Junior Cert 2011 : French

shadowninty · 12-06-2011 07:32PM #1

Wednesday 15th June 2011.
Morning 09:30-12:00

All discussion and questions about the French goes here.

Good luck peeps!

her0fire · 12-06-2011 07:37PM

French is simple
Listening, comprehensions and letter writing and finished :P

shadowninty · 12-06-2011 07:39PM

I'll struggle to get a B
Should've concentrated like I did in first year

Desire. · 12-06-2011 07:53PM

I hate French. I was alright, but then I decided not to keep it on, so I now know nothing.

shadowninty · 12-06-2011 08:00PM

Desire. wrote: »

I hate French. I was alright, but then I decided not to keep it on, so I now know nothing.

Becoming lazy.. sigh

ohdechertig · 12-06-2011 08:27PM

Why is Paper 1 written on the title? There isn't some secret second paper that I haven't heard about is there?

Doublechinlolz · 12-06-2011 08:32PM

I havent revised paper 2 fml

ITDemo · 12-06-2011 08:41PM

Exact same thing that happened to me.
Such a swot in French for the first year. Then.... Became way to much effort :P
Keeping up on the tenses and all was too much

shadowninty · 12-06-2011 08:41PM

It says something very worrying that it took ye an hour to cop it on

Exoskeleton · 12-06-2011 10:31PM

Good to know I'm in the same boat as other people here. I just haven't been bothered with French over the last few months, and it is taking it's toll.
I don't have a clue about the conditional tense, and I have a feeling it may come up.
It's good that we have a day to study for it, given that you don't do Business, but with History looming on the same day, maybe an all nighter or getting up at 6am is due.

Slow Show · 12-06-2011 10:35PM

Exoskeleton wrote: »

Good to know I'm in the same boat as other people here. I just haven't been bothered with French over the last few months, and it is taking it's toll.
I don't have a clue about the conditional tense, and I have a feeling it may come up.
It's good that we have a day to study for it, given that you don't do Business, but with History looming on the same day, maybe an all nighter or getting up at 6am is due.

The conditional tense is pretty basic, although it involves having a decent knowledge of other tenses. To know it, you only need to know the future stem of the verb and the imparfait ending. For example, I'll use the regular verb finir (to finish)

I finish - Je finis
I will finish - Je finirai (finir is the future stem)
I used to finish - Je finissais (ais is the imparfait ending)
I would finish - Je finirais (future stem + imparfait ending)

French is the subject I worked the most at after my disappointing mock result, so fingers crossed I do well!

matthew8 · 12-06-2011 10:39PM

Exoskeleton wrote: »

Good to know I'm in the same boat as other people here. I just haven't been bothered with French over the last few months, and it is taking it's toll.
I don't have a clue about the conditional tense, and I have a feeling it may come up.
It's good that we have a day to study for it, given that you don't do Business, but with History looming on the same day, maybe an all nighter or getting up at 6am is due.

Tenses don't "come up" in French. you may be asked to say you would do something in a letter but another tense would suffice.

Exoskeleton · 12-06-2011 10:41PM

matthew8 wrote: »

Tenses don't "come up" in French. you may be asked to say you would do something in a letter but another tense would suffice.

Yeah that's what I meant to say, that it would come up as one of the points in the letter.

@Slow Show Thanks! I'll have a look over that tomorrow.

cantanstrophe · 12-06-2011 10:48PM

I think we could do without the future tense altogether.

That was a joke. Props if you get it.

ohdechertig · 13-06-2011 03:57PM

We've never even done the conditional tense.

I'm sort of worried about French, as the listening comp. may be a complete disaster!

rorrissey · 13-06-2011 04:14PM

I'm sooo worried about this, and I hate that it's on on the same day as history! Two subjects I need to cram for! :< I wish I could predict what was coming up in the letter and the note!
Anyone want to post some lovely useful phrases?

rainaa · 13-06-2011 04:26PM

nvmmmm!
ignore this post loll

Doublechinlolz · 13-06-2011 04:47PM

I might put up some useful phrases i got.. Ill only do the ones that fit into loads of things :L

robman60 · 13-06-2011 08:47PM

My favourite subject by far. Our teacher is the definition of legend, jokes when it's appropriate, but is always able for the work involved too.

I'm hoping to get a really high grade, as I hope to become a lecturer/teacher in it some day, not that JC French will be a great addition to a CV!

Joe95 · 14-06-2011 01:01PM

I'm aiming for a B in this. It's easy enough, all I have to do is go over a few letters then I'm sorted.

phenomenale · 14-06-2011 08:51PM

I thought history was on in the morning not French..?!

EDIT: ****.

adrian607 · 14-06-2011 09:06PM

A post card will come up its every second year and last year was a not but still ****** :eek:

Slow Show · 14-06-2011 09:08PM

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

Desire. · 14-06-2011 09:10PM

Slow Show wrote: »

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

You're going to get an A.

ohdechertig · 14-06-2011 09:16PM

Desire. wrote: »

You're going to get an A.

Agreed.

My night has consisted in cramming the entire History course, and trying to learn off French vocab. All I can remember is monkey - singe.

Mr. Rager · 14-06-2011 09:23PM

Slow Show wrote: »

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

Ciunas cailin bothar bainnie?

DarkDusk · 14-06-2011 09:23PM

Slow Show wrote: »

Mon examen francais est demain. Je ne pense pas que ce sera trop difficile, et je suis un peu anxieuse.

Et vous?

Google Translate???

Slow Show · 14-06-2011 09:30PM

Je ne peux pas étudier le soir avant des examens, je le deteste.

Parlez francais! Si nous bavardons en francais, nous apprenons un peu francais. Du coup, nous étudions!

(Et non, je n'utilise google traduction, I'm using hideously basic French!

)

Is maith liom caca mils · 14-06-2011 09:45PM

Is it bad if i'm better at french then irish? personally i blame the schools. :P

matthew8 · 14-06-2011 10:04PM

adrian607 wrote: »

A post card will come up its every second year and last year was a not but still ****** :eek:

From looking at past papers, note can come up twice in a row.

Slow Show · 14-06-2011 10:10PM

I don't understand why no one wants the note to come up, it's ridiculously short and easy!

Anywho, listening to this on repeat counts as study:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo

Junior Cert 2011 : French

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