french mocks

foogirl

anyone do their french mock yet?wats the paper like?

GretchenWieners

From what I heard it's supposed to be relatively ok and doable.

Muiriosa

Bloody hell, if there's any subject I am dreading it is French. Doing mocks week after next and the essay questions and most of the tape are a total puzzle to me. I hope it is do-ablel !!

Azureus

i had mine last friday and it was hard enough but do-able. the reading comprehensions were quite difficult but the composition are ok-violence came up, the differences between france and ireland and something about is reading worthwhile in the technology era type thing.
listening was reaaly easy for the first part and then really hard for the later sections

Muiriosa

I was thinking violence will be a big one for this year, especially with all the riots late last year in Paris. But my teacher is strongly drilling vocabulary on rascism into us - she's convinced it's up this year. But who knows, only time will tell.

belinea06

anyone doin ordinary? what came up?

Shrimp

I had mine today. (H)... the comps were a bitch.

yak_kadafi

Muiriosa wrote:

I was thinking violence will be a big one for this year, especially with all the riots late last year in Paris. But my teacher is strongly drilling vocabulary on rascism into us - she's convinced it's up this year. But who knows, only time will tell.

yup mine is doing the same

River Allow

Our French paper was ok, twas relatively easy like and we got no hints

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well id recommend learinin the note....and feminism, sport and working life....

Raphael

foogirl wrote:

anyone do their french mock yet?wats the paper like?

Pink, with words on it

foogirl

on mine was:the differences between french and irish schools,violence,something about working conditions and feminism.comprehensions werent too bad.

Gazza22

Understandably it would be hard for people to remember...

But did anybody get the Aural (Listening) exam that had: (Honours)

In the first section, about a french girl moving to ireland, the second section, a university phychologist talking about Rock'n'Roll and the major events in france in the 60's + 70's, and in the final section there was news items about a boy who swallowed something and the european constitution and britain?

If anybody recognised this, let me know

abercrombie

Gazza22 wrote:

Understandably it would be hard for people to remember...

But did anybody get the Aural (Listening) exam that had: (Honours)

In the first section, about a french girl moving to ireland, the second section, a university phychologist talking about Rock'n'Roll and the major events in france in the 60's + 70's, and in the final section there was news items about a boy who swallowed something and the european constitution and britain?

If anybody recognised this, let me know

i got that...and the little boy swallowed a plastic spoon!!!

Gazza22

He sure did!!! lol

I was asking because if it's the same Aural, then it's the same company paper.

What is the written paper like? I haven't done it yet....can you remember the ecrit? Are the comprehensions easy/difficult?

abercrombie

comprehensions are easy! there was a diary entry - your on an exchange to france and you have to talk about the differences between france and ireland! Q1 b was about the working conditions today, the animations were on feminism and on reading and there was another one about no sporting heros today! that's all i can remember right now

Gazza22

Thanks alot abercrombie!

I'm looking forward to the paper, because it doesn't seem too hard...i have stuff already prepared on Ireland, France and on working...so i should be fine! And with easy comprehensions....:)

abercrombie

good luck gazza!!

Dave Larkin

French was okay for me. I had the same paper as everyone else, it seems. Acceptable enough, it has to be said. Glad feminism came up. It's easy to write on.

The tape exam was definitely more difficult in the later sections, though.

OctavarIan

I got 65% in Higher Level French. The paper we got was very doable, and I was over the moon with my result, having been getting Ds and low Cs all year until recently.

It just makes me think, if I can increase my grade so much in a few months, what if I had been studying since 5th year? Man, 600 points would have been very achievable.:(

Gazza22

OctavarIan wrote:

Man, 600 points would have been very achievable.:(

What planet you living on?

Muiriosa

Great news for anyone who does not like French...
I did my French yesterday and I was really happy with it. If anyone has noticed I have another post on this thread from not so long ago saying how much I was dreading it... well it went great. If I can do it, anyone can! The comprehensions were handy compared to many in the exam papers, the tape was very doable and "hot topics" came up in the written sections such as feminism, violence, war and immigration.

Very happy with this exam!:)

Azureus

got my results for this exam yday-b3 and im not particularly good at french so anyone yet to do it-dont worry itll go much better than you think!!

piggy

Hey can anyone tell me is the letter informal or formal please? Or would i be better off concentrating on the note? Finally reaching the end of the mocks tomorrow,just gotta get through french.

abercrombie

i can't remember what the letter was in my paper but the other option was a diary entry...MUCH easier as you can use slang and everything as long as you put it in << >>! i say focus on that instead

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piggy wrote:

Hey can anyone tell me is the letter informal or formal please? Or would i be better off concentrating on the note? Finally reaching the end of the mocks tomorrow,just gotta get through french.

no letter came up, just a note, i was just the usual stuff ie the electrician called, wants you to ring him etc

Im really bad at french normally, but managed to get an A2 somehow in this paper!

Muiriosa

I'm actually going to do a U-turn here and say that I am now very worried about the french... My teacher says that this mock exam was far too easy too be true! I was gobsmacked! She just shattered my whole idea that I had done well and could do so again in June...
Oh, why are teachers so cruel sometimes!

Raphael

piggy wrote:

Hey can anyone tell me is the letter informal or formal please? Or would i be better off concentrating on the note? Finally reaching the end of the mocks tomorrow,just gotta get through french.

Concentrate on the diary. Comes up every time. Just be really emo and you;re flying!

Gangsta

did anyone get the french paper with the aural about a girl who takes up smoking??

Raphael

Raphael wrote:

Pink, with words on it

OLOLOLOL **** off would you and get a life.

abercrombie

Deleted User wrote:

OLOLOLOL **** off would you and get a life.

that's not very nice! you're relatively new here..you shouldn't speak to the older wiser posters like that!