French

Mimikyu

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Citizen_Erased

Ill be in a differant room for the exam. I'm "studying" letters cause mine suck Not much else you can do.

Irishstabber

Im doing french and I suppose all im gonna study is the Letters and Postcards...cant really study without kinda diong some papers...cant study listening either

Strokesa

Im gonna be in a hall by myself next week for italian, its gonna be so weird! I'll be the only person in the whole school!
For french I'm learning a few phrases for a letter and short note/postcard, i think probably an introduction and some of those phrases that apparantly get u a whole load of marks...good grammar and all that ****. I think if i can be bothered that ill do some of the comprehensions in the past papers, but it probably wont help much anyway. Im mostly gonna concentrate on history today i think. I have so many accounts to learn!

Diarmsquid

French is compulsory in our school. I'd do it anyway. I like it.

I'm studying vocabulary, letters and verbs.
Tryin to do some listening too.

Citizen_Erased

Compulsory? Who gave them permission to do that?

Mimikyu

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Irishstabber

I got a disk yea but why bother...im grand in French, if I wanted to study hard Id prob get an A but my dream of at least a B in everythin is shattered by Irish already...so anythin over a C in French im fine now...Ill just get all A's in the leaving

Mimikyu

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Irishstabber

Yea I have to say its the best for me too...unless I just pick it up on my own, then Ill remember things...but revising 3 weeks before JC is no good for me

Diarmsquid

Citizen_Erased wrote:

Compulsory? Who gave them permission to do that?

No-one, just our principal likes to tell people what to do.

Irishstabber

Damn my school...we got sweet FA choices for a European Language..still dont in 5th!!!

princess fluff

yep we ave to do french too... i dont really mind it though... im nearly positive that a note is comin up this year... in the past papers its been every second year with the notes and postcards so its due up this year!!! its easier too!!

PurpleFistMixer

French is compulsory for JC in my school. You can do German as well but I'll be damned if I'm gonna do 4 languages... Shame though, 'cause I might have liked German.

Anyway, for studying, I'll probably just go over my verbs and grammar and stuff. We barely learned any grammar in french so I gotta go over loads of stuff. Damn teacher. But I hate learning off stuff, so it's easier to just get the grammar down. Kinda worried about French because I was really confident about it, I mean it's pretty easy, and then I got like.. my second lowest in it in the mocks.

JBoyle4eva

Well, I'm ace t French, was forced by our school in 1st year, you could give up in 2nd, but I loved it. Still do.

I'm only gonna go over the CD we got in our exam appers tonight, but also the note. That's what's expected this year, it was postcard last year so it alternates every year. Except in 99/2000 when they were both notes. So don't trust me on that one.

Victor

Irishstabber wrote:

I got a disk yea but why bother...im grand in French, if I wanted to study hard Id prob get an A but my dream of at least a B in everythin is shattered by Irish already...so anythin over a C in French im fine now...Ill just get all A's in the leaving

Aim for a B+ average then!

Irishstabber

Will do.....But honestly if I do good in the listening I'll ace it!!!
In the leaving I'll be speaking fluent anyway...Thank You Dr.Pimsleur :rolleyes:

I lived in France for 3 years and Im still terrible at it.I got 74% in my pre...I really should have got an A.Im studying the letter and note,because Im afraid of what will come up.

Rozabeez

as long as I dont fail french I'll be happy!

Irishstabber

Hey can you do a subject that you never done in school for these tests.....as in I dont do German but I would like to do it for the leaving

*MmmPie*

As far as I know in theory you could do it but it'd involve a lot of extra work. Depends on your school though.

philologos

i love doing german

Who, me?

I was made do French AND German.
French is 50 million times easier, though. German's really hard to understand...French listening is grand, you can usually guess your way through it.

Irishstabber

Well I know very very very basic german...I will know it fluently hopefully by september
I done an LCA German test and I aced it...LC german is another story
But I'll be hoping to do it for Leaving even though we dont do it in school...Just to maximise marks

Who, me?

Irishstabber wrote:

Well I know very very very basic german...I will know it fluently hopefully by september
I done an LCA German test and I aced it...LC german is another story
But I'll be hoping to do it for Leaving even though we dont do it in school...Just to maximise marks

German's quite easy to pick up, the verbs and stuff are grand in comparison to French...I'd say you won't have too much trouble with it.

Victor

Irishstabber wrote:

Hey can you do a subject that you never done in school for these tests.....as in I dont do German but I would like to do it for the leaving

You can do as many exams as are practical. I did Art and Business Organisation extra in the Leaving Cert.

Irishstabber

Thats good to know...I'll inform the teachers im doing it in 5th as to avoid any problems(as I'll have to do Oral too I suppose )

Fobia

Feck, I've been playing computer games all night...time to study, going to print out the notes from skool.ie and just learn them off - the rest of the paper is fairly trivial it's the letter and postcard I'm worried about as I've never passed a test on them!

Hugh Hefner

French is mandatory in my school too. I think it's mandatory for L.C. too but I'm not sure. It's an alright subject so nobody complains.

My teacher is really good (Louise Curtain rocks) and she's made out all these big summary not booklets which make studying really easy. Go her! She's even going to be out Form Tutor next year while our usual one has a baby (or babog as she might call it).

I'll probably get a B in French. I always miss the A by only a few percent. It's very annoying, especially since I mostly get As in class tests. I hope I get an A tomorrow.

Strokesa

You definitely can do whatever subjects you want. Im doing Italian for my junior and i never did it in school, and i think il do german in the leaving cos i did it in 1st year. I would have done it for the junior, but i missed 2nd year so i had so much stuff to learn this year and i only started french too, so i wouldnt have had time! Just dont forget to tell your school cos i nearly did!

Irishstabber

I have to say...thats test wasn't hard...wasnt too easy either--I had most trouble in the reading comprehension :eek:

philologos

german is so easy
the whole comprehension stuff is so easy then u need common sense of what you have learned to do the postcard and letter

jennyq

So what did everyone think of it?

I thought the tape was fine. The long conversation was different to past ones, but easier too. The comprehensions were all fine. I thought the last one about the TV presenter was quite tricky. I was really glad to see a note up, we'd done loads of prep on them in class.

The formal letter coming up was a shock, but seeing as you had a choice between that & a letter to your penpal it was fine. Maybe they're trying to introduce the formal one into exams more.

All in all I'm fairly happy, I think I'll do as well as I did in the pre if not better.

PurpleFistMixer

I thought it was moderately brutal.
The listening was a lot harder than usual listenings. Of course it might have been because I was daydreaming like hell for SOME REASON. Anyway. I got thrown by that damn listening, and for the rest of the exam I was thinking in Irish.

I forgot all of the most basic vocabulary ever, could barely even conjugate tenses and it was just quite bad. Which is really annoying because French is easy once you're not thinking in IRISH and I'd say I did even worse than I did in the mocks.

Mimikyu

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eoghan h

That test was really hard. What was up with the reading comprehension about a drunk bear?

Strokesa

Me too. That happened to me loads of the time, I can never think in the right language! I kept writing down irish and then crossing it out. My paper was a mess. I was finished early so i did the 2 letters, but id never done a formal one before. I just did vous instead of tu! And my appropriate ending was "i would be delighted if i go to your school. i would be delighted if i learn french. I would be delighted if you tell me some news"...i learnt TWO phrases for that test. i would be delighted(could you tell?) and 1 to start off the note with.
The comprehensions were quite hard, but i loved the 1 about the bear getting drunk...lol. And i couldnt stop laughing in the tape when the kids were saying 'oui monsiour' god the tape tests are funny this year. Apart from that section, i hated the tape and that girl who kept talking had a really annoying voice, so i couldnt listen to her.

Fobia

The note and letter werent too hard (I usually mess those up horribly) I nearly fell asleep during the aural so got a few questions wrong, and I found the last 2 reading comprehensions quite hard, other than that it was ok. Instead of leaving early and going out into the cold I just put my head down and slept on my desk until 12

X-Man

I messed up big time....... couldnt handle da letters at all....... Eveytime I tried to think of a phrase it came to me in Irish.......

Captain Hook

The last question in the reading section was impossible (about the guy and his twin babies) I wasted so much time on it! :mad:

PurpleFistMixer

Fobia wrote:

I just put my head down and slept on my desk until 12

I tried that after Geography but the supervisor woman came over and was asking me if I was okay.

*MmmPie*

Is it just me or are many of your supervisors not exactly...perceptive? I swear, we could be chanting collectively or dancing on the tables and our supervisor wouldn't bat an eyelid... The amount of people I saw cheating today is unreal!!!

elefant

The french is usually easy and sweet, like a biscuit with chocolate, but much harder today. The listening epecially was way harder than other years

Hugh Hefner

Arrrrgggghhhhh! French! I was really hoping for an A in French, now I'll be happy with a B. The tape test, which I'm usually fine at, messed me up so bad. It was really hard. The comprehension was really hard compared to the ones I've done before. It really annoyed me.

Big Ears

Fobia wrote:

The note and letter werent too hard (I usually mess those up horribly) I nearly fell asleep during the aural so got a few questions wrong, and I found the last 2 reading comprehensions quite hard, other than that it was ok.

Pretty much the same as me except I mixed up the tenses a bit during the letter .By the way the tape = about 47% of the exam :eek: .

*MmmPie*

Its actually 43.75%

Big Ears

*MmmPie* wrote:

Its actually 43.75%

yes............yes it is .

Fenny

I thought the listening comprehension could have gone a little better, but I think I guessed a lot of my answers. The comprehension was ok; man, the subjects were weird! The bear who drank (was it 30?) cans of beer, and wasn't there something about a camel in Germany? Funny stuff.
The formal letter was a bit of a surprise, but I was happy with my informal letter. My note was terrible, though. All in all, I'm hoping for a B, but a C will do. I can't stand French, anyway.

Big Ears

I said: about 30 . as it was Trentaine or something like that .

PurpleFistMixer

I babelfished "trentaine" and it says it means "about thirty". So much for MY answer... =/

I thought the French was pretty hard,especially the wriiten comprehensions.I was hoping for a A but I think Ill get a B.

In the one about the girl at the cash machine being attacked,what was the weapon used?