**HL FRENCH...Before/After**

lkate

Lads.. what topics do ye reckon could surface on this year's french?
How is everyone set?

lorrieq

I heard drugs in sport is a potential essay... Don't know how you'd do that.

I'm gonna stick with the generic alcohol, climate change, letters, and maybe something on the Olympics.

Togepi

Hopefully they won't throw a completely unpredictable paper at us out of the blue anyway. Although that might actually suit me... Wait, nah.

grantyrs10

Le dopage dans le sport:

Il faut que je dise que ce problème se répand de nos jours surtout au haut niveau. Je discuterai les méthodes du dopage et ce que je pense ce qu'on doit faire pour l'ámeliorer.

Les méthodes évoluent inconstamment. Les athlètes feront n'importe quoi pour qu'ils puissent gagner. On verra sans doute ce fleau aux jeux olimpiques cette année. Beaucoup d'entre eux sera disposé à prendre les stimulants pour y procurer le prix.C'est vraiment une honte,à mon avis.

Je pense qu'il faut qu'on fasse quelque chose pour se tenir le controle aux jeux olympiques et aussi dans tout le monde du sport. Je me souviens bien quand j'ai entendu que Rio Ferdinand prenait les drogues. Cela m'a choqué! J'espère qu'on changera le facon de sanctionner pour qu'on ne le répete encore.On doit rester optimiste, une amélioration peut venir.



Thats just a small bit of dopage that I thought of in my head... might think of more. I hope there is no mistakes let me know please if there is !!:D

Whatsernamex33

I haven't a clue, but I'm dreading French /:

NinjaDucks

My teacher stressed obesity as well as television (including reality t.v.) along with drugs&sport, role of women, old people, war/crime, environment and road safety. Learning off general sentences like "Il est impossible de nier qu'il existe un proble\me quant a\" (It's impossible to deny that there is a problem regarding...) would be a good thing to do, rather than whole essays at this stage. Build up your vocab regarding those topics and you should be sound...hopefully.

iluvgreenday246

NinjaDucks wrote: »

crime

sure that was up last year

HowAreWe

I hear the predictability of the leaving cert is a good topic to learn.

annettesayz

I'm so terrified about french, not my strongest subject.
Not sure what topics to learn well, I'm prepared for Violence/Discrimination, Media, Alcohol...
Cant really find any good websites to help with topics.. and we never used a book in class only impossible hand outs ;/

ChemHickey

I hope we get a funny aural, apparently the german ones are hilarious!

The only funny thing I saw was on the marking scheme for 2011

""Ans: They were picking mushrooms 2 marks

Note if incorrect verb used, planting/smoking,deduct 1 mark

Chuchoter

I hope we don't get a horrible literary comprehension. I'm unsure how I did in the oral and I can't lose any more

ChemHickey

Chuchoter wrote: »

I hope we don't get a horrible literary comprehension. I'm unsure how I did in the oral and I can't lose any more

That's the same with me! I really can't decide how I did in the oral so if the comprehensions are bad, I'll be very worried!

Chuchoter

My comprehensions are better than they were,but a bad one could throw me.An A in French would make so much difference for me :S

ChemHickey

Chuchoter wrote: »

My comprehensions are better than they were,but a bad one could throw me.An A in French would make so much difference for me :S

I'd love an a too! My comprehensions were ok in the mocks, got 100% in one and 67% in the other.. The corrector we had was lovely though, he mentioned me a few times in the script of "how well the class did thing", saying coongratulations to me with my 100% comprehension :L :P and he seemed to like how I used a bad word in my diary entry *scandal*

NinjaDucks

iluvgreenday246 wrote: »

sure that was up last year

I'm aware of that, but it's not unheard of for things to appear a second year running. (:

Zaffy

I'm finding it near impossible to choose topics to cover, any suggestions?

kilianmanning

lkate wrote: »

Lads.. what topics do ye reckon could surface on this year's french?
How is everyone set?

I'm absolutely ****ed:( I just want a pass anybody know how to get a pass?

smithy77

Do u think Olympics, Racism, Alcohol, Violence, Drugs, Emigration, Elderly people will be enough topics to cover? Its literally going to be a night before the exam job. Any other specific topics please let me know:D

biohaiid

I have to seriously cram for this. Was meant to do it Friday night but got too lazy.
Be grand. I'm sorted for the comprehensions and diary, just a few universal lines for the topics, and a sentence or 2 on each topic and be fine.
My biggest fault is writing too much. It ends up being irrelevant and full of grammar mistakes.
Does anyone know if we have any paper to make a rough work plan?

Also, do people think there's a chance a diary wont come up cos' of this whole unpredictability thing?

amyleaving

No.. i know they are trying to be unpredicatable but a diary has come up every single year , that would just be horrible of them, i think it nearly has to come up , i'm hoping they can't be that mean anyway :P but i think one will come up and it may be a bit harder than usual

biohaiid

amyleaving wrote: »

No.. i know they are trying to be unpredicatable but a diary has come up every single year , that would just be horrible of them, i think it nearly has to come up , i'm hoping they can't be that mean anyway :P but i think one will come up and it may be a bit harder than usual

I hope so anyways, think I'll look over the layout for an email and notes just incase, especially with last years diary being so easy.

grantyrs10

the easiest thing to do i find is learn generic phrases !
eg: je suis tout a fait d'accord avec cela
Tout le monde sait que
beaucoup de personnes partagent cette opinion
chacun a son propre opinion
je discuterai ce que je pense
je dirais que
il faut que je dise
en fin de compte,
en revanche
autrement
soyons optimiste,une amélioration peut venir

zachdiebold

Translated:

grantyrs10 wrote: »

je suis tout a fait d'accord avec cela I am completely in agreement with
Tout le monde sait que Everyone thinks that..
beaucoup de personnes partagent cette opinionMany people share this opinion
chacun a son propre opinion Everyone has their own opinion
je discuterai ce que je pense I will discuss what I think
je dirais que I would say that
il faut que je dise I must say
en fin de compte Ultimately
en revanche On the other hand
autrement Otherwise
soyons optimiste,une amélioration peut venir Let's be optimistic, one improvement can come

Killian In The Name Of

Begging for the Olympics. Or drugs (ahem).

Fergus_

I'm really confident for French, easy enough to learn off a lot of general phrases or phrases you can easily change to fit the topic.

smithy77

Anyone else doing a study the night before the exam job?:p

kel_lawd

smithy77 wrote: »

Anyone else doing a study the night before the exam job?:p

Total night before jam kind of job...did anyone know Levaign Cert was gonna be so hard?!

Vetton

Just gonna put this out there, but the French Open? I'd say think about that too as a possibility. (: Dreading these essays. Let's hope the the examiners got soft when laying out the French paper. :P

ImFudged

I have alcohol, drugs, smoking, health, technology(media), drink driving and politics prepared along with loads of verbs and all my tenses, A1 here I come

Astrozombies

I'm so good at french but betcha Ill be cramming one liners the night before and then Ill end up thinking in irish on the day fml

DavidK1994

Anybody have tips on what may be coming up?
Also.. just say for example I stray a bit of topic from the point in a written piece ... how much marks are going for staying to the q?? (for both 90 and 75 worders)

Thanks Dave.

17Dan21

Hopefully alcoholism, drugs, pollution, traffic, violence, sport and the economy will get me the high B I need.

kaet

Didn't alcohol come up last year? Not saying it can't this year of course but it's pretty unlikely, no?

ivanh

Might aswell get this one goin aswell!

Anyone have any predicitions? I reckon a formal letter..

cocopopsxx

Any hotly tipped topics? I only have tonight and I want at least an A2. I ALWAYS get a B1, no more no less but I wanna push it to A2 this time, any particular topics I should look at?

biohaiid

Cram session is beginning in 10 minutes.
I think I'm gonna look over and email, letter note etc incase for some reason they dont throw a diary in there ..

Killian In The Name Of

Wanting the Olympics, drugs, emigration/immigration or technology. But the Olympics especially!

I HAVE to do well in this!

Coeurdepirate

Judging by how random the papers have been so far I'd say Plath could make an appearance.

Random_Person

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Judging by how random the papers have been so far I'd say Plath could make an appearance.

I'm banking on complex numbers and hopefully some differentiation..

Notorious93

if the olympics came up lads, wat wud the question be like..? cause it wud hardly just be, "wat is your opinion about the olympics?"

mikechris1919

I reckon racism in sport after the patrice evra and luis suarez case cus evra is french

mikechris1919

Random_Person wrote: »

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Judging by how random the papers have been so far I'd say Plath could make an appearance.

I'm banking on complex numbers and hopefully some differentiation..

Maybe a bit of erosion aswel

Togepi

mikechris1919 wrote: »

I reckon racism in sport after the patrice evra and luis suarez case cus evra is french

I would be absolutely delighted if that or racism came up!! The whole Suarez - Evra thing was my document for the oral.

IRA 1916

Anybody have a sample answer for something on the Olympics?? :cool:

grantyrs10

IRA 1916 wrote: »

Anybody have a sample answer for something on the Olympics?? :cool:

Les jeux olympiques auront lieu cette année en juillet.Je pense qu'ils sont une bonne occasion de démontrer son talent. Je dicuterai ce que je pense de ce sujet et je dirai les problemes que j'en vois autour les jeux.

Bien sur,je verrai les jeux cette année pour que je puisse m'amuser et me décontracter apres avoir passe deux semaines en faisant mes études.Ce sera vraiment formidable.J'ai l'intention de les regarder avec mes amis afin que nous puissions se rencontrer au meme temps.

J'estime qu'il y a beaucoup de problemes qui entaurent ces jeux. D'abord, on remarque les athletes qui prennent les stimulants pour gagner a tout prix. C'est vraiment une honte a mon avis. Je pense qu'il faut qu'on fasse quelque chose pour supprimer ce probleme surtout au haut niveau.

Alors,je vais rester optimiste,une amelioration peut encore venir. J'espere que nous verrons des jeux justes cette année et nous nous amuserons fort bien. J'ai hate de les voir.


Theres a sample i tried to make up wat ye think wiud it be enough if something similar came up ?

Meglamonia

Is the tape after the written tomorrow?

grantyrs10

Meglamonia wrote: »

Is the tape after the written tomorrow?

yes we get a 10 min break after written and the n straight into it... what time is french 2mro i have forgotten ??

Meglamonia

grantyrs10 wrote: »

yes we get a 10 min break after written and the n straight into it... what time is french 2mro i have forgotten ??

9.30

Dwellingdweller

just found an idiom yous might find useful in the exam... faire une carte de france! literal meaning: make a map of france

actual meaning: have a wet dream :P

ele1992

Can anyone give me essays ? im so scared :L

IRA 1916

Dwellingdweller wrote: »

just found an idiom yous might find useful in the exam... faire une carte de france! literal meaning: make a map of france

actual meaning: have a wet dream :P

Haha wtf? How does that translate to wet dream??