** HL German before/after **

Lc201395

Anyone got any, please post them if you do

Any tips or advice would be good too.

user.name

Pretty sure we don't have a thread for this.. Hope this is a nice paper this year!

Viel Glück!

lizardspock

Get a few ole idioms into the letter and you're sorted, examiners go mad for them apparently. Ich drücke dir die Daumen and all that :pac:

peekachoo

What's everyone learning? Just the usual holidays/school/college/hometown stuff?

lizardspock

Gonna start listening to german cds again having neglected it for a while, maybe some tagesschau news.. don't really know where to start for the written stuff to be honest. Angewandte Grammatik predictions?

curly135

lizardspock wrote: »

Get a few ole idioms into the letter and you're sorted, examiners go mad for them apparently. Ich drücke dir die Daumen and all that :pac:

Hmm, good idea, may learn a few off, they'll come in handy if I do the letter.

peekachoo wrote: »

What's everyone learning? Just the usual holidays/school/college/hometown stuff?

Yeah, a lot of the oral vocab, but also vocab for the kinda topical things that come up now and again, Rauchen, Alkohol und Drogen, Rassismus, Umweltverscmutzung, das Internet... all the usual stuff :pac:

Would be nice if they asked Relative Pronouns in the Angewandte Grammatik, they haven't come up for a while.

TorpidCat

I'm just wondering, what's the exact list of topics that can come up for the grammar?

VincentLeB

So, what are people predicting for the letter? There's a new Chief Examiner this year!

VincentLeB

curly135 wrote: »

Would be nice if they asked Relative Pronouns in the Angewandte Grammatik, they haven't come up for a while.

Actually, relative pronouns came up in 2011.

curly135

VincentLeB wrote: »

Actually, relative pronouns came up in 2011.

Oh yeah... I was on about the ones where the relative pronouns are left blank and you have to fill them in yourself :P

comeclosa

Anyone think Komposita/Composite nouns are a likely question for A.G.?

Lucan Bohs

comeclosa wrote: »

Anyone think Komposita/Composite nouns are a likely question for A.G.?

What are they?

Prodigious

Hate studying for german.. Nothing to do only read and do papers... Ugh.

lizardspock

comeclosa wrote: »

Anyone think Komposita/Composite nouns are a likely question for A.G.?

Are they like nouns made up of two nouns? der Schultag??

mariecxx

what does everyone think the comprehensions could be on??

Prodigious

The Gathering

mariecxx

Prodigious wrote: »

The Gathering

a few people have told me this that do french! surely it wouldnt come up in german ?? like what kind of vocab would u even cover for this ??

Lucan Bohs

Emigration I suppose ^

comeclosa

Lesen sie jetzt bitte die Fragen zu Teil... EINS
Speaking of which, our German teacher told us that this year is the anniversary of some sort of really popular German cartoon thingies that have been on their main channel for 50 or 75 years or something that appear at the start and end of every ad-break (Like the E4 E-stings sorta)
She said that it's exactly the kind of thing they'd put onto Section 4 of tape.
Though.. predicting tapework is really kinda stupid :pac:

The Cheesepoo

What should i be studying for this? Have barely done anything for german

mossy95

One of the better exams for me but all the German has been crammed ou of me from the last week of cramming for exams, really hope I get a B2\B3 in this.

SecondMan

Ich spiele Tischtennis

Bertser

A couple of nice comprehensions and it'll be grand.

cremeeggeater

How do you even study german? Ich verstehe das nicht

user.name

Heres some nice ones for a formal letter if they are mean enough to put one on :pac:

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren (dear sir or madam)
Vielen Dank für Ihr Schreiben vom .. Date
Ich danke Ihnen im voraus für Ihre Hilfe
Mit freundlichen Grüßer, name

not much but just incase!

lizardspock

user.name wrote: »

Heres some nice ones for a formal letter if they are mean enough to put one on :pac:

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren (dear sir or madam)
Vielen Dank für Ihr Schreiben vom .. Date
Ich danke Ihnen im voraus für Ihre Hilfe
Mit freundlichen Grüßer, name

not much but just incase!

Formal Letter??
Please no!!

mossy95

lizardspock wrote: »

Formal Letter??
Please no!!

Has it ever come up before?

The Man They Couldnt

I'm completely neglecting the Grammar sections, It's always been a guessing game to me. I hope for comprehensions I can actually understand fully (for a change) and a nice Letter and Äußerung zum Thema. I also hope to impress the corrector with my unrivaled knowledge of German soccer and the city of Cologne...

Viele glück...

Lucan Bohs

The Man They Couldnt wrote: »

I'm completely neglecting the Grammar sections, It's always been a guessing game to me. I hope for comprehensions I can actually understand fully (for a change) and a nice Letter and Äußerung zum Thema. I also hope to impress the corrector with my unrivaled knowledge of German soccer and the city of Cologne...

Viele glück...

Not enough knowledge if you're referring to football/fußball as "soccer" :P

The Man They Couldnt

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

Not enough knowledge if you're referring to football/fußball as "soccer" :P

thanks buddy

mariecxx

urgh im really dreading this exam! my worst subject by far!

peekachoo

Soooo am...
Any tips on German grammar? It's nonsense to me I guess them everytime and get like 3/20 :P

SecondMan

I really hate the pieces of reading. Theyre either about someone's aunt, someone looking out a window or someone being depressed. Hoping for a simple one on how Johnny went to school and missed his bus or something

Lucan Bohs

Reading were good, writing was fine, listening was not great

user.name

was ok! not amazing, not bad just okay! comprehensions were alright, listening alright letter not so great

oh well finished the leaving now

_whiskers

The comprehensions were quite nice for a change, the Außerung was nice too, and the letter was ok, we hadn't covered tattoos and piercings but it was bluffable listing was good and normally I really struggle with them! Almost lost it when the man pronounced the gathering! Think I did pretty well

lizardspock

Was all a bit meh for me tbh. Could have went worse, but equally could have been better! Comprehensions were fine with the exception of picking out that change in outlook, just really could not see it, typical pointless german story! Listening went well, letter was fairly average although I got my stupid idioms in! :P

SecondMan

What was the food questions in the letter about again? Think I answered it wrong.

Lucan Bohs

lizardspock wrote: »

Was all a bit meh for me tbh. Could have went worse, but equally could have been better! Comprehensions were fine with the exception of picking out that change in outlook, just really could not see it, typical pointless german story! Listening went well, letter was fairly average although I got my stupid idioms in! :P

Same. I said things like she used to be unhappy with life but now she's making people happy (with the teddy bear). She used to like Franz but then decides to not see him etc

For the last part of the second reading comp for the matching part I got DEFBA. Anyone same?

Grammar was ok. Verbs were guessable and second part I guested es or em for most

Lucan Bohs

SecondMan wrote: »

What was the food questions in the letter about again? Think I answered it wrong.

What food we just to eat 10 years ago and what we eat now. Do we have imbusstubes?? here in Ireland

SecondMan

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

What food we just to eat 10 years ago and what we eat now. Do we have imbusstubes?? here in Ireland

I just said we mostly eat traditional food. And ten years ago we ate more take aways from foreign restaurants than we do today because of the recession. I then mentioned all the Indian and chinese restaurants in the country?

SecondMan

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

Same. I said things like she used to be unhappy with life but now she's making people happy (with the teddy bear). She used to like Franz but then decides to not see him etc

For the last part of the second reading comp for the matching part I got DEFBA. Anyone same?

Grammar was ok. Verbs were guessable and second part I guested es or em for most

I though she went to Franz's house for Christmas?

lizardspock

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

Same. I said things like she used to be unhappy with life but now she's making people happy (with the teddy bear). She used to like Franz but then decides to not see him etc

For the last part of the second reading comp for the matching part I got DEFBA. Anyone same?

Grammar was ok. Verbs were guessable and second part I guested es or em for most

It was finding the third point that I struggled with. Usually I find that question so obvious and the marking scheme has about 10 or 12 different options.. just wouldnt click!
Really cant remember what sequence my answers were, but i had a feeling that I had them right, they were fairly straight forward:)

curly135

Really happy with that, went well I think The adjective endings in the grammar section might have been a bit shaky, and I may have missed a few bits for the news part of the listening, but apart from that, it was a really accessible paper

VincentLeB

Guys, if you said teddy bear you got it wrong. She found a "Schwein" (a pig) "neben" (near) the teddy bears!

SecondMan

VincentLeB wrote: »

Guys, if you said teddy bear you got it wrong. She found a "Schwein" (a pig) "neben" (near) the teddy bears!

I noticed that but I didnt no what a Schwein was.. So I said it was a doll.

VincentLeB

SecondMan wrote: »

I noticed that but I didnt no what a Schwein was.. So I said it was a doll.

I had forgotten but remembered. Came in handy for the Äußerung when you had to point out the Sparschwein (savings pig)! I wouldn't have remembered it otherwise!

ameliaaaaa

It was such a nice paper! The comprehensions were so manageable ) happy out ! What was the weather in the alps ? I said something about clear visibility but I just didn't understand it ?
It made me laugh so much that everyone suddenly started being nice to Betty on the street just because she was carrying a life size pig ! And when the guy said "the gathering"

Chikablam

VincentLeB wrote: »

Guys, if you said teddy bear you got it wrong. She found a "Schwein" (a pig) "neben" (near) the teddy bears!

0__0

You serious?

Prodigious

The 2nd part of the grammar section was a pure minefield. Answered part 2 of the listening in english, realised after, and had to translate everything i'd written into german into the extremely narrow side.
Otherwise was grand I thought.

Moromaster

Chikablam wrote: »

0__0

You serious?

oh god I am an idiot.