French Essay Predictions

KeyLimePie

Right here are mine/my teachers/my friends best french essay predictions

Pollution - it's effects and what's to be done
Polictics - does it interest you/the youth, is it important
Olympics - use of drugs in the olypmics
Drugs - it's use in sport
Obesity - it's implications, what's to be done
Alcohol - always so general so who knows

As for the comprehensions, selogene royal, that french mime who died, the smoking ban, sarkozy, ediath pintoff....!! anything really

So those are mine kinda:P

What're yours?

SRFC90

Pretty much what ya have there I'm gonna have a look at apart from politics... no notes on that!:eek:

Oh, and the environment (pollution etc.)

lovechem

The Importance of Language: Its like national year of languages so maybe something about that.

AIDS: Possibility? Maybe a the journalistic passage will be about this.

Secularism: In french schools v.topical, the wearing of religious symbols.

Deffo hoping for les JO, le dopage, and l'environnement.

KeyLimePie

SRFC90 wrote: »

Pretty much what ya have there I'm gonna have a look at apart from politics... no notes on that!:eek:

Oh, and the environment (pollution etc.)

j'ai parle avec un ami qui me dit que selon lui, voter servait a rien - i was speaking with a freind recently who told that voting serves nothing

voter est un droit - voting is a right

c'est aussi un devoir du tout citoyen - it's also a right of every citizen

then go on to say that u voted in the elections last year or you'll vote for the lisbon treaty, and don't take those down blindsighted if anyone does they might be spelt wrong

Ah, french is too easy.

eoins2345

the day of the french exam is the day the ice age ended so id prepare phrases on that

Heinrich

KeyLimePie wrote: »

j'ai parle avec un ami qui me dit que selon lui, voter servait a rien - i was speaking with a freind recently who told that voting serves nothing

voter est un droit - voting is a right

c'est aussi un devoir du tout citoyen - it's also a right of every citizen

then go on to say that u voted in the elections last year or you'll vote for the lisbon treaty, and don't take those down blindsighted if anyone does they might be spelt wrong

Un devoir is a DUTY!

Sert a rien - worth nothing

Spelt wrong or wrongly spelt?

KeyLimePie

Heinrich wrote: »

Un devoir is a DUTY!

Sert a rien - worth nothing

Spelt wrong or wrongly spelt?

i realise that devoir means a duty:)it was a typo mistake on my part

and no i'm right on that bit:P

starkinter

« sert à rien » actually. :pac:

bcat

starkinter wrote: »

« sert à rien » actually. :pac:

shouldn't there be a "ne" in front of sert????????

bcat

KeyLimePie wrote: »

Right here are mine/my teachers/my friends best french essay predictions

Pollution - it's effects and what's to be done
Polictics - does it interest you/the youth, is it important
Olympics - use of drugs in the olypmics
Drugs - it's use in sport
Obesity - it's implications, what's to be done
Alcohol - always so general so who knows

As for the comprehensions, selogene royal, that french mime who died, the smoking ban, sarkozy, ediath pintoff....!! anything really

So those are mine kinda:P

What're yours?

Sorry to be a pedant, but "its" in the case of your post does not contain an apostrophe... "It is" - shortened to "it's" contains an apostrophe.

Twee.

It's so hard to predict. I swear they just draw them from a French themed hat :rolleyes:

lovechem

God your all so b**chy about it! LOVE THE LANGUAGE :D Don't hate ganstahsssssssss.

I got an A2 in my pre's but I'm terrified I'm gonna go down in the real thing :eek:

boobookitty

So I suppose it is best to just use general/filler phrases with correct french?

How do you say?

___ is very addicting and corrupts people's minds
(drugs, computer games, food, money, drink, even sport)

See what I mean?

What else can be said?

lovechem wrote:

What she/he said

That is why my dear, I only got a C3. I can only (hopefully) improve! (unless the tape sucks)

Twee.

lovechem wrote: »

God your all so b**chy about it! LOVE THE LANGUAGE :D Don't hate ganstahsssssssss.

I got an A2 in my pre's but I'm terrified I'm gonna go down in the real thing :eek:

You have the oral and aural, you'll be grand! I'm hoping to pull my grade up. I think I got a C2. I know I did better in my French oral than my OL Irish one.

starkinter

bcat wrote: »

shouldn't there be a "ne" in front of sert????????

Yeah, there should.

prawn

This year is the European year of intercultural dialogue promoting language and you could get in diversity tolerance racism in Ireland etc check out the european commission website @ http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu/ you can change it into french too (top right hand corner) then on the left hand navigational thing click the "A propos de l'annee europeene" gives a good paragraph..

so they could get a good question out of that, as one of the pictures/ stimulus optional questions Q.4?? this is just purely guessing though... you could use that stuff for loads of essays

KeyLimePie

bcat wrote: »

Sorry to be a pedant, but "its" in the case of your post does not contain an apostrophe... "It is" - shortened to "it's" contains an apostrophe.

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Heinrich wrote: »

Un devoir is a DUTY!

Sert a rien - worth nothing

Spelt wrong or wrongly spelt?

ne sevrait a rien
except with an accent (sideways fada \) over the a
sorted
and if anyone disagrees go talk to my PhD in translations French teacher!

Papillon!

KeyLimePie wrote: »

As for the comprehensions, selogene royal, that french mime who died, the smoking ban, sarkozy, <b>ediath pintoff</b>....!! anything really

do you mean edith piaf?
my teacher thinks shes coming up in a comprehension maybe as well...

Rosstafarian

bcat wrote: »

Sorry to be a pedant, but "its" in the case of your post does not contain an apostrophe... "It is" - shortened to "it's" contains an apostrophe.

The funniest thing about it is you're wrong. It's is perfectly correct.

muffinman

Rosstafarian wrote: »

The funniest thing about it is you're wrong. It's is perfectly correct.

*cough* No it isn't *cough*

melboix

Twee. wrote: »

I know I did better in my French oral than my OL Irish one.

...that's a bit depressing really. Good for you though, my French oral was horrific! :P

Hoping for Environment, Drugs and...I dunno, some form of easy diary would be nice. It's gonna be painful regardless what comes up. I really couldn't care less about French tomorrow, which is sad...but y'know, you're before History you don't really stand a chance.

Peslo

bcat wrote: »

Sorry to be a pedant, but "its" in the case of your post does not contain an apostrophe... "It is" - shortened to "it's" contains an apostrophe.

However it he had of said, Pollution's, or Politics', that would be fine.

Rosstafarian

muffinman wrote: »

*cough* No it isn't *cough*

My sincere apologies, I was wrong.

Peleus

what the hell does all this have to do with french?

KeyLimePie

Peleus wrote: »

what the hell does all this have to do with french?

none

tasha1

I'm So Bad At French Anyway But With Hist Tommow Too It Doesn't Stand A Chance...

cul-2008

we have to write an essay? :eek: news to me. My french teacher is an absolute joke. People like him should NOT be teachers, does it for the money imho. My two brothers had the same guy, very nice man dont get me wrong, but thats not going to get me points in my leaving. Prefers to play the guitar than take our honours leaving certificate french classes at times. :mad:

KeyLimePie

cul-2008 wrote: »

we have to write an essay? :eek: news to me. My french teacher is an absolute joke. People like him should NOT be teachers, does it for the money imho. My two brothers had the same guy, very nice man dont get me wrong, but thats not going to get me points in my leaving. Prefers to play the guitar than take our honours leaving certificate french classes at times. :mad:

omfg
i feel so sorry for you:(
QUICK GO LEARN ESSAYS NOWWWWWWWWWWW

i'm going studying now...
I NEED this C1 in french or else i'm ****ed for college and i'm gonna have to repeat it. which is shameful.

thetowerslegend

its defo gonna be something on the olympics and/or drugs cause last few years anything sporty was on there was a mention of it in someway!also lok at diary cause our teacher was certain they were coming up.....:Dso she better be right or else!!!!!!:mad:

Boink08

Does anyone else find the French tape ridiculously difficult? I'm far from a weak French student but I just find they tend to mumble and speak so fast it makes it so hard to hear the answers. Some of the vocabulary on it can be very tricky too. I'm worried that part of the exam will drag me down

AaronCregan

Boink08 wrote: »

Does anyone else find the French tape ridiculously difficult? I'm far from a weak French student but I just find they tend to mumble and speak so fast it makes it so hard to hear the answers. Some of the vocabulary on it can be very tricky too. I'm worried that part of the exam will drag me down

Ye I find it really hard as well and i'd say i'm alright at french. We hardly did any listening in school, we focused on the opinion questions and the oral. I failed the listening in my mock which brought my grade down and I ended up with only a C3. I'm not looking forward to the listening tomorrow.

The LeavyC

yeah i hate the listening too, it always brings me down.
There aren't enough past papers to be doing new ones, whenever i do past listening tapes i know the answers already, and have read the transcript so its not very good practice. Then i hear new ones and i start thinking I'm hearing completely different stuff to whats being said.

Also, I heard that crime is apparently an essay title to watch out for?

Mars Bar

Oooohhhh....I am not prepared AT ALL compared to you lot. I hope it's like the mocks, if I understand the statements this time and I'll be away with it...

muffinman

thetowerslegend wrote: »

also lok at diary cause our teacher was certain they were coming up.....:Dso she better be right or else!!!!!!:mad:

When has a journal intime not come up? I thought it was a given..

The LeavyC

yeah me too.

AaronCregan

Apparently question 1 will have an essay on a happy, sad or scary experience in your life as one of the options. Then a Journal Intime as question 2. Then 3 and 4 are the essay topics listed at the start of this topic.

Snake Pliisken

Where'd you hear that?

AaronCregan

My french teacher said it, she's been talking to A LOT of other French teachers and they all think that's how the paper will turn out.

Snake Pliisken

Coolies.

Calorimeterman

I hope they throw up something so abstract that everyon will be given basic attempt marks for doing it, that's my plan: do the hardest questions terribly, I'll get more marks (probably) than if I do the easy marks terribly.

And I hope a letter comes up:- 6 marks for the layout!!! 20% in the bag! :cool: