay I got "Im Restaurant". The general conversation was great. I just kept talking. She didn't ask me anything in the past tense so I kind of had to bring it in myself. The examiner was really nice. Just make sure if you are doing German to talk about as much as you can because there is only 5 minutes of general converstaion. Even though you won't lose marks for not mentioning everything, it's worth your while to get everything in even if its not directly related but try to keep somewhat to the point or he/she will interrupt you.

mahamageehad

Yuugib wrote: »

Did my russian today aww went quite good .. until she asked me about what is russian culture known for.. that kind puzzled me for a while there had a blank moment.. could only think of couple of classics argh..

Russian culture is known for vodka and russian roulette!!!:)

Rich89

Had my irish oral today, went grand. Except I used french once or twice but other than that it went fine! Some advice, avoid French class the day of your oral! Or Irish, in the case of a French/German oral.

mahamageehad

Had my irish oral on tuesday...think it went well-ish. i read my sliocht (10) really well so was happy with that. Did the usual me, family town stuff.

Then she asked what i do 4 lunch every day n i said i got 2 the shop which lead to a discussion on healthy eating...eek!! :eek: Then out of the blu she asked me what i thought of the current health system...!! And what would i change if i was minister for health. Den she asked did i think irish was dying out and are people like des bishop making a mock of the language or helping it. Then i got asked about the drugs problem, the alcohol problem and why these were problems and who was to blame. Then she asked about foreigners in the town and whether or not they should get the same benefits as irish people. Also she asked y do young people feel under pressure today. o and finally about the internet, bebo and the dangers for young people online.

I didnt hav any of these prepared really, we did bertie, the education system and tibet. is it usual for this many topics to come up in one oral and is it a good or a bad thing??

Ino112

I have my french oral on Friday (Eek) and irish on Tuesday of next week. Hope I do as well as you all have!

titan18

mahamageehad wrote: »

Had my irish oral on tuesday...think it went well-ish. i read my sliocht (10) really well so was happy with that. Did the usual me, family town stuff.

Then she asked what i do 4 lunch every day n i said i got 2 the shop which lead to a discussion on healthy eating...eek!! :eek: Then out of the blu she asked me what i thought of the current health system...!! And what would i change if i was minister for health. Den she asked did i think irish was dying out and are people like des bishop making a mock of the language or helping it. Then i got asked about the drugs problem, the alcohol problem and why these were problems and who was to blame. Then she asked about foreigners in the town and whether or not they should get the same benefits as irish people. Also she asked y do young people feel under pressure today. o and finally about the internet, bebo and the dangers for young people online.

I didnt hav any of these prepared really, we did bertie, the education system and tibet. is it usual for this many topics to come up in one oral and is it a good or a bad thing??

I'm guessing you did very well if you got asked on all of that,and I'm thinking you're fluent or close to it.You got a nightmare oral though and I think its normal for that to happen as my teacher every one of those topics with us,and I actually wish I got that oral and not the easy one I got

Soby

just had mine few mins ago..was grand.no problems..nothing hard..Sure she even asked me to describe school 3 times!!!!!!!!!!!memory like a fish

The Walsho

Had my french oral today, it went fairly well. Got asked about the Celtic Tiger, social problems, irish language, obesity, technology (and bebo) along with some of the usual stuff.

Peleus

just had mine there a couple of hours ago. It was grand. I'd say i got a B3/C1. I definately got full marks in my sloicht and i'd say i got like 60% of the rest of the marks. I had a lovely celebratory smoke in the jacks afterwards :P

PurpleFistMixer

Had my French today... was alright, hadn't exactly prepared anything in specific. She asked pretty simple things.. about school and hobbies and what I did last summer and what I want to do in university and that stuff. I guess the most difficult thing I was asked was if Irish courses in the gaeltacht are a good thing...

Irish on Monday now, should be much better, I hope... Irish is much easier to speak than French.

philologos

alan4cult wrote: »

Had my German Oral yesterday. It went pretty well. For the picture i got "Handy in der Schule verboten" and for the rollplay I got "Im Restaurant". The general conversation was great. I just kept talking. She didn't ask me anything in the past tense so I kind of had to bring it in myself. The examiner was really nice. Just make sure if you are doing German to talk about as much as you can because there is only 5 minutes of general converstaion. Even though you won't lose marks for not mentioning everything, it's worth your while to get everything in even if its not directly related but try to keep somewhat to the point or he/she will interrupt you.

I got Nachtliche Ruhestorung, and Interview fur die Schulerzeitung.

alan4cult

Jakkass wrote: »

I got Nachtliche Ruhestorung, and Interview fur die Schulerzeitung.

How did you do in the general converstation? That Interview is a mouthful its so long. You have to admit though that the german oral is way easier than french! If you learn the roleplays and the pictures well you have 55-60% before you even go in!

philologos

The general conversation was short, and she moved around to a lot of different questions in a short period, so I couldn't just have said what I learned off which is fair enough. I got asked about my family, how I get on with my sisters, my subjects in school, german class, my film (Untergang), future plans after the LC, and my experience in German speaking areas (I used Vienna for this).

I had the Interview fur die Schulerzeitung 4 times, from my orals in 5th year to my real one. I was well pleased. Talk about luck!

She asked me about Alcohol in Ireland and teenagers for the Opinion on Issue in the picture sequence.

kwestfan08

meeka wrote: »

Ugh, I had my French oral a couple of hours ago, it didn't go half as well as I had hoped.

The examiner didn't do the whole "presentez-vous" thing, or really let me say much at all, she just kept asking me questions. Really random questions that I would never have thought of beforehand, too ... So pretty much, I made up most of what I was saying on the spot, and it was probably all wrong...

Bleh. Hopefully I did better than I thought, but I kinda doubt it.

My french oral went exactly the same way as well. If i got a C i'd be over the moon

Ino112

My french oral went brilliant. Everything I got asked (drug problems, the job of teaching etc.) was asnwered to the near best of my ability.

It turns out, those who didn't bring in a document were actually far more happy with their orals than those who did decide to bring one in.

oleary91

had my Irish oral yesterday...was easy:)asked me school rules,what time school starts and finishes,do i like the town,do i like kerry,favourite band,music,television,do i have alot of money in my bank lol,mobile phones,what i do at work,where i bought my holiday ticket,do i watch the champions league,do i go to the beach and some other things i cant remember...oh and i had sliocht 4

conzy

Had Irish today, went extremely well, he only asked maybe 3 or 4 questions, the rest we were just chatting I'm guessing high 90s (Irish School )

Got Sliocht 9

emilyc

Does the German oral go on for 15 minutes, like the Irish, or is it longer?

Imallin9989

conzymaher wrote: »

Had Irish today, went extremely well, he only asked maybe 3 or 4 questions, the rest we were just chatting I'm guessing high 90s (Irish School )

Got Sliocht 9

bit smug .... no???:mad::mad::pac::eek::o:rolleyes::):cool::D;):p

gaybitch

Ughhhh! I had hoped my Irish oral would go really well cos I like speaking Irish and I've been to the Gaeltacht a good few years etc, but it didn't go that well at all!

I read the sliocht about Bidi Early, no 5 I think, and then my first question after it - straightaway - was about fairies, Irish people's belief in fairy stories, Fionna Mac Comhaill, leprechaun etc etc. Because the sliocht mentions fairies! It threw me a bit I have to say.

When I came out I just felt like I'd messed it up, and that I'd love to go back in and do it again because I feel like I should have showed off more.







Hopefully French will be better!

Jayeire

Had my irish oral on wednesday.. soo sooo happy with it. Got sliocht 1!! Easiest of the lot I think...
I had an inspector sitting in on my exam aswell.
I got social problem Qs : alcohol, drugs, got asked about Bertie, Mary Harney , education system, health system, elections in america .... Both said I was fluent... presume that means I got on quite well

German oral is designed to last roughly 20 minutes.
It is the longest of the orals

Doppler

I did my Irish oral Thursday. I was great. Full marks!! We had a really nice woman. She more or less let us talk about whatever we wanted, so I spent over 10 minutes talking about politics! lol

glenn3ie

My French was a bit of a disaster.

Not only did she not ask me any of the obscure topics (i.e. drugs, alcohol, global warming, pollution etc) that I had prepared there was also an inspector sitting in on my oral. I found it to be very off putting having someone sitting over my shoulder. Even though he was inspecting the examiner it was still off putting for me. It was like I was trying to impress the examiner and the examiner was trying to impress the inspector... Vicious triangle if you ask me

Gotta move on to Irish amarach now so we'll see what happens!

conzy

Imallin9989 wrote: »

bit smug .... no???:mad::mad::pac::eek::o:rolleyes::):cool::D;):p

Oh dont worry, Im expecting low 20s in French

anie_bawny

:rolleyes: this will make you feel better....i went into my irish oral last tuesday and the examiner sad Cad as duit.
me most educated reply was...taim go maith agus tusa.
And yes,,,,somehow i am doing honours!it was the nerves,,i swear!ahem:eek:

ccass1502

i'm depressed. our teacher has not half prepared us for the oral (irish). i could not cope if i was asked about the North or George Bush. Oral tomorrow...aaaggghhhh:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

donmeister

lovely to hear yer all doing so well!lol!i had my french oral last tuesday,went great,at least i thought it did haha,got asked easy q's family,myself,school,next summer,yano all the usual yadayada

irish 2moro at 10',im bricking it!didnt do ne study for it as im not countin it,but im just thinkin about the awkward silences!im f'''kd any tips?lol