French Oral - Document?

md99 · 12-04-2007 7:11pm #1

Who's going in armed?

md99 · 12-04-2007 7:11pm

I'm going in solo for the simple reason that I couldn't ever think of anything for my document, also I'm too lazy to make one, so figures.

Steve01 · 12-04-2007 7:13pm

Armed and ready. It will be a great opportunity to show off my vocabular prowess. In French, of course

shazzyshaz · 12-04-2007 8:23pm

got one written out etc jus need to learn it and come up wit stuff to say!! no biggie haha

Heinrich · 12-04-2007 8:27pm

shazzyshaz wrote:

got one written out etc jus need to learn it and come up wit stuff to say!! no biggie haha

On espere que ton ortographe en francais est meilleur que tes efforts en anglais.

Tu peux discuter les avantages du clavier francais pour les accents.

shazzyshaz · 12-04-2007 8:31pm

hhmmm heinrich! je suis pas stupide, bien sur, mon francaise est meilleur que mes efforts en anglais, donc haha!

md99 · 12-04-2007 11:33pm

Est-ce que vous voudriez parler en francais ensemble?
(ye wana start a French convo??)

JC 2K3 · 12-04-2007 11:44pm

Non. Vive la mort du francais!

Rozabeez · 13-04-2007 12:23am

shazzyshaz wrote:

hhmmm heinrich! je suis pas stupide, bien sur, mon francaise est meilleur que mes efforts en anglais, donc haha!

Je suis desolé ma copain, c'est "je NE suis pas".

Good **** at it though.

Spank · 13-04-2007 12:37am

I'm only making mine up tomorrow I think. Does anyone have any cool sentences on a concert? PURLEASE? I am brutal at French. Je deteste francais.

genericgoon · 13-04-2007 12:44am

isnt there a le before francais. Anyways armed and ready. I just took 4 pictures from the french revolution and ill talk about them. Also I wanna introduce my document with a flourish. VOILA! MON DOCUMENT!

md99 · 13-04-2007 1:12pm

yes there is... unless you mean a particular french person who you're naming only by nationality

Spank wrote:

I'm only making mine up tomorrow I think. Does anyone have any cool sentences on a concert? PURLEASE? I am brutal at French. Je deteste francais.

tell me what you'd like to say and I'll translate... what concert, when, who'd you go with etc.. how ya felt bout it, sorry i could make up any sentences but they may not be relevant at all..

shazzyshaz · 13-04-2007 2:24pm

Rozabeez wrote:

Je suis desolé ma copain, c'est "je NE suis pas".

Good **** at it though.

ummmm the french tend to say: je suis pas rather than je ne suis pas! its more for those who are fluent though:p

Rozabeez · 13-04-2007 3:14pm

You'd probably be pulled up on it for LC grammar though, we're often pulled up on it. I wasn't trying to be a smartass or anything, dunno why I was censored!

13-04-2007 3:17pm

I brought a photo into my French oral. Barely anyone else had in my school, so the examiner was quite happy with it from the beginning!

nedward · 13-04-2007 4:23pm

Rozabeez wrote:

You'd probably be pulled up on it for LC grammar though, we're often pulled up on it.

Pour l'oral, ca va, parce que c'est l'idiom en France, mais on a besoin d'un niveau plus elevé pour la production écrite.

Tomlowe · 13-04-2007 6:55pm

On ne dirait pas "What up my nigga" si on passait un épreuve orale en anglais, alors, pourquoi parler comme ca en francais?

JC 2K3 · 13-04-2007 6:59pm

Quelles nouvelles, mon ami noir?

md99 · 13-04-2007 7:17pm

You guys raise good points, it's true that idioms are great but baring in mind that only some and not all examiners will recognise them (there's only 2 actual French French teachers examining in the country, I had one test me last week and she informed me of this)... you could always be unfortunate to get the one idiot who doesn't recognise an idiom and marks you down... happened me in the pre written once or twice..

Seinas · 13-04-2007 7:22pm

Spank wrote:

I'm only making mine up tomorrow I think. Does anyone have any cool sentences on a concert? PURLEASE? I am brutal at French. Je deteste francais.

A site i swear by is google.com, on the right of the searchbar click on language tools.

its great for phrases, like the popular North Kerry saying ''je suis coincé entre une roche et un endroit dur''

As for my document, im taking this in:

shazzyshaz · 13-04-2007 7:43pm

ya rozabeez i was tryin to figure out what the censored part meant!!! haha.

shazzyshaz · 13-04-2007 7:44pm

ya i used some vocab in the mock oral and the examiner didnt know it!! humph.
My teacher is a french french teacher, classy.

md99 · 14-04-2007 2:52am

shazzyshaz wrote:

ya i used some vocab in the mock oral and the examiner didnt know it!! humph.
My teacher is a french french teacher, classy.

Does she examine orals too? If so I had her last week ..... (mock-examining me of course)

shazzyshaz · 14-04-2007 11:57pm

not sure if she examines orals! she has big black frizzy curly hair and is french and small......... is yep thats her!

GretchenWieners · 15-04-2007 11:26am

shazzyshaz wrote:

ya i used some vocab in the mock oral and the examiner didnt know it!! humph.
My teacher is a french french teacher, classy.

i have a french french 1 for the real deal apparently.

as for the document, brought 1 in last yr and got around a B1/B2 in the oral, my friend didn't and got an A1 with a diff examiner. Most of my class got Cs and Ds though!! Depends on preparation really.

EmmetF · 11-12-2007 9:30pm

Help! :eek: I'm completely screwed, I have to present the document to my class by Thursday but I don't even know what to do it on!

I don't play any sports because of "medical" issues so I can't do it on sport, I haven't been to any exciting countries/trips lately (nothing substantial enough for a document anyway)... But I was thinking I could do it on Music... Though I don't even play an instrument (sorry, I'm a bit boring that way:p)

Any ideas?

I just need to give a 10 minute presentation and then the class bombards me with questions for a little while... until they're all satisfied really.
Learning off phrases and the like is not a problem, just can't think of anything.

TheVoodoo · 11-12-2007 9:37pm

On the Actual day of the exam, the examiner wont know, or care, if you play sport ect.

What will be important is your standard of French!

Im doing my LC this year too, and sure Im going to be making half the stuff up in the Oral, because its easy to talk about.

Dont complicte it for yourself! Just do whatever you can talk about easily.

EmmetF · 11-12-2007 9:50pm

Thanks, but at the moment all I'm really concerned with is getting something done for Thursday.

I just need anything, but I can't really lie because all my classmates will know I don't play sports and ask stuff like where do I play and the like takin the piss

Also about 3 lads in my class are doing it on rugby and football, and I wanna keep it as original as I can :cool:

I think I might go ahead with Music, I can talk about bands I like, concerts I've been to... might mention how I'm trying to learn the gee-tar.
Any suggestions? Oh and does anyone know where I can get pictures of the Kanye concert in Phoenix Park, or Fiddy Cent in the RDS?

Mars Bar · 11-12-2007 10:57pm

A female drummer(moi!) always goes down well!!
Have mine from last year, the examiner liked it last year so I'm keeping it this year!

BanzaiBk · 11-12-2007 11:00pm

I did mine on Marcel Proust's book A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Went down great with the examiner and she only looked for fairly basic info about the book.

EmmetF · 11-12-2007 11:15pm

Ok well I'm gonna go with the Music theme. I want 4 pictures and esto presto 4 things to talk about. I've a pic of

****** - Music festivals
Arctic Monkeys - Fav band
50 Cent live - Concert I was at recently

need one more though, any suggestions?

EmmetF · 11-12-2007 11:15pm

That post was (my bad, didn't know I couldn't say) btw, dunno why that's censored.

Edit: The festival in question was in early July.

BanzaiBk · 11-12-2007 11:26pm

EmmetF wrote: »

That post was O X E G E N btw, dunno why that's censored.

No talk of that promoter;) (read the stickies)

PurpleFistMixer · 12-12-2007 5:11pm

My French teacher is of the belief that one isn't marked on their document and that it's only put in to calm the student... so we're not doing one.
My apathy towards French since the Junior Cert has grown such that I'm not going to bother doing one on my own time. I'll just pray for the best come exam day.

JC 2K3 · 12-12-2007 5:23pm

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

My French teacher is of the belief that one isn't marked on their document and that it's only put in to calm the student... so we're not doing one.

wtf? Of course you're marked on your document. In fact, IIRC, it counts for about 20%(maybe 10%, I can't remember) which otherwise would just be distributed as part of the normal convo.

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

My apathy towards French since the Junior Cert has grown such that I'm not going to bother doing one on my own time. I'll just pray for the best come exam day.

I was apathetic too. But think of it this way, they can mark you completely on random things they ask you or mark you on random things as well as something definite. It's a lot smarter to do a document IMO.

PurpleFistMixer · 12-12-2007 5:32pm

Yeah it seems like a good idea, but currently I've not the time (nor desire) to do it. Also I'd say if you had it badly prepared you'd be penalised more harshly than say, having a bad answer to a random question put to you.

yurmothrintites · 12-12-2007 9:27pm

EmmetF wrote: »

Ok well I'm gonna go with the Music theme. I want 4 pictures and esto presto 4 things to talk about. I've a pic of

****** - Music festivals
Arctic Monkeys - Fav band
50 Cent live - Concert I was at recently

need one more though, any suggestions?

I'd be careful with your document there. I know it sounds stupid but if you have a picture of something or someone controversial you could be asked abstract questions. 50 cent is involved with gangs and guns etc and the examiner could ask you about problems like that in ireland! Alot of examiners try to catch students out! It happened to me with foreign sports in croke park but i bulleed my way through and got an A1

EmmetF · 13-12-2007 12:26am

Oh thanks, I never really considered that. Well for tomorrow I should be ok, I don't think my teacher will be that stingy and ask me something like that. I'll definitely prepare it better for the Oral Exam.

EmmetF · 14-12-2007 12:47am

Just thought I'd let you all know my document worked a charm 2day. I mentioned I lost my wallet at Kanye West and she started talking about how she lost hers recently, all I had to do was agree with how tragic it was!

Merci à tous de votre aide!

fillefatale · 15-12-2007 12:41pm

BE prepared for anything.
I had a large collage with me, then she started asking me questions about was I artistic and how creative I was.. I wasn't prepared for a question like that, so I got nervous and kept repeating myself. I didn't get the grade I wanted needless to say.

cson · 15-12-2007 12:47pm

Holy dead thread resurrection Batman! :eek:

SRFC90 · 15-12-2007 5:13pm

yup, defo bringing in something. it's an easy way to learn off lines, talk about something you like, and most important.. calm yourself by banging out a few lines ya know n have prepared!!:D

im doing mine on my favourite band and the concert i saw them at! thinkin of putting some pics and a bitta of info about them on an A4/A3 sized sheet! that sound ok?? like would my writing have to be in french or english on the sheet!?

JC 2K3 · 15-12-2007 8:37pm

Just bring a pic tbh.

I personally just took down an A4 sheet of paper, on which was printed a picture of my favourite band, off the wall in my room, brought it in and talked about it.

Fanatic4Life · 16-12-2007 5:49pm

I've a mock oral on Tuesday :S Gonna bring in a document, hope to talk about the film Paris, je t'aime. I've been trying to figure out what sort of q's I'm likely to be asked...any suggestions? Anyone else do one on a film?

oscartrump · 27-01-2008 7:34pm

I need to present a french document to my class on Tuesday.Yes thats only a little over 48hrs!!!Im a good french student and im going for an A1 but just cant think of anything to do.I want it to be original though!i dont want to do a sports trip, family holiday or a concert. any ideas?????wat are all u guys doing?

Coeurdepirate · 24-02-2012 3:48pm

Rozabeez wrote: »

Je suis desolé ma copain, c'est "je NE suis pas".

Good **** at it though.

C'est drôle que tu lui as corrigé, tous les Français disent 'je suis pas'. Et c'est 'mon copain', pas 'ma copain'. Bonne effort, mais ceux qui corrigent les autres quand ils font des fautes aussi ont l'air d'être très, très stupide à mon avis.

On topic, yes, i'll be going in armed!

Edit: Just noticed how old this thread is. *awaits scolding from mod* :rolleyes:

Chuchoter · 24-02-2012 4:55pm

I have an amazing document, if I do say so myself :P

Canard · 24-02-2012 5:02pm

charm alone anyone?? :P

ill make a document sometime soon :pac:

oh, et coeur, tu as fait des erreurs aussi. je te laisserai les trouver tout seule!

(nah ill tell you - its font, not faisent :P air très stupide, oui! :P)

Coeurdepirate · 24-02-2012 5:57pm

Patchy~ wrote: »

charm alone anyone?? :P

ill make a document sometime soon :pac:

oh, et coeur, tu as fait des erreurs aussi. je te laisserai les trouver tout seule!

(nah ill tell you - its font, not faisent :P air très stupide, oui! :P)

Hahahah whatever man

yeah I was typing out notes for my document earlier and it said faisent was wrong so I was like hmmm...OH **** I'M RETARDED!

Canard · 24-02-2012 6:04pm

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Hahahah whatever man yeah I was typing out notes for my document earlier and it said faisent was wrong so I was like hmmm...OH **** I'M RETARDED!

haha same thing happened to me before! she was like this should be this, that should be that...and i assume you know whats wrong with this ("children do the dishes") i was like ....est-ce qu'ils ne faisent pas la vaiselle? :pac: well at least we know now! :P

Togepi · 24-02-2012 6:50pm

Armed, of course. :P

And I quite like the idea suggested earlier in the thread about being extremely dramatic when introducing the document - "VOILA!! MON DOCUMENT!!"

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