LEAVING CERT FRENCH 2010 PREDICTIONS & USEFUL PHRASES

fufureida

What do you guys think will come up this year? Will Crise Economique be a definite one? Polution? Racism? Le Sport?

Does anyone have any hints that their teachers have given them?
Any helpful sites for phrases, samples other than skoool.ie?

Anyone have any phrases paticulary for Journal Intime and just phrases that can be used with anything?

PREDICTIONS?

Come on ppl post !!!

ChristinaA

I think it could be a possible topic! .. dreadin it

eoins23456

devine?=guess what
ce le moins qu'on puisse dire=its the least one could say
monter sur ses grands chevaux=to be extremely angry
je veux crier=i want to cry
Zut!-dam it!-not sure if they say ah zut!
cela me met tres en colere-makes me very angry
cest le triste vérité-sadly thats the truth of the matter
être aux anges-to be over the moon
en avoir marre-to be fed up with

eoins23456

je suis ravi!-im delighted
un film comme pas les autres-a film like none of the other-can throw anything in there
pour etre honnete-to be honest
il ya bien des haut et des bas avec mon pere!-theres ups and downs with my dad
avoir la basse de maths-have a gift for maths
je me demande parfois si cela en vaut la peine-sometimes i ask myself is it worth the pain-good for diary entries
je suis portée sur les douceurs- i have a sweet tooth
cest indispensable!-
l'argent me brule les doigts-money burns my fingers literally(not the best at saving)
je ne pourrais donc pas vivre sans la musique- i couldnt live without music
je dois l'avouer-i have to admit
en revanche-contrastingly
télecharger-to download
je me souviens qu'une fois....i remember one time
jai peine a le croire-i hardly believed it


For the recession
je crains qu'il n'y ait plus autant de possibilitiés lorsque je commercerai a chercher un emploi dan l'avenir

Barack obama-cest comme une bouffée d'air frais apres les années Bush.-it like a breath of fresh air after the Bush years

la banque centrale américaine a fourni beaucoup trop d'argent aux banques a des taux tres bas-the american central bank lent the banks too much money as at rates that were far too low

quand le batiment va,tout va!-when infrastructure goes,everything goes(downhill)

laisser un gout amer aux contribuables-to leave a bitter taste in the mouth of the taxpayer

K4t

<snip> Yeah no.......

**Timbuk2**

This thread was started last year with useful phrases (actually by the above poster )

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055578349

keepkeyyellow

K4t wrote: »

Suce ma bite, salope.

The range of usage is greater in the oral but it can still be fitted in to a letter/note etc.

I'd like to point out to people not to use this. Cause like someone would be that stupid.

teacher30

Hi ..
The message posted by K4t is obscene and certainly do not use it in your exam. Idiot.

It's very hard / impossible to predict the hons French paper. Anything can come up unfortunately. I think Crise Economique is too obvious, so i'd say a question on La Pauvreté would be more likely (poverty).

randylonghorn

Hi, teacher30, welcome to Boards!

Thanks for pointing that out.

Just a note that we don't call people idiots around here, even when they are providing plenty of evidence to the fact ... we use the "report post" button and let the mods deal. Otherwise we just get flame wars ...

teacher30

randylonghorn wrote: »

Hi, teacher30, welcome to Boards!

Thanks for pointing that out.

Just a note that we don't call people idiots around here, even when they are providing plenty of evidence to the fact ... we use the "report post" button and let the mods deal. Otherwise we just get flame wars ...

ok - fair point. Good site though and interesting.

K4t

teacher30 wrote: »

Hi ..
The message posted by K4t is obscene and certainly do not use it in your exam. Idiot.

An idiot would take a random, untranslated french idiom from a website and use it in an exam without knowing what it meant. I am not an idiot. I'm here to help the idiots stop being idiots.:)

leavingcert

Does anybody have any idioms for the reactions questions like questions 3 and 4? Thay'd be such a help!

Also does anyone know what exactly the narrative question is? I never heard of it until the exam brief came out in the paper?

randylonghorn

K4t wrote: »

An idiot would take a random, untranslated french idiom from a website and use it in an exam without knowing what it meant. I am not an idiot. I'm here to help the idiots stop being idiots.:)

This forum is here to help students preparing for LC.

I seem to remember you found it useful for that purpose last year.

It is not here to enable your self-appointed crusade to teach better 'net cop-on.

That kind of help they can do without just at the moment, thanks.

You don't seem to be able to take a hint yourself, so ... banned for one month.

fufureida

randylonghorn wrote: »

This forum is here to help students preparing for LC.

I seem to remember you found it useful for that purpose last year.

It is not here to enable your self-appointed crusade to teach better 'net cop-on.

That kind of help they can do without just at the moment, thanks.

You don't seem to be able to take a hint yourself, so ... banned for one month.

My hero!

so far it's helpful guys. Will definately ask my teacher for the poverty essay. I'm sure poverty can link into the cruse economique too like...

LittleBlondiie

eoins23456 wrote: »

devine?=guess what
ce le moins qu'on puisse dire=its the least one could say
monter sur ses grands chevaux=to be extremely angry
je veux crier=i want to cry
Zut!-dam it!-not sure if they say ah zut!
cela me met tres en colere-makes me very angry
cest le triste vérité-sadly thats the truth of the matter
être aux anges-to be over the moon
en avoir marre-to be fed up with

"Crier" is the verb to scream, not cry.
"Pleurer" is to cry.
Don't give people hints if you don't know what they mean yourself.

irondragons

guys

If I fail french, I still get my leaving cert, right?

It's not like Maths is it?

teacher30

irondragons wrote: »

guys

If I fail french, I still get my leaving cert, right?

It's not like Maths is it?

No you'll be ok i think.
But yopu need to pass it for most courses, so just do enough to pass

Learn some general vocab - i've posted some on another page "French"

madraglic

thanks teacher30 for the vocab!!! im most nervous about french cos i got class grinds and im still terrible!!!:eek:

irondragons

teacher30 wrote: »

No you'll be ok i think.
But yopu need to pass it for most courses, so just do enough to pass

Learn some general vocab - i've posted some on another page "French"

Thank you very much.

flemingniamh

Heard from a few people that the future of ireland e.g. college is it worth goin? recession in some form,immigration could be some topics?

eoins23456

LittleBlondiie wrote: »

"Crier" is the verb to scream, not cry.
"Pleurer" is to cry.
Don't give people hints if you don't know what they mean yourself.

I ment cry out in anger.should have made it more clear but i was in a rush.And il give help if i want.i found those phrases useful for my french leaving so im sure somebody wel get some us bout of them

SYLT

teacher30 wrote: »

so just do enough to pass

How much is that for Ordinary Level, anyone?

Skintwin

C'est vrai dire que - it is true to say that
La drogue est un fleau qui ronge la coeur de nos grandes villes - Drugs are a scourge that eat away at the hearts of our big cities
Á mon avis - In my opinion

rockerlkj

i'd say a character question on the fool is coming up... or photosynthesis... it's definitely possible...

Conor108

rockerlkj wrote: »

i'd say a character question on the fool is coming up... or photosynthesis... it's definitely possible...

Boland defo.


Thinking La Crise Economique, L'alcool et sport myself

fufureida

Conor108 wrote: »

Boland defo.


Thinking La Crise Economique, L'alcool et sport myself

...???

Behind you Joey

eoins23456 wrote: »

For the recession
je crains qu'il n'y ait plus autant de possibilitiés lorsque je commercerai a chercher un emploi dan l'avenir

I think that this sentence is wrong as the verb craindre does not take subjunctive unless it's in the negative form?