Irish oral!

Im kinda worried about the sraith pictiur I did as I was really nervous and messed up a lot of sentences in the pictures but everything else went great :P
Never got under 65/80 in the sraith so I hope I did ok

Can anyone help me with these things?

"The public vote for who leaves" or " The public decide who leaves" or something similar.
"The public watch the people in the house"

Would really appreciate it. Cheers.

Josh93 wrote: »

Had my oral today, it went ok. Was most worried about the sraiths before I went in but I got "Cursa Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht" so I was happy enough with that. But did anyone else feel like the questions they were asked were really basic? I do HL myself and I'm really hoping for an A1, my teacher reckons I'll get it, but other people were coming out saying they were asked the modh coinniolach and about the culu eacnamaiochta and everything, but all I was asked was fairly basic stuff - what I want to do next year, my family, sport, what I'll do the summer, what I did last summer, where I live etc, although she kept cutting me off quite frequently with different questions also. Since it was so basic does anyone know if that will lower my grade? I'm a bit worried

I was the same, she kept cutting me off with loads of different questions. It's a pity, I had a lot more to say about what I want to do in college but she changed the subject right away.

Josh93 wrote: »

Had my oral today, it went ok. Was most worried about the sraiths before I went in but I got "Cursa Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht" so I was happy enough with that. But did anyone else feel like the questions they were asked were really basic? I do HL myself and I'm really hoping for an A1, my teacher reckons I'll get it, but other people were coming out saying they were asked the modh coinniolach and about the culu eacnamaiochta and everything, but all I was asked was fairly basic stuff - what I want to do next year, my family, sport, what I'll do the summer, what I did last summer, where I live etc, although she kept cutting me off quite frequently with different questions also. Since it was so basic does anyone know if that will lower my grade? I'm a bit worried

This too was my exact problem, mine was a little too easy. Although I got both Geibheann and picture sequence number 1, I was the one student who had the inspector. I threw in modh coiniollach too when she asked about what I would like to do after school. I said something like "if I got the points, I would love to study..." Along those lines. I mean, she seemed impressed. All she asked me was about my family, area, school, hobbies, Oxegen, and then what I would like to do after the leaving cert.

I'm glad it wasn't too hard, but I'm cautious as to if I have done enough.

seriouslysweet wrote: »

Anyone else care to tell me how theirs went?

Terrible.

Mine was grand. Got asked on:

Local Area
HPAT (Brought this on after she asked did I want to do Farming)
Irish (Is it a dying language)
Gaeltacht
Music
Online Videos (I told her to look up a video of me singing in Irish :P)

Got "Rialacha na Scoile". Wasn't too bad. Think I said something in the Módh Coinníollach once but I didn't really think of saying anything in it. It was very basic tbh. No difficult questions.

At the end she said she couldn't tell me how I did but that I got on very well so I'm pleased enough =P

They say 2 for describing 1 for your question and 1 for the examiner's question

I went for about 5 on the description but the examiner didn't mind because it was all good stuff I reckon :P She was smiling away to herself Keep in mind some Sraiths are much longer than others

I went on my own mediocre level of fluency to :P

Well there seems to be 2 types of sraith:

-People enjoying themselves
-One where a lesson is learned

Tbh I think the best way is to learn off some vocab on how to say people are happy, sad, shocked etc. And kind of have a format. A lot of vocab can be reused.

No problem. Also have a list of about 10 questions you can pick from

More scared for the Sraith Pictiúirí than anything else, I'm fine with holding myself up on the general conversation - our teacher gave us things to learn off, and I've decided that I'm going to memorize some of that and then lead the conversation towards tar éis an Ardteist and talk about drama and acting and music and what I want as a career, hopefully they'll let me!

It's weird, our Irish teacher kind of struck the fear of God into us with the Oral examination and how the examiner will dock marks for this and we sort of got the impression that they'd be strict and analytical about it, but we had a practise Irish Oral this one time and the two ladies who were there were so lovely! Really encouraging and nice and good-natured, it was so much easier to relax and have a CONVERSATION with them, as opposed to repeating this huge spiel that I learned off.

deathbythelc wrote: »

I'm doing Pass and I'm really worried as I have absolutely nothing prepared. Planning on learning off the sraith pictiurs this weekend.

Do the examiners know from your standard of Irish whether you are pass or honours? I'm really worried about the general conversation and being asked questions that I either don't understand or can't answer. Has anyone got any advice?

Sounds like you've got a long weekend ahead of yourself. Try not to be worried going into the exam.
I'm sure they know what level you are doing. For the general conversation I think you should prepare a small paragraph on family, area, school, after the leaving, hobbies and holidays. The conversation passes really quickly. Some examiners may throw in a sneaky question towards the end about having gone to the Gaeltacht, using the internet or something like that so prepare a one line answer for those.

That's what I did and it went fairly smoothly.

17Dan21 wrote: »

Sounds like you've got a long weekend ahead of yourself. Try not to be worried going into the exam.
I'm sure they know what level you are doing. For the general conversation I think you should prepare a small paragraph on family, area, school, after the leaving, hobbies and holidays. The conversation passes really quickly. Some examiners may throw in a sneaky question towards the end about having gone to the Gaeltacht, using the internet or something like that so prepare a one line answer for those.

That's what I did and it went fairly smoothly.

Thanks a million. I'll do a bit for those topics and hope for the best!