German orals

Riveta · 15-09-2005 5:04pm #1

i'm just wondering how many topics do you have to have prepared for the german orals altogether?

*marie* · 15-09-2005 8:09pm

There's no certain number of topics that you "have" to have prepared, they can ask you anything, but generally they stick to the issues from your picture stories and roleplays. I think the picture stories are the same as last year, if so it could be stuff like racism, differences between Irish and German schools etc

Personally I think it's better than French or Irish cos out of the 15 mins of the oral, 5 have to be spent on the picture stories, 5 on the role play and the reamaining 5 on general questions, so the really won't have time to ask you about anything other than yourself/family, school etc in the general questions.

4Xcut · 15-09-2005 8:46pm

in the general convo there are 7 sections they will only ask you on. family, wohnort,school,career plans. and a few others i ncant think of now. get a syllabus from the dep. and it will help(aolt).

Lord Oz · 15-09-2005 9:19pm

Any one got a link to a pdf of the german syllabus?

Riveta · 16-09-2005 4:26pm

thanks a mill! my teacher was spouting on about thirty topics or something?? crazy frau scully!

Drag00n79 · 16-09-2005 4:31pm

Leaving Cert German Syllabus

The conversation element of the oral will last 4.5 to 5 mins and will cover some of the following themes:

Meine Familie und ich
Die Schule
Wohnort
Freizeit
Zukunftspläne
Spracherlernen
Aufenthalt in einem deutschsprachigen Land
Kontakt mit Deutschen

Also, there will be a question asking if you wish to speak about a German literary work or a German movie.

CrimE · 16-09-2005 7:47pm

*marie* wrote:

There's no certain number of topics that you "have" to have prepared, they can ask you anything,

Dont think thats true. German is probably the best oral subjects to take. They cant ask you anything about current affairs unlike french etc. There are prescribed topics that they can only ask. Dont know them all though.

Drag00n79 · 16-09-2005 7:54pm

CrimE wrote:

Dont think thats true. German is probably the best oral subjects to take. They cant ask you anything about current affairs unlike french etc. There are prescribed topics that they can only ask. Dont know them all though.

True about not anything can arise in the conversation. The topics are listed in the previous post. There are also set questions on each picture story (in schools since January 2004) and the examiner has tasks (on a card) to carry out in each role-play.

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