French HL Listening Comp Post Mortem

md99

hopefully this will help us discover our score.... i'll give the answers I got (and those others I can remember), any contributions are appreciated and will be added....

(Here is the paper: *****)

Section I

Q1. €700
Q2. Petrol
Meals
Q3. (a) Because her father regularly puts money into her bank account
(b) To ask her to stop spending his money (lol)

Section II

Q1. To meet new people
To get out of the house
To find solidarity
Q2. (a) Beside one's house
In the French countryside
In the Third World
(b) It went very merrily/very well (?)
They were totally 'transformed' when they returned (?)
Q3. To cater/accomodate for students on holidays
Q4. Get a driving licence
Get a little money to return to an active lifestyle
(Cant remember 3rd reason??)

Section III

Q1. (a) Quit his job
(b) Work Friday nights
Q2. He's the only goalkeeper since Phillipe broke his leg last week
They have their championship final in 15 days
Q3. Slammed the door/Left, slamming the door
Q4. Thought about/reflected on the situation, without losing his head, then tried to compromise

Didier is my hero.

Section IV

Q1. The lift in his building stopped working
The lights went out
His freezer stopped working
Q2. (a) Businesspeople/Market traders
(b) He lost 2 hours of sales
(forget 2nd reason??)
Q3. He had ice to preserve the fish
He had a freezer lorry for the fresh produce
Q4. Explained the situation to the businesspeople/market traders (?)

Section V

Q1. €64,000,000
Q2. (a) French customs officials
(b) Austria
Q3. Overcast
Risk of showers
Temperatures won't exceed 12 degrees

Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above....and fill in anything thats missing!

fonpokno

for section I q 2 did anyone hear somethin about the price of meals? or did i just resort to making things up again?

Selphie

Yeah, I got that too. That's "repas"
Yay, seems like I got an A. Woop!!!

adam_ccfc

md99 wrote:

To get out of the house
(cant remember 3rd reason????)

To discover solidarity? Could be wrong, I only have a vague recollection.

adam_ccfc

md99 wrote:

Q4. Get a driving licence
Get a little money to return to an active lifestyle
(Cant remember 3rd reason??)

Get professional training.

SamHamilton

Yeah, I wrote meals as well.

Q1. The lift in his building stopped working
The lights went out
His ______ stopped working (what was that word?? starts with a 'c')

Congélateur - freezer

Q2. (a) French customs officials

Didn't know this. Wrote French officials!

adam_ccfc

Haha nice one, I hadn't a clue so I threw down French customs cause it seemed the obvious one.

ninebeanrows

Looks like i sucked, real bad one was the 2 hours lost work i said 12 hours are you sure it was 2? Probably makes more sense maybe.

Reckon 45/80

adam_ccfc

Weathercheck wrote:

Looks like i sucked, real bad one was the 2 hours lost work i said 12 hours are you sure it was 2? Probably makes more sense maybe.

Reckon 45/80

I said 12 as well, but I could be wrong.

Mushy

I dont think I put it down, but it definately sounded like 'douze' to me. I didnt do overly well, although some of them I kinda guessed I got. Sections 1,3,5 went quite well. Gonna have a guess at 45/80 aswell, as it wasnt too good for me. My god, I know I'm close to a B, and feel this could have messed it up...damn it. Tense summer here for me, what with the Maths aswell.

md99

when said like 'deux heures', it does sound very like 'douze'.... as opposed to 'deu-heures', I've noticed this before many times... It was 2 hours, though, I'm pretty positive?

cossyx

adam_ccfc wrote:

To discover solidarity? Could be wrong, I only have a vague recollection.

Ya I got that too

Steve01

md99 wrote:

when said like 'deux heures', it does sound very like 'douze'.... as opposed to 'deu-heures', I've noticed this before many times... It was 2 hours, though, I'm pretty positive?

Yeah afaik it was 2 hours. Not a bad aural exam, hopefully I got 50+/80

blondie07

Think i got near 100%! bit of a shocker since im normally pretty crap at tape. the gods were smiling down on me today. although i put of work into tape in the last few weeks

tolosenc

Yeah, it was 2 hours. The x is pronounced if the next word starts with a vowel or silent h. I only didn't get Section II Q 2(b). Oh and the other goalkeeper's name was Phillipe.

Ha. Didier. What an aggro individual.

genericgoon

Lol for the didier penultimate one i said he broke down the door.

cabla

Think you could say...electricity was out for 2 hours??

Also it was the french border patrol...pretty much the same

colm-ccfc84

Only 3 or 4 mistakes overall I think, sweet.

md99

they'll have to mark this hard, surely? how come it was so easy this year...

eZe^

For section four and why that guy was unhappy I got = because he couldnt use his electronic weighing scales to measure fruit. or something like that!

originalcupcake

Well if those are right that gives me a boost!!
one of the only things really i got wrong was the lotto thing.. i put 64 mil down, but then i changed it to 64, thousand...

how stupid of me like, why would they be talking on the new to someone unless they won a huge sum like 64 million....:rolleyes: