Junior Cert 2011 : French

shadowninty

Wednesday 15th June 2011.
Morning 09:30-12:00

All discussion and questions about the French goes here.

Good luck peeps!

her0fire

French is simple
Listening, comprehensions and letter writing and finished :P

shadowninty

I'll struggle to get a B
Should've concentrated like I did in first year

Desire.

I hate French. I was alright, but then I decided not to keep it on, so I now know nothing.

shadowninty

Desire. wrote: »

I hate French. I was alright, but then I decided not to keep it on, so I now know nothing.

Becoming lazy.. sigh

ohdechertig

Why is Paper 1 written on the title? There isn't some secret second paper that I haven't heard about is there?

Doublechinlolz

I havent revised paper 2 fml

ITDemo

Exact same thing that happened to me.
Such a swot in French for the first year. Then.... Became way to much effort :P
Keeping up on the tenses and all was too much

shadowninty

It says something very worrying that it took ye an hour to cop it on

Exoskeleton

Good to know I'm in the same boat as other people here. I just haven't been bothered with French over the last few months, and it is taking it's toll.
I don't have a clue about the conditional tense, and I have a feeling it may come up.
It's good that we have a day to study for it, given that you don't do Business, but with History looming on the same day, maybe an all nighter or getting up at 6am is due.

Slow Show

Exoskeleton wrote: »

Good to know I'm in the same boat as other people here. I just haven't been bothered with French over the last few months, and it is taking it's toll.
I don't have a clue about the conditional tense, and I have a feeling it may come up.
It's good that we have a day to study for it, given that you don't do Business, but with History looming on the same day, maybe an all nighter or getting up at 6am is due.

The conditional tense is pretty basic, although it involves having a decent knowledge of other tenses. To know it, you only need to know the future stem of the verb and the imparfait ending. For example, I'll use the regular verb finir (to finish)

I finish - Je finis
I will finish - Je finirai (finir is the future stem)
I used to finish - Je finissais (ais is the imparfait ending)
I would finish - Je finirais (future stem + imparfait ending)



French is the subject I worked the most at after my disappointing mock result, so fingers crossed I do well!

matthew8

Exoskeleton wrote: »

Good to know I'm in the same boat as other people here. I just haven't been bothered with French over the last few months, and it is taking it's toll.
I don't have a clue about the conditional tense, and I have a feeling it may come up.
It's good that we have a day to study for it, given that you don't do Business, but with History looming on the same day, maybe an all nighter or getting up at 6am is due.

Tenses don't "come up" in French. you may be asked to say you would do something in a letter but another tense would suffice.

Exoskeleton

matthew8 wrote: »

Tenses don't "come up" in French. you may be asked to say you would do something in a letter but another tense would suffice.

Yeah that's what I meant to say, that it would come up as one of the points in the letter.

@Slow Show Thanks! I'll have a look over that tomorrow.

cantanstrophe

I think we could do without the future tense altogether.

That was a joke. Props if you get it.

ohdechertig

We've never even done the conditional tense.

I'm sort of worried about French, as the listening comp. may be a complete disaster!

rorrissey

I'm sooo worried about this, and I hate that it's on on the same day as history! Two subjects I need to cram for! :< I wish I could predict what was coming up in the letter and the note!
Anyone want to post some lovely useful phrases?

rainaa

nvmmmm!
ignore this post loll

Doublechinlolz

I might put up some useful phrases i got.. Ill only do the ones that fit into loads of things :L

robman60

My favourite subject by far. Our teacher is the definition of legend, jokes when it's appropriate, but is always able for the work involved too.

I'm hoping to get a really high grade, as I hope to become a lecturer/teacher in it some day, not that JC French will be a great addition to a CV!

Joe95

I'm aiming for a B in this. It's easy enough, all I have to do is go over a few letters then I'm sorted.

phenomenale

I thought history was on in the morning not French..?!

EDIT: ****.

adrian607

A post card will come up its every second year and last year was a not but still ****** :eek:

Slow Show

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

Desire.

Slow Show wrote: »

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

You're going to get an A.

ohdechertig

Desire. wrote: »

You're going to get an A.

Agreed.

My night has consisted in cramming the entire History course, and trying to learn off French vocab. All I can remember is monkey - singe.

Mr. Rager

Slow Show wrote: »

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

Ciunas cailin bothar bainnie?

DarkDusk

Slow Show wrote: »

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

Google Translate???

Slow Show

Je ne peux pas étudier le soir avant des examens, je le deteste.

Parlez francais! Si nous bavardons en francais, nous apprenons un peu francais. Du coup, nous étudions!

(Et non, je n'utilise google traduction, I'm using hideously basic French! )

Is maith liom caca mils

Is it bad if i'm better at french then irish? personally i blame the schools. :P

matthew8

adrian607 wrote: »

A post card will come up its every second year and last year was a not but still ****** :eek:

From looking at past papers, note can come up twice in a row.

Slow Show

I don't understand why no one wants the note to come up, it's ridiculously short and easy!

Anywho, listening to this on repeat counts as study:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo

En

One of my friends from a different school told me that they were preparing for a formal letter, and that it's possible that an informal letter won't come up at all this year.
We haven't even touched on formal letters.
I am excreting quite a lot of feces at the moment.

Desire.

Slow Show wrote: »

Je ne peux pas étudier le soir avant des examens, je le deteste.

Parlez francais! Si nous bavardons en francais, nous apprenons un peu francais. Du coup, nous étudions!

(Et non, je n'utilise google traduction, I'm using hideously basic French! )

Well... that will get you an A! That's not basic to me... I fail at French!

I'm throwing in "J'ai du pain sur la planche" somewhere in my letter to make me look smart. Stole it from the Leaving Cert forum. :pac:

FatRat

Lads ..........

A formal letter's gonna come up, simple as

Slow Show

Desire. wrote: »

Well... that will get you an A! That's not basic to me... I fail at French!

I'm throwing in "J'ai du pain sur la planche" somewhere in my letter to make me look smart. Stole it from the Leaving Cert forum. :pac:

Haha, I saw that too! :L I'm planning on being all:

'Excuse-moi pour n-écrit pas plus tot, mais j'ai du pain sur la planche en ce moment'. :cool: Gimme an A plz, thanks.

Summernights

Im doing pass French because i done higher and got 68% in the pre'smbut thats with a whole load of study and hard work... and i just cant learn french i find it impossible! ....
Good Luck Everyone!

Desire.

Summernights wrote: »

Im doing pass French because i done higher and got 68% in the pre'smbut thats with a whole load of study and hard work... and i just cant learn french i find it impossible! ....
Good Luck Everyone!

I got 68% in the Pres too. I should have dropped to pass since I'm not keeping it on.

Eoin_Sheehy

Je suis nul en Français, je serai si je recevrais in B, j'aime le listening mais je deteste le lettre.

TheRedDevil10

so ****ing easy
left at 11:10 :pac:

TheRedDevil10

FatRat wrote: »

Lads ..........

A formal letter's gonna come up, simple as

hahahaha
you wasted time studying it. Didn't even come up

cantanstrophe

Well, that was simple. Loved it. FRENCH EXAM, Y U NO HARD?

FatRat wrote: »

Lads ..........

A formal letter's gonna come up, simple as

:pac:

Tomas18

you should really talk to 5th years like me i left after an hour in higher level and got a B:L Ce n'est pas un examen difficile si vous savez à quoi s'attendre.

AllisonB

J'espère obtenir des bonnes notes aprés mes examens parce que l'examen Francais n'était pas trop difficile. Les compréhsions était facile et la lettre assez facile et le compréhension écouter très facile. Je n'utilise pas Google! Je pense que j'ai écrit quelque mots faux.

Don't know if this is great french..but ah well.

shadowninty

B here I come

fabulousdiva

OMG FRENCH WAS AMAZING! wow the reading was simple!!! and the postcard and letter was so good!! yipee!
AND I WAS RIGHT THAT A FORMAL LETTER DIDNT COME UP!! who the **** started that a formal letter would come up??

GLAD i did not study for one

left 30 mins early everyone did!

fabulousdiva

FatRat wrote: »

Lads ..........

A formal letter's gonna come up, simple as

well it did'nt lol why did u think one would come up when it never has on its own????

omg a kitty

Well got an A in that

AllisonB

does anyone know how many marks are deducted from letter for spelling or getting the meaning mixed up?

Conchir

That went really well, I reckon I got an A. I'd say I got close to full marks in the listening and my letter was quite the awesome.

Very easy, much easier than the past few years.

spirit_77

Hoping to scrape a B did rubbish on the the letter and postcard couldnt think of any verbs :L

rorrissey

The listening and the reading was SO easy. I'm pretty sure I got most of those two sections right. But the rest was pretty awfully. I basically bull****ted through the note and the letter completely. Tenses all over the gaf! :pac: