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    #62
    Stevieo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭Stevieo


    Damn....I said 'pests'!


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    #63
    Jayeire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Jayeire


    ^^^something like a constant decrease in living space ... not too sure ^^^^ and pesticides lol


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    #64
    quoteunquote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭quoteunquote


    Stevieo wrote: »
    Damn....I said 'pests'!

    Me too :(


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    #65
    Stevieo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭Stevieo


    Maybe they'll take it as some form of abbreviation? ;)


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    #66
    karkar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭karkar


    The name was Paul Derksen.
    The cuckoo's living space was decreasing due to the spread of pesticides I think!


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    #67
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    ^^ are you sure about derksen? i might of actually got it right so

    I also got all the reasons said for the cuckoo but I also said emmisions from cars, could of sworn I heard that in there


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    #68
    fated2pretend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭fated2pretend


    For the first grammar question, did anyone else say Genitive?!

    Er war vielleicht ein Geschäftsmann aus einem der großen Bürohäuser.

    I know 'aus' takes Dative, but I figured that 'einem' would be 'one of' ... Now I'm not so sure I was right! :confused:


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    #69
    Stevieo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭Stevieo


    fated2pretend wrote: »
    For the first grammar question, did anyone else say Genitive?!

    Yeah, cos it's from one OF the big office blocks. Possession of the offices like...oh you Germans! Letting buildings own people.


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    #70
    LizT
    Registered Users Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    Thought it was a lovely paper, the comprehensions were easier than previous years and relative pronouns came up!


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    #71
    LizT
    Registered Users Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    titan18 wrote: »
    I said it was Frederika as she was the one who robbed the wallet and it said something that Tessa left escpaed out of the cafe before her.

    Neither of them is wrong as long as you back it up and the points are right

    I think it usually has a marking scheme and only Tessa would be acceptable as
    they made many references to how nervous Fredericka was, how she thought she would be arrested etc. Unfortuantely it's not like in that respect!


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    #72
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Stevieo wrote: »
    Yeah, cos it's from one OF the big office blocks. Possession of the offices like...oh you Germans! Letting buildings own people.

    Yes, der with a plural noun can only be Genetiv.


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    #73
    titan18
    Registered Users Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    lizt wrote: »
    I think it usually has a marking scheme and only Tessa would be acceptable as
    they made many references to how nervous Fredericka was, how she thought she would be arrested etc. Unfortuantely it's not like in that respect!


    I'm pretty sure that either will do cos it didnt say it in the question, as long as you could find relevant points in the story to back it up


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    #74
    PILOT
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭PILOT


    i dont know how so many of you understood the first comp...only one person out of a class of 12 understood it......i was tinkin it was about 2 waitresses who spilled coffee on this baker man and he was angry...blah, blah,


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    #75
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    1 spilled coffee, and 1 stole his wallet. It was about a pickpocket operation.


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    #76
    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    Nice paper. First comprehension was very easy.

    The only thing that caught me was that third section in the Ausserung. I said one should eat healthily to avoid heart attacks, obesity and something else. It was a very tough question, that shouldn't cause too many downfalls I shalln't think. The content marks may be damaged slightly, but not too seriously. Even at that, three marks in the whole gist of things is .75%. Pfft.

    A1's in German are rare, aren't they? We have a superb teacher, and yet A's seem very rare over the last few years (none last year anyway). I do French also, a much easier A1 subject.


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    #77
    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    PILOT wrote: »
    i dont know how so many of you understood the first comp...only one person out of a class of 12 understood it......i was tinkin it was about 2 waitresses who spilled coffee on this baker man and he was angry...blah, blah,

    A lot of my friends never latched onto it either. I was surprised.


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    #78
    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    That journalistic text wasn't too bad. I'd rather if they just gave a list of sentences to translate, the second comprehension is just a glorified form of that.


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    #79
    thewildone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭thewildone


    i wrote Paul Daxen or something along those lines but i know i spelt it the way i heard in english so it shud be dachsen!

    i wrote The Young Scientists Award for a national competition.

    I thought the oral was so hard:( It was like a chid just blabberin on:confused:


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    #80
    Catikins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Catikins


    I wrote dachsen at first. But he seemed to pronounce it "day-chsen" and is the letter E not pronounced "ay"? Or does an umlaut on the A make it sound like "ay"?
    Maybe i just heard it wrong.


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    #81
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    In the letter for the competition thing, I just said our school runs a competition every may and talked about the different sports played and that we won the football one last year.


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    #82
    Katerrrs
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭Katerrrs


    Catikins wrote: »
    I wrote dachsen at first. But he seemed to pronounce it "day-chsen" and is the letter E not pronounced "ay"? Or does an umlaut on the A make it sound like "ay"?

    But when the secretary (or whoever answered the phone) spelt it out, she definitely mentioned an 'r' and a 'k'...i thought she spelt out Derksen


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    #83
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Katerrrs wrote: »
    But when the secretary (or whoever answered the phone) spelt it out, she definitely mentioned an 'r' and a 'k'...i thought she spelt out Derksen
    Ya I definitely heard a 'R' and a 'K'

    But are you sure the second letter was 'E', sounded more like a 'A' to me as in 'Darksen' but there both very alike.


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    #84
    **simone**
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭**simone**


    I thought this was a pretty nice paper??

    Aural was lovely!!

    Can anyone tell me..was it the mans wallet that was stolen in the first comprehension?????


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    #85
    BJC
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭BJC


    Easiest OL paper in the history of the new German curriculum!


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    #86
    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    1huge1 wrote: »
    Ya I definitely heard a 'R' and a 'K'

    But are you sure the second letter was 'E', sounded more like a 'A' to me as in 'Darksen' but there both very alike.

    You surely know a bit about the German alphabet at this stage:

    J= yut
    K= kaw
    H=haw
    I= ee
    E= a
    A= aw

    etc etc
    It was most definitely Derksen.


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    #87
    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    **simone** wrote: »
    I thought this was a pretty nice paper??

    Aural was lovely!!

    Can anyone tell me..was it the mans wallet that was stolen in the first comprehension?????

    Yes, by the two pick-pocketers.


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    #88
    blueepurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭blueepurple


    I got derksen too. anyone else just say supermarkets for the question about where in Hassloch do they do the tests?


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    #89
    Riverperson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Riverperson


    Yeah I got Derksen as well.
    I also got pesticides for the cookoo thing.
    And I said in supermarkets for the testing thing.
    And I'm sure I ticked the 3 box in the note.


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    #90
    salman85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭salman85


    1huge1 wrote: »
    Ya I definitely heard a 'R' and a 'K'

    But are you sure the second letter was 'E', sounded more like a 'A' to me as in 'Darksen' but there both very alike.

    yeah it was darksen or derksen forgot what i wrote down

    its actully a scandanavian surname


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    #91
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Ekels wrote: »
    You surely know a bit about the German alphabet at this stage:

    J= yut
    K= kaw
    H=haw
    I= ee
    E= a
    A= aw

    etc etc
    It was most definitely Derksen.

    Hey no need to be rude, I just mixed up the A and the E in one part, it can easily happen.
    blueepurple wrote: »
    I got derksen too. anyone else just say supermarkets for the question about where in Hassloch do they do the tests?
    I said supermarkets, but just to be safe I also wrote down in that question lidl, aldi and ceebo.

    The answer has got to be there somewhere.


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