German Oral!

leaveiton

Since there's so much talk of French, thought I'd set up a thread for the German oral

What does everyone have prepared? Just want to know if I'm missing anything important. In my oral copy I have the following topics (with lots of questions in each, obviously)

• Myself and my family
• My best friend
• Family relationships
• Pocket money
• Part time job
• School
• Daily routine
• Holidays
• The future
• Hobbies
• Where I live/my house

Think that's everything, might be forgetting a few things. Then obviously I have questions prepared on the themes from the pictures:

• Der Sommerjob - Part time jobs, working abroad, have you ever been to Germany
• Vorsicht beim Rauchen - Part time jobs again, living in the city/living in the country, smoking
• Schuleraustausch - Why people go on exchanges, learning foreign languages, have you ever been on an exchange
• Ruhestorung - What would you have done in the situation, old people vs young people, problems of old people, old people in my area
• Zu zweits geht's besser - Homework, studying, working alone vs working together

Anyone else want to add anything?

SeanMadd

Do you have anything prepared on "knowledge of Germany", the differences between Germany and Ireland, and the different school systems? I think I saw that somewhere, that they might come up.

leaveiton

Yeah, I've got that!

FaoiSin

They ask things on your best friend? Um I'm really bad at German but I hope I can get full marks if I learn off all the answers and smile at the examiner

DepoProvera

Looks like you have everything covered, assuming each heading is sufficiently expanded..

Although I've never heard of them asking about a best friend..(unless you bring it up)

When is everybody's? Mine's Wednesday, can't wait to get it over with I'm sick of repeating this crap - Am Liebsten wäre ich zwei Wochen lang im Bett geblieben

leaveiton

Yeah I'm not sure if they ask about a best friend really, I know my teacher likes to ask it. It'd be easy enough to make up on the spot though if you really had to I suppose!

Mine's not til the second week, they're being done on Monday and Tuesday so I'll probably be on the Monday.

DepoProvera

They like to ask the 'Waren Sie schon in Deutschland?" in the General Questions also so don't let that put you off.

Also they might ask you if you'd like to settle down (niederlassen) in a different country/ study in Germany for a year so have something on that

leaveiton

Yeah all I stuff I have in relation to the picture sequences will be learned anyway just in case they decide to throw it into the general conversation

finality

DepoProvera wrote: »

Looks like you have everything covered, assuming each heading is sufficiently expanded..

Although I've never heard of them asking about a best friend..(unless you bring it up)

When is everybody's? Mine's Wednesday, can't wait to get it over with I'm sick of repeating this crap - Am Liebsten wäre ich zwei Wochen lang im Bett geblieben

There's something wrong with that German sentence. "Am Liebsten würde ich zwei Wochen im Bett verbringen" would be much simpler. :P




I'm not really preparing for the German oral, I don't want to learn things off - besides, I want to get Irish out of the way first. I'll definitely go over the roleplays and picture stories before it.

DepoProvera

Well there's nothing wrong with that sentence according to my teacher :L And simple =/= good for the oral imo! :P

finality

DepoProvera wrote: »

Well there's nothing wrong with that sentence according to my teacher :L And simple =/= good for the oral imo! :P

"ich wäre geblieben" - I would be stayed

Right? Or is this some crazy grammatical thing that's going over my head? :L

DepoProvera

I think its more 'would've remained in bed'.. Googling 'ich wäre geblieben' brings up the phrase used in German news articles so hopefully it's right haha

finality

OH now I get it, apparently I forgot that the past existed :L
Thanks for clearing that up!

There's even a song:

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

TERRIBLE song, but song nonetheless :L

DepoProvera

Ah, German music makes me so happy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggi-GsL9bx4

nb93

I have my German oral tommorow at 8:45 any last minute advice for me?

rkeano5

I am so screwed for the oral, I haven't gone over half of those topics, and I only have until Thursday :-( und Ich weiss nicht die Bildergeshicten

angela1711

how to say 1994 in german ? is it neunzehnhundert vierundneunzig ?

rkeano5

angela1711 wrote: »

how to say 1994 in german ? is it neunzehnhundert vierundneunzig ?

das ist richtig

DepoProvera

meinen Sie, ich sollte mich an das irische Konsulat in Bremen wenden?

Does the 'meinen Sie' make it 'sollte ich mich...' ?

SeanMadd

DepoProvera wrote: »

meinen Sie, ich sollte mich an das irische Konsulat in Bremen wenden?

Does the 'meinen Sie' make it 'sollte ich mich...' ?

I'm not sure, but I just say "Soll ich mich an das irische Konsulat in Bremen wenden", don't think you need the meinen sie?

finality

DepoProvera wrote: »

meinen Sie, ich sollte mich an das irische Konsulat in Bremen wenden?

Does the 'meinen Sie' make it 'sollte ich mich...' ?

No, but I'm pretty sure you should be saying "ich soll" and not "ich sollte" - I think "ich sollte" is imperfekt. I'd put a dass in there too if I were using that sentence, so I'd say

"Meinen Sie, dass ich mich an das irische Konsulat in Bremen wenden soll?"

but the way that SeanMadd phrased it is much simpler and it's what I'd say too.

DepoProvera

Sound! My German is shocking :L

SeanMadd

Does anyone want to give me their notes for the topics on the picture stories? Just a vague outline?! I can't imagine what they'd ask on the theme for 'jugend' so I don't know how to prepare. Bitte!

*Hmm just checked my role play and the german part says the consulate in berlin, while the english part says Hanover.. Which is it?!? :pac:

DepoProvera

Like they'll ask: In your opinion are youths often careless?; Relationship between old and young people; should old and young live in the same apartment block? Who is right(Ruhestörung)

This is mine for Ruhestorung (from memory so don't count on it being mistake free :P)
Auswirkungen ihres Handelns auf andere Menschen sind ihnen nicht bewusst.
Sie sind oft mit sich selbst beschäftigt.
Meiner Ansicht nach, mussen junge Leute lernen, dass andere Menschen Bedurfnisse und Rechte haben.
Aber nicht alle junge Leute sind so egoistisch. Es gibt auch viele, die Rucksicht nehmen.
Beim schoenen Wetter wollen alle die frische Luft geniessen.
Junge Leute sollten, ohne Zweifel, ein Recht auf Spass haben, denn das Leben ist kurz genug.
Aber ich bin der Meinung, dass die junge Leute in dieser Geschichte gedankenlos gehandelt haben.

(don't know how to do umlauts so eh :P)

PictureFrame

Hey guys, I don't do German, I do French but i'm curious- do ye have to learn any topical issues for your Oral? Like Emigration/Alcohol/Global Warming/Economic Crisis stuff?

leaveiton

Nope, not really! The pictures and roleplays take up such a large chunk of the oral that they only get to spend about 5ish minutes (could be more than that, can't remember the exact figure) on your general conversation, so it's just kept pretty basic.

me_at

Hey,
does anybody know if I should learn anything about the environment and the recession? Does questions that difficult come up?
Also, does anybody know how many marks go for the questions at the end of the picture stories? It it a big chunk?

Help appreciated Thanks

DepoProvera

me_at wrote: »

Hey,
does anybody know if I should learn anything about the environment and the recession? Does questions that difficult come up?
Also, does anybody know how many marks go for the questions at the end of the picture stories? It it a big chunk?

Help appreciated Thanks

God no! Just don't bring anything like that up and you'll be fine.

Picture Seq is : 10 for Storytelling, 10 for Explanation/Future Projection, 10 for Opinion of Issue/Theme... This is out of 100%

leaveiton

me_at wrote: »

Hey,
does anybody know if I should learn anything about the environment and the recession? Does questions that difficult come up?
Also, does anybody know how many marks go for the questions at the end of the picture stories? It it a big chunk?

Help appreciated Thanks

Someone in my class asked if they ever ask that kind of stuff and my teacher just said it won't get asked. She's been teaching German for years so I trust her!

The picture sequences are divided up as follows:
10 marks for narrating the picture
10 marks for the clarification (what happens next and the questions based on the picture)
10 marks for the questions on the themes

Hope that helps

me_at

leaveiton wrote: »

Someone in my class asked if they ever ask that kind of stuff and my teacher just said it won't get asked. She's been teaching German for years so I trust her!

The picture sequences are divided up as follows:
10 marks for narrating the picture
10 marks for the clarification (what happens next and the questions based on the picture)
10 marks for the questions on the themes

Hope that helps

Thanks so much
Phew! I hope we don't get a mean examiner though
Ahh rats! Haven't touched the questions and future projection yet, thought it wasn't worth much.
Vielen Dank

angela1711

SeanMadd wrote: »

I'm not sure, but I just say "Soll ich mich an das irische Konsulat in Bremen wenden", don't think you need the meinen sie?

I just say "Ist es notig das Irische Konsulat in Berlin anrufen?"

leaveiton

I have "Soll ich mich aus irisches Konsulat in Berlin wenden?" Is that also correct?

gfgfgf14

Ich habe- Soll ich mich an das irische Konsulat in Berlin wenden,oder?

xSpacey

If one of you guys would be kind enough to do out sentences for each picture sequence, that would be really awesome.... These past 2 weeks have not been spent well... =/

PTheArtist

We just say "Soll ich das irisches Konsulat in Berlin anrufen?"

finality

leaveiton wrote: »

I have "Soll ich mich aus irisches Konsulat in Berlin wenden?" Is that also correct?

I think "aus" is incorrect, it should be "an das". "aus" means, like, out of, or from.

leaveiton

finality wrote: »

I think "aus" is incorrect, it should be "an das". "aus" means, like, out of, or from.

Yeah I could have sworn I had "an das" written down but I checked and that's not it :P Is irisches Konsulat correct? I'm seeing a lot of people saying "irische", and I can't remember if it's just some grammatical thing or if one is right and the other isn't :pac:

finality

leaveiton wrote: »

Yeah I could have sworn I had "an das" written down but I checked and that's not it :P Is irisches Konsulat correct? I'm seeing a lot of people saying "irische", and I can't remember if it's just some grammatical thing or if one is right and the other isn't :pac:

I think you can shorten it to "ans" but I'm not sure. it's "irische" because it's accusative and definite article, it would be "irisches" if it were "an ein irisches Konsulat". I just checked it up, I'm so bad at adjectival endings :L

DepoProvera

I think it would only be irisches if it were 'ein irisches Frustuck' for example.. It's akkusativ so it takes an -e... AFAIK! :P

edit : damn you ^^ :P

Truebattle

You can use "Sollte ich mich and das Irische Konsulat in Berlin wenden" My teacher gave us notes on the roleplay.

leaveiton

finality wrote: »

I think you can shorten it to "ans" but I'm not sure. it's "irische" because it's accusative and definite article, it would be "irisches" if it were "an ein irisches Konsulat". I just checked it up, I'm so bad at adjectival endings :L

Okay, thanks :P We haven't really focused on adjectival endings yet so I was confused!

finality

Truebattle wrote: »

You can use "Sollte ich mich and das Irische Konsulat in Berlin wenden" My teacher gave us notes on the roleplay.

You're right, I actually have "sollte" written in my notes. :pac: Does anyone understand why it means "should I" instead of "should I have"? It's really annoying me now.

DepoProvera

It could be to do with the fact that sollen and wollen don't take an umlaut in the subjunctive(or conditional I never remember) case.. I dunno, I feel like prefacing every post in this thread with: I could and probably am completely wrong so don't take my word for it.

finality

DepoProvera wrote: »

It could be to do with the fact that sollen and wollen don't take an umlaut in the subjunctive(or conditional I never remember) case.. I dunno, I feel like prefacing every post in this thread with: I could and probably am completely wrong so don't take my word for it.

Noooo, now I get it - konjunktiv 2 is used when being polite in some instances, so "sollte ich" is just sort of a polite thing, it's like in English, "could you" is more polite than "can you" and it's the same as the past tense form of the verb

This site is great - http://german.about.com/od/grammar/a/konjunktivII.htm

so yeah you're right about it being subjunctive, god damn subjunctive :L

SeanMadd

Jeeeesus ye're going very deep into this whole 'Shall I call the Irish consulate' thing Haha! Anyone's oral finished? I've mine tomorrow, booooyah!

angela1711

Yeah, I finished mine today ! it is such a relief !

SeanMadd

angela1711 wrote: »

Yeah, I finished mine today ! it is such a relief !

Awh lucky Did they ask anything out of the ordinary?

finality

Mine is next Tuesday but I'm at 9.30 in the morning

DepoProvera

Anyone with feedback? Have they been directed to ask any out of the ordinary questions etc?

DepoProvera

Oh and quick question.. Is it "über dem Osterfest erklärt" I'm assuming about is dativ...

Wiirdo

How many roleplays and picture sequences should I do?